Tolkien comes right out and says there are female orcs...hopefully this will put an end to the discussion of that there aren't any:
Besides the quote in the Silm, which says they reproduce in the manner of the Children of Iluvatar, there is also from Letters of JRR Tolkien, called the "Munby Letter:"
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There must have been orc women. But in stories that seldom see the Orcs except as soldiers of armies in the service of evillords we naturally would not learn much about their lives. Not much was known.
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