From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 20/07/2019 06.11, Bill O'Meally wrote:   
   > On 2019-07-19 18:47:53 +0000, Michael F. Stemper said:   
   >   
   >> We know that Sauron made orcs by somehow twisting and perverting some   
   >> elves. After that, were they self-propagating? I.e., were there female   
   >> orcs -- down in Nurn maybe, or out in Rhûn?   
   >>   
   >> I'll admit that JRRT doesn't explicitly state the genders of the orcs   
   >> that we see up close and personal in tLotR, but Gorbag and Snaga always   
   >> struck me as male.   
   >   
   > IDHTBIFOM, but I recall in one of the _Letters_ that Tolkien states that   
   > orcs breed sexually just like any Man, Elf, Dwarf, etc.   
      
   Okay, thanks.   
      
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