From: michael.stemper@gmail.com   
      
   On 24/07/2019 01.32, Sandman wrote:   
   > 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"   
      
   Thanks for that. With the chapter, I was able to find it. I also   
   discovered that what I claimed "we know" is wrong. It wasn't Sauron,   
   it was the Emperor^W Melkor.   
      
      
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