JamesV
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Note: I understand if this needs the Careful Now tag. For me this is a question about a creative decision compared to canon, and not the motivations behind it, which I actively refuse to speculate on, beyond it being something Amazon thinks will draw viewer interest
So, I guess Amazon's ME orcs come in the female variety, link
Oddly the Variety article doesn't have a pic, but I believe Twitter/IGN came through,
What's off to me isn't the idea of a female orc per se, just that I was kinda confident Tolkien's orc were genderless/sexless? While they are descended from elves, they've been twisted and distorted by Morgoth, removing much of their identity aside from their subservience to the dark powers. I haven't read in while, but I had the impression orcs are spawned in pits, or some other alternative way. Ultimately it's a non-troversy to me beyond the possibility it's another divergence from the source materials.
So, I guess Amazon's ME orcs come in the female variety, link
Oddly the Variety article doesn't have a pic, but I believe Twitter/IGN came through,
What's off to me isn't the idea of a female orc per se, just that I was kinda confident Tolkien's orc were genderless/sexless? While they are descended from elves, they've been twisted and distorted by Morgoth, removing much of their identity aside from their subservience to the dark powers. I haven't read in while, but I had the impression orcs are spawned in pits, or some other alternative way. Ultimately it's a non-troversy to me beyond the possibility it's another divergence from the source materials.