Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26863727-20161003140924/@comment-26863727-20161004165135

Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali wrote:

Aramirtheranger wrote: In the books, Orcs have sex. Presumably with female Orcs. They aren't dug out of the ground like evil potatoes. No, the books don't say anything really on the subject. They're not made as the films suggest, but how exactly they're born is another issue entirely. Sorry, not the books. I'm pretty sure Tolkien mentioned in a letter or something that they "reproduced as the Children of Illuvatar did", or something like that.