From: mr@sandman.net   
      
   In article , Bill O'Meally wrote:   
      
   > On 2019-07-19 18:47:53 +0000, Michael F. Stemper said:   
      
   > > Michael F. Stemper:   
   > > 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.   
      
   Silmarillion chapter 3:   
      
   "For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of   
   Iluvatar"   
      
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