Sex Amongst the Maiar (and the Other Beings in Arda)

[Kuruharan]

Originally Posted by Lalwendë

1. It suggests that maybe it was because of Melkor's great lust that he became very much bound to his physical form. He also did a lot of 'begetting' with the creation and mastery of several races and creatures. Note Tolkien says 'begetting or conceiving' which might suggest more than just the standard reproduction.

Perhaps we have finally answered the age old question of where orcs came from...at least in part.

It is kind of disturbing if you think about it from any number of perspectives whether you consider orcs to be of elvish, mannish, or bestial stock. It puts the "torments" that he inflicted on the progenitors of the race into a whole new light.

*goes to bathe brain in acid*