Orc Slash

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I knew that I couldn't be the only one on the planet to contemplate the existence of LOTR orc slash, so I Googled and found, among others:

So Wrong
http://elektra.slashcity.tv/orcslash/fiction.html

There you may select stories based on species or character pairing, but one thing disturbs me:

All the orcs have distinctly human genitalia and human sexual responses. Even the fan art depicts orcs with human pornstar anatomy, as if they had been circumcised in infancy by a gentle moyel.

Call me a pervert, but I imagine something entirely different about orcs below the belt, and it ain't pretty.

Anyway, this is an offshoot of discussions I have with my equally geeky spouse about the origins of orcs. We've pored over THE SILMARILLION and the HISTORY OF MIDDLE EARTH volumes to pinpoint their specific provenance, but JRRT isn't very specific beyond that they're perversions of extant creatures, corrupted by Sauron or Melkor or Morgoth.

Geeky fan speculation and references
http://www.thetolkienwiki.org/wiki.cgi?The__Origin__of__Orcs
http://tolkien.cro.net/orcs/origin.html

The movies depict them with mannish, porcine, canine, simian, and even scatological geneologies, depending on whether they're light-tolerant or light-intolerant orcs.

Anyway, I was looking for orc fic that attempts to explain how orcs reproduce, the true depth of their sentience, and whether or not they have souls. Instead, I found a bunch of B&D/S&M fic in orc costumes.

Now this begs the question: is my first foray into writing Middle Earth fanfic going to be orc slash?



Flying Viking Kittens Want to Take You to a Gay Bar
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Comments

More Geeky fan speculation on Orc Reproduction ;)

[(Anonymous)]

Now the Orcs of the later wars, after the escape of Melkor-
Morgoth and his return to Middle-earth, were not 'spirits', nor
phantoms, but living creatures, capable of speech and some
crafts and organization; or at least capable of learning these
things from higher creatures and from their Master. They bred
and multiplied rapidly, whenever left undisturbed. So far as can
be gleaned from the legends that have come down to us from
our earliest days,(2) it would seem that the Quendi had never yet
encountered any Orcs of this kind before the coming of Orome
to Cuivienen.

...

Moreover, the Orcs continued to live and breed and to carry
on their business of ravaging and plundering after Morgoth was
overthrown. They had other characteristics of the Incarnates
also. They had languages of their own, and spoke among
themselves in various tongues according to differences of breed
that were discernible among them. They needed food and drink,
and rest, though many were by training as tough as Dwarves in
enduring hardship. They could be slain, and they were subject
to disease; but apart from these ills they died and were not
immortal, even according to the manner of the Quendi; indeed
they appear to have been by nature short-lived compared with
the span of Men of higher race, such as the Edain.
This last point was not well understood in the Elder Days. For
Morgoth had many servants, the oldest and most potent of
whom were immortal, belonging indeed in their beginning to
the Maiar; and these evil spirits like their Master could take on
visible forms. Those whose business it was to direct the Orcs
often took Orkish shapes, though they were greater and more
terrible.(4) Thus it was that the histories speak of Great Orcs or
Orc-captains who were not slain, and who reappeared in battle
through years far longer than the span of the lives of Men.*(5)
Finally, there is a cogent point, though horrible to relate. It
became clear in time that undoubted Men could under the
domination of Morgoth or his agents in a few generations be
reduced almost to the Orc-level of mind and habits; and then
they would or could be made to mate with Orcs, producing new
breeds, often larger and more cunning. There is no doubt that
long afterwards, in the Third Age, Saruman rediscovered this,
or learned of it in lore, and in his lust for mastery committed
this, his wickedest deed: the interbreeding of Orcs and Men,


JRR Tolkien in "Myths Transformed", published in HoMeX p. 417f