Editing Orc (section)

===Direct Adaptations===
For the most part the Lord of the Rings movies created by Peter Jackson have done a reasonable interpretation of the orcs from the books, though they have cranked their aggression up a bit, uglied them to a great degree, often used the green skin-tones that were popularized later, made them much taller across the board, and ''possibly'' confirmed females. No females are pointed out, but some actresses that played Orcs have insisted their characters (who are usually killed by Elf acrobatics in the same scene or just screech at the camera and shoot an arrow) are female; Jackson has never confirmed or denied this but still made a point of including these interviews on the special features sections of the home release of the movies. Then again, he also put Elves at Helms Deep... 

There's also a rather Grimdark theory akin to Daemonculaba regarding the breeding of the Uruk-Hai from mutating regular newborn Half-Orc infants. The "mud" seen in the movie has been filled with Dark Magic/Essence of Sauron, and the blood of sacrificed humans. Infant Half-Orcs are chosen after being selectively bred, torn from their human mothers' grasp (and possibly womb), and tossed heartlessly into the muck as they wail, crying and desperate for the return of their parent's love. They sink into the bubbling muck, where it serves as a sort of incubator, forcing the half-blood orcling to grow up in a matter of days, maybe even hours, instead of the years it would take the half-orc to normally grow up. Eventually, Snaga are forced to pull the cocooned body of the now Uruk-Hai out of the muck. They have been infused with Sauron's dark will, and are completely brainwashed to his cause by his will. This theory basically paints Saruman as being fucking Doctor Mengele.

Notably, the 2014 game Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, while mostly known for being "actually pretty good" for what was essentially an Assassin's Creed clone, also showed Orc culture. Essentially, they were a naturally evil race ruled by a hierarchy of tribe chiefs who use grimdark Klingon politics (although there was references made to Sauron possibly using his terrible magical psychic might to force them to be evil, along with references made in the first game of an Orc who was giving information to humans having Flies that are supposedly aspects of Sauron's dark spirit crawling up his ear whilst he slept and buzzing and gnawing within, driving said Orc mad); meaning whoever could knock around his fellow Uruks became boss, and a boss who could honorably duel, assassinate, or otherwise neutralize his peers climbed the ladder. While they were mostly the Chaotic Evil monsters Tolkien didn't want to portray them as, this didn't mean that they weren't interesting. Their mindset was that when they weren't focusing on eliminating other tribes, most Uruks just wanted to put in a hard day's work (of bossing around human slaves or Snaga), made small talk, had drinking songs, and at the end of the day just go have a drink with his mates. With the mental influence of Celebrimbor's shade on them they are rendered neutral in terms of good/evil, as Sauron's hold on their mind has been weakened, but will still fight and kill each other for promotions; this is generally interpreted as mind control, although a large number of Orcs following you without Celebrimbor in the sequel suggests it may also be you reducing Sauron's influence on them and allowing them to make their own moral choices.