They’ve been established to have been lesser creations of a fallen Valar – whasshisname, Morgoth I think? Maybe they eat raw minerals, potash and phosphorus ore, garnished with raw cinders.
I’m with you Mitch. It seems that a creature with Orc teeth, Orc arms, Orc weaponry would most likely be eating anything less powerful than an Orc! But if they could eat ‘raw’ minerals, wouldn’t they pass up maggoty bread and find a simple rock slide looking for the tastiest rocks or look for a bend in a creek bed, where minerals would collect?
Cinders can be made anywhere dry enough for a fire.
Some people have far too much free time on their hands…
This may seem like a trivial issue, but what are you going to do when you’re out mowing your lawn some nice day and a troop of hungry orcs attack your rose bushes? Huh. Tell me that. Whadareyagonnado?
Actually the means of support for Mordor is pretty clearly described in LotR – human slaves working the lands around Lake Nurnen. The much tougher question is where the Elves’ food came from.
As elves live in the woods and seem to be avid archers, my guess is Bambi and family are what’s for dinner.
I think everyone is making a sustainability model. This should be a North Korea style model. Sustainability is not factored in because all farmers and Orcs are expendable. Slave farming can be productive if the farmers are aware that failing to present your quota will result in you becoming the substituted sustenance. Failing that the Orcs seem to be born out of nothing so they are a constant food source on their own.
Whatever they ate, their salt and fat intake were closely regulated, and their beverages came only in 16-ounce containers.
They ate elves, the other white meat.
Sometimes the question is its own answer.
But how do they breed? Ever hear of or see an Orc Woman?
As far as diet, they seemed pretty omnivorious according to the books. Opportunstic eaters of carrion, fresh kill and such.
Tolkein never mentioned them once…..and I have read the Silmarillion once, the Children of Hurn, the Lost Tales and read the LOTR and the Hobbit at least a dozen times each.
Hobbits? Smaller orcs?
They’ve been established to have been lesser creations of a fallen Valar – whasshisname, Morgoth I think? Maybe they eat raw minerals, potash and phosphorus ore, garnished with raw cinders.
I’m with you Mitch. It seems that a creature with Orc teeth, Orc arms, Orc weaponry would most likely be eating anything less powerful than an Orc! But if they could eat ‘raw’ minerals, wouldn’t they pass up maggoty bread and find a simple rock slide looking for the tastiest rocks or look for a bend in a creek bed, where minerals would collect?
Cinders can be made anywhere dry enough for a fire.
Some people have far too much free time on their hands…
This may seem like a trivial issue, but what are you going to do when you’re out mowing your lawn some nice day and a troop of hungry orcs attack your rose bushes? Huh. Tell me that. Whadareyagonnado?
Actually the means of support for Mordor is pretty clearly described in LotR – human slaves working the lands around Lake Nurnen. The much tougher question is where the Elves’ food came from.
As elves live in the woods and seem to be avid archers, my guess is Bambi and family are what’s for dinner.
I think everyone is making a sustainability model. This should be a North Korea style model. Sustainability is not factored in because all farmers and Orcs are expendable. Slave farming can be productive if the farmers are aware that failing to present your quota will result in you becoming the substituted sustenance. Failing that the Orcs seem to be born out of nothing so they are a constant food source on their own.
Whatever they ate, their salt and fat intake were closely regulated, and their beverages came only in 16-ounce containers.
They ate elves, the other white meat.
Sometimes the question is its own answer.
But how do they breed? Ever hear of or see an Orc Woman?
As far as diet, they seemed pretty omnivorious according to the books. Opportunstic eaters of carrion, fresh kill and such.
Tolkein never mentioned them once…..and I have read the Silmarillion once, the Children of Hurn, the Lost Tales and read the LOTR and the Hobbit at least a dozen times each.