Can half orcs breed with half-elves?

According to AD&D-era lore, elves cannot breed with orcs at all. In Dragon magazine #60 (April 1982), the article "The Half-Elven Point of View" states: Elves and orcs cannot interbreed, which is interesting since both races can breed with humanity. The Complete Book of Elves (1992), p.
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What races can orcs breed with?

Since the beginning of the First War, orcs have interbred with a number of species: mostly humans, but half-ogres and half-draenei are not unheard of. It most often refers to a half orc/human, but can also be used to refer to a half-orc half-ogre, or half-orc half-draenei.
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Can half-orcs breed?

Orcs and humans have both held the Armlet of Strength and half-orcs are capable of interbreeding with both orcs and humans and continuing to produce fertile children. Interestingly, half-orcs like half-elves can also breed with other half-orcs and have created a fairly stable half-orcrace.
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Can half-elves have children?

Half-elves may mate and breed, but will always produce the offspring of the other parent (a Half-elf/elf pairing will produce elven children, while a Half elf/human pairing will result in human children). Second generation Half-elves only result if two Half-elves marry (as is the case in Aglarond).
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How tall are female half-orcs?

Half-orcs raised among orcs and willing to live out their lives among them are usually evil. Size: Half-orcs are somewhat larger and bulkier than Humans, and they range from 5 to well over 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
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What are orc teeth called?

They're fangs. A tusk is bigger (like a mammoth's or an elephant's) and made of ivory. Boars have tusks, they don't have to be the size of elephants.
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Can orcs and elves mate?

Traditionally no, but it may be possible, if rare. According to AD&D-era lore, elves cannot breed with orcs at all. In Dragon magazine #60 (April 1982), the article "The Half-Elven Point of View" states: Elves and orcs cannot interbreed, which is interesting since both races can breed with humanity.
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Are half-elves sterile?

For elves and humans to be different species they must not produce fertile offspring. We know that half-elves are quite common but they can be interperated as hybrids, similar to mules or ligers, which are infertile.
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What is a half orc half-elf called?

Uniya is the term used in Jrusar for people in Exandria who have both elvish and orcish lineage and so are both half-elf and half-orc. Another name for uniya is elf-orcs.
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Can orcs have children LOTR?

So yes, there are female orcs. And baby orclings.
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Can humans and Hobbits mate?

By that standard, perhaps, hobbits are humans—just short ones. On the other hand, perhaps the existence of occasional half-elvish children is a magical phenomenon, and despite the even closer human-hobbit genetic relationship, no interbreeding is possible under natural conditions.
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Are Uruk Hai half orcs?

In the movies Uruk-hai are described as a crossbreed between Orcs and "goblin-men". This is presumably a reference to the Goblin-men and Half-orcs in Saruman's service, creatures that blend the traits of Orcs and Men. These Uruks are sent after the Fellowship, and their leader is Lurtz, a movie-only character.
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Why are half orcs better than orcs?

The strongest orc in a tribe would be more powerful than the strongest half-orc. The big difference between the two is that half-orcs were intended to be used by player characters. In D&D 4th edition, half-orcs gained Half-Orc Resilience, the ability to recover health when reduced to half hit points.
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How did morgoth create orcs?

They were created by the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, before the First Age and served him and later his successor in their quest to dominate Middle-earth. Before Oromë first found the Elves at Cuiviénen, Melkor kidnapped some of them and cruelly deformed them, twisting them into the first Orcs.
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Are there baby orcs?

While there was no mention of female Orcs in any of the books, Tolkien did later say that they did exist. We see proof of offsping as Gollum devours a young Orc child in The Hobbit. As disturbing as the thought might be, in the Silmarillion it is said that Orcs "breed after the manner of Elves and Men".
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Do half-elves have Subraces?

The Half-Elf Drow subrace is great because it provides a couple of useful Warlock spells and won't make you burn any of your precious slots for them.
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Are half-elves Fey?

Half-elves are a versatile people, able to fit into the societies of both of their parents. They also share their elven parent's fey ancestry, and thus are resistant to being beguiled, and magic cannot put them to sleep.
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Do elves like half-elves?

Relations. Half-elves do well among both elves and humans, and they also get along well with dwarves, gnomes, and halflings. They have elven grace without elven aloofness and human energy without human boorishness.
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Why is there no half dwarf?

Biological incompatibility is the first and foremost reason that such half-races cannot exist. Simply put, dwarves, gnomes, and others just aren't compatible with other races, even humans.
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Can humans and Halflings mate?

There is one interesting exception, humans and halflings. While they are fertile with each other, such a pairing will only produce one or the other race. This may be because they are so similar that there can be no half breed race.
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Do female Orcs have tusks?

Females have antlers, but not as prominently as males. So orcs aren't always that smart in fantasy lit. And there may actually be a little bit a of a biological reason for that.
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How are Orcs made from mud?

In short, orcs aren't made from mud but rather incubated in it. According to Tolkien's extensive backstory, the first orcs were fallen elves, corrupted and tortured into these horrific new forms.
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Do Orcs tusks grow back?

Tusks grow constantly in all animals that have them so yes. A broken tusk would continue to grow as long as the root in the jaw was still alive.
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Are all half-orcs green?

Most half-orcs have grayish or greenish skin, jutting jaws, prominent teeth, a sloping forehead and coarse body hair, which causes them to stand out from their human brethren, though their canines are noticeably smaller than a full-blooded orc's tusks.
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