Back to Middle-earth Month

Re: parthenogenic orcs. Yep. What's truly amazing is that Dr. Gee is a paleontologist who is a sr. editor of biological sciences for Nature. I tend to think that Gee was just flexing his speculative life scientist's muscles and fooling about with the idea, given that the multiplying after the Children of Iluvatar bit is mentioned in The Letters of JRRT. So the possible lack of the HoMe/Myths Transformed texts at the time of the publication of The Science of Middle-earth is not an excuse.