A Question of Loyalty

[LadyBrooke]

Well I looked at the threads and just as quickly decided to not get involved in the canon debate, because what does it really matter? We each love Tolkien's books for different reasons and that is going to affect what we consider canon. When we're trying to skewer each other over matters of what is canon we might have become just a little bit too obsessed.

On to more related matters.

Originally Posted by Hakon

There is also the idea that maybe they were bred by not corrupting the souls of a species but breeding with that species. I think that maybe a regular Orc could have raped a human woman and from that some kind of half Orc was born.

That's what I always thought happened. If Luthien and Beren, Arwen and Aragorn, Idril and Tour could all have kids, there's no reason why human woman + orc male couldn't reproduce, as nausated as it makes me when I think about it. After all we have to remember the man in Bree who was said to look somewhat like an orc, implying that there were half-breeds that looked more orcish and others that looked more human.