When men, elves, and dwarves acquired Rings of Power. However, the Dark Lord Sauron managed to devise a ring that can dominate the rest in order to rule the Middle Earth. Later in the battle of Mordor, the alliance of Men and Elves battled him where Isildur killed Sauron by severing his finger, thus gaining access to the One Ring.
Like its previous owner and creator, the Ring ends up corrupting Isildur and turns him into a despotic, thus initiating the Third Age of Middle Earth. But during a clash between the Orcs and his army, the Ring falls into the River Anduin. After almost years, it was discovered by Smeagol, who belonged to hobbit like race, and stayed with him for five centuries while One Ring turns him into a creature known as Gollum.
That is how it landed in the hands of Frodo, who ventured to Mordor to destroy the Ring. But did he end up destroying the Ring? Did the Ring eventually corrupt him like its previous owners? There are no spoilers ahead since we are very well aware of the joy these books and movies bring. Instead, this article will focus on the humanoid army of Orcs entitled with the task of killing the Fellowship and finding the One Ring. As previously mentioned, the writer himself answered this question in a letter by acknowledging their occurrence.
Here the author has indirectly referred to the method of their breeding, which requires both female and male counterparts. Later in The Silmarillion, it is implied that they are a modified race of elves mutilated by Saruman. Since elves reproduce sexually, fans like to believe that orcs copulate as well. Hence the confirmation that female orcs are present in Middle Earth. This fact further supports the idea that female orcs were indeed present in the saga. However, the writer did not shed enough light on them throughout the whole fiction.
The one thing famous about the writing style of Mr. Tolkien is that he kept changing his mind with time. When it comes to the gender or breeding of Orcs, he never fully settled on one definitive answer. There have been some inconsistencies in this matter in the text. Their hearts were of granite, and their bodies deformed. But later in The Hobbit, he talks about how they had elven blood and were a part of their race.
The elves fell into darkness and bred with beasts, thus turning them into the malevolent race of orcs. And also i dont think that sauron has the strength to create orcs as melkor did. Perhaps the first orcs were mutated elves, but they later got the ability to procreate. Plus, if orcs are indeed immortal, it would have been relatively easy to breed them.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Hence, so far as Orc-women are concerned Tolkien appears to have been completely consistent in either describing normal sexual behavior among Orcs or implying it; and the Munby letter only agrees with what appears in the published stories. We can thus be more certain and definitive in saying there were indeed female Orcs than we can be concerning either the origins of Orcs or their ability to cross-breed with Elves and Men.
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