"Uruk-hai Mother" by Dara ´Weirdlet´ Williamson

Well I think it is a neat picture. Very nicely done.

Lovely! Its so Little! I Love how you show the more sensitive side of Orcs! or Uruks!

I could have SWORN, that is. Wow, I wonder what is on my mind?

Fascinating. I could have sword that the Orcs and Uruk-hai were gone after the War of the Ring. I will have to look into this.

Me and a couple a rpg buddies o' mine once started thinking about how the orcs reproduced. We came to a staggering conclusion: since Tolkien never mentioned orc females, or told that the orcs were continuously created (the phrase "his orcs have multiplied" would - in my mind - seem to indicate copulation and birth instead of some strange magical creation), we came to the conclusion that the orcs who kept on comin' and gettin' slaughtered had to be both male and female!

I don't mean hermaphrodites or anythin', but that there were female and male orcs (after all, yeh never get to see what's under all that armor). And since orcs are cannibals and a race bred only for war, I don't think they would've had a second thought about sending "the weaker sex" to the battle field. So I don't think this picture is that far off from what the Uruks might've been up to after the war (though I don't think they would've been as cuddly with their kids ). Great picture anyhow, and kudos!

Aww...I love this picture. I'm a big fan of orcs and I really love the Uruk-hai. I think that there has to be some little spark of good in them...They can't be ALL bad. : ) I love the little baby. He/She is so cute!! ^_^ Nice work!

Sorry to rant, but my personal opinion is that uruks are cloned/mudspawned, but that that is unnatural and was only done to create the uruk-hai quickly for the war, but that normally orcs/goblins etc. Would reproduce as normal. Cool picture anyway

Dara 'Weirdlet' Williamson replies: "^^ Exactly my idea. There was a long and slightly unplotted fic I had going about this, where a brood of female Uruk-hai, cut off from their master at the end of the wars and mixed with a larger pack of males, discover the normal way of creating life- while still not understanding gender. It didn't go anywhere, but I liked it while I was writing it."

Hey, the story idea sounds cool! Could I read some of what you've written?
Chris
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I can't remember where i heard it or read it but i learnt that uruk-hai are a cross bread of orcs and elves i think it was gandalf said it some time during one of the films, I don't however know how they are merged to make the uruk-hai, i just know wot they are made up from.

Tolkien said: For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Elves or the Man.