Can humans breed with orcs?

Orcs and humans can interbreed, and in this union create half-orcs. Humans and orcs have been enemies for decades and half-orcs represent something both races prefer not to think about.

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Can humans and elves interbreed?

Elves and humans have held the Armlet of Strength and half-elves are capable of interbreeding with both elves and humans and continuing to produce fertile children. Interestingly, half-elves can also breed with other half-elves and have created a fairly stable half-elf race.

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What is the Uruk-hai cross breed?

The Truth of the Uruk-hai

The Uruk-hai are simple crossbreeds of human and orc, equivalent to a corrupted version of half-elves. There are two subspecies: Morgul Uruk-hai, bred by Morgoth and Sauron, similar to orcs but much larger and stronger.

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Can an orc breed with an elf?

Elves and orcs cannot interbreed, which is interesting since both races can breed with humanity.

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How were the Uruk-hai bred?

History. The Uruk-hai were created by Sauron late in the Third Age. There are suggestions that the Uruk-hai created by the fallen wizard was the result of crossbreeding Orcs with Men or with Goblin-men.

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Why can't Nazgul cross water?

The Nazgûl, as servants of Sauron, feared the power of Ulmo, and believed that some of his power might still flow through the waters of Middle-earth, hence why they avoided it as much as they could.

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Why did Saruman breed Uruk-hai?

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. In The Lord of the Rings movie trilogy by Peter Jackson, Saruman appeared to believe that the Uruks were his invention. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf mentions Saruman breeding the Uruks to possess the traits of "Orcs and goblin men" without the two races' weaknesses.

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How did Saruman breed orcs?

In the movie, Saruman says that the first Dark Lord bred the Orcs from captured Elves. He does not explain how Elves could become so corrupted as to turn into Orcs.

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Are there girl orcs?

ANSWER: Yes, there are female Orcs in Middle-earth. The Lord of the Rings does not specifically mention female orcs but their presence is implied.

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Are orcs technically elves?

Especially in Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, orcs appear as a brutish, aggressive, ugly, and malevolent race of monsters, contrasting with the benevolent Elves. They are a corrupted race of elves, either bred that way by Morgoth, or turned savage in that manner, according to the Silmarillion.

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What are half breed Orcs Lord of the Rings?

Half-orcs were servants of the wizard Saruman, who sought to control Middle-earth during the War of the Ring in the late Third Age. They were servants of Saruman, possibly bred from the same hybridization process as the fighting Uruk-hai.

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What are Orcs bred with?

In The Book of Lost Tales, it is said that Orcs were "bred from the heats and slimes of the earth" through the sorcery of Morgoth.

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Are there half breeds in Lord of the Rings?

Most often referred to as "Hobbits", they are often also referred to as "Halflings" or "Little People" by Men and/or other races. The hobbits are by far the most common of the halfling races and are the most intertwined and integrated with the Big People.

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Can humans and hobbits breed?

By that standard, perhaps, hobbits are humans—just short ones. On the other hand, perhaps the existence of occasional half-elvish children is a magical phenomenon, and despite the even closer human-hobbit genetic relationship, no interbreeding is possible under natural conditions.

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Can I touch my elf mate?

Santa advises that no family member touch their Elf on the Shelf, but he does describe a few rare instances when an adult may use tongs or potholders to help an elf in an urgent situation. Parents: read on to learn about special, few and far between cases where emergency help will be required.

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Are half-elves sterile?

For elves and humans to be different species they must not produce fertile offspring. We know that half-elves are quite common but they can be interperated as hybrids, similar to mules or ligers, which are infertile.

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Are half-orcs human?

Half-orcs, colloquially known as half-tusks in Purskul and Zehoarastria of Amn, were humanoids born of both human and orc ancestry by a multitude of means. Having the combined physical power of their orcish ancestors with the agility of their human ones, half-orcs were formidable individuals.

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Are there any half-orcs?

Half-orcs or "Goblin-men" were spies and warriors used by Saruman during the time he sought power in Middle-earth in the late Third Age. They were probably bred from the same hybridization process which bred the Uruk-hai. Only once are they mentioned in the books.

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Are there white orcs?

He is a white-skinned Orc, known as the Pale Orc or Azog the Defiler. According to Balin, he is from Gundabad.

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Is Aragorn half elf?

Aragorn is not half Elf, although he is a descendant of Elros, who is half Elf (and the brother of Elrond, the half-Elf who raised him), which explains why Aragorn's life span is unusually long.

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Is Gimli the last dwarf?

Myth: Gimli is the last dwarf.

Though Gimli has no children, he is not the last Dwarf of Middle-earth. After the fall of Sauron, his people continued to thrive in the Lonely Mountain. Gimli made his home in Rohan, in the Glittering Caves of Aglarond, and many of his kinsfolk came with him.

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How were Elves turned into Orcs?

The first Dark Lord Melkor took hostage some Elves from Cuiviénen. He tortured them, beat them, and broke their bodies into the first deformed and twisted beings known as Orcs.

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Why are Uruk-hai born in mud?

In short, orcs aren't made from mud but rather incubated in it. According to Tolkien's extensive backstory, the first orcs were fallen elves, corrupted and tortured into these horrific new forms.

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Why did they cut Saruman's death?

Jackson's reasons for cutting Saruman's demise were twofold; firstly, to pare down a film that was already testing the limits of how long a person can comfortably sit on a theater seat, and secondly because of the narrative flow.

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Was AZOG an Uruk-hai?

He was a great orc chieftan that was killed by Dain at the Battle of Azanulbizar.

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