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Originally Posted by Huinesoron
I don't think there's much grounds for the 'no female orcs' theory
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To take it further, there is in fact quite hard evidence of the existence of female Orcs from the pen of Professor Tolkien himself, as seen in the 'Munby Letter', quoted at the Tolkien Gateway here:
http://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Mrs._...1_October_1963
Professor Tolkien told his correspondent that
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There must have been orc-women. But in stories that seldom if ever see the Orcs except as soldiers of armies in the service of the evil lords we naturally would not learn much about their lives. Not much was known
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