Rachel Port
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Women have immune reactions even to their own fully human embryos at first. I wonder if Saruman also experimented with ways to suppress this.
Orcwives probably are used to a lot and quite tough, human women... i forbid myself to think about it.
@Odola
Sure but we are told Dunland is a little fertile country... though i think of the other portions of Enedhwaith and even cardolan.. can't just have been barren wilderness everywhere, even if a lot may have been contaminated after the war of the elves against sauron and the numenoreans and the wars against angmar (there seems to be a quasi arthurian "wasteland" thing going on... no king, no fertile land!) , even steppe or prairie can be used.
Women have immune reactions even to their own fully human embryos at first.
Wild carrots could be enough for orcs to eat imho.
Wild? Far too much expanditure.Tubers can be mass-grown, just like fungi.Saruman could handle that as a scientist.Also works underground, still they need probably fertilizers, herbicides... but i don't think Saruman has any remorse about neither genetic manipulation nor chemicals.
If the uruk hai were being bred somewhere other than Orthanc, whether in the mountains or over in Dunland, then there should be a bunch of them left over after the War of the Ring. Maybe all of the ones who were of fighting age went off to battle at Helm's Deep, but what do you do about a whole city of orc-moms and orc-kids? Do these just get killed off? Or do they get integrated into Rohirrim society? Frodo and company return to Rivendell on the west side of the mountains after the main action, so if the orc breeding was in Dunland they presumably went right through that region. There are just so many problems when we dig into this.
Bruce