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I was wondering, I never read the books for lord of the rings but when I was watching the movie I noticed that Saruman's urukai looked like they came out of sack like objects and I was wondering how they were made

Movie-"cooking in the ground" they're freaking Greenskins!

Haha so are they "upgraded" goblins?



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Or orks

From the Lord of the Rings wikia:

Tolkien never mentioned female orcs, but in The Silmarillion he wrote that "the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar;" and that the wise [Elves] of Eressëa believed that Melkor had created them before the First Age by breeding Elves he had captured and corrupted, by means of torture and mutilation. In The Lord of the Rings, Treebeard tells Merry and Pippin that Orcs were mere attempts by Morgoth to copy the Elves, which would seem to contradict the account in The Silmarillion, but then J.R.R. Tolkien mentioned on several occasions that none of his characters were omniscient. Therefore, Treebeard's account of the creation of the orcs might have simply been his understanding of it, or he might have been right about it and the ancient Elves of Eressëa might have been wrong.

And Tolkein used orc and goblin interchangeably.

The Uruk-hai's birthing was a little bit of creative license, but it doesn't contradict the canon orc reproduction.

Orcs "multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar", which really just says they reproduce sexually.

If we are to take the movies as canon, we can surmise that orcs lay eggs or have some other sort of external incubation method(a fitting result for Morgoth's perverted twisting of elves, given his attachment to spiders and other nasty things)

Alternatively, they have a "normal" pregnancy but its short and the young are born underdeveloped. The young are then secluded in gestation pits where they grow to adulthood. Allowing for the "mother" to conceive more children in a rapid time period(maybe once a week instead of once a year)

As for the lack of "female" orcs, we can assume they either have no secondary sexual characteristics(meaning females and males are visually identical) OR that orcs are hermaphroditic(another fitting perversion of the elven form for Morgoth to create). This gives us 2 ways of sexual reproduction which account for "lack of females". The third option is that female orcs are more like wasp or bee queens that are overlarge and remain in one location for the sole purpose of breeding, spawning out hundreds of offspring at a time.

I don't hold to the third theory for several reasons. If it was the answer, Orcs would have a significantly hard time spreading out because their females would be difficult to move over large distances(and easy targets for the good guys) and it would be fairly easy to eradicate specific populations. You'd just need to find the location of the females and lead a strike team in to kill them. Then no more orcs.

Ork fanfiction has just gotten VERY terrifying.

What if the large female orks produced spores and blew them all over the planet

Then you'd have orcs randomly appearing everywhere.

And what are these orks you speak of? We are talking about orcs my good man!

 Grey Templar wrote:
And what are these orks you speak of? We are talking about orcs my good man!

I blame 40K.

Yes in that comment I was reffering to orks in my origional question it was orcs I was referring to


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Yes in that comment I was reffering to orks in my origional question it was orcs I was referring to

 Alienoid wrote:
I was wondering, I never read the books for lord of the rings but when I was watching the movie I noticed that Saruman's urukai looked like they came out of sack like objects and I was wondering how they were made

Well, it's like this.

When a mummy orc and a daddy orc hate each other very very much.....

Orcs all are born in the same way.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Asspull