| Re: what are orc creatures ??
Hello Aes,
I can feel myself being sucked back to my teenage years..........
I think it's fair to say that orcs and goblins have ended up as different things, but a lot of that is down to role playing games. Perhaps you disagree, but I think that Tolkien always intended them to be the same thing (and it's really up to him, as "orc" was his invention, even if the RPG's never credit him with it).
It's been a long time since I read it, but I'm pretty sure that orc and goblin are expressly used as synonyms in "The Hobbit."
In LOTR, the goblins of the Misty Mountains become into the orcs of Moria, but essentially they are the same thing.
I think I'd be very wary of any author who used "orc" in their book. It'd be a bit like using "Morlock" - a word only really relevant in the context of the book for which it was originally coined. Goblins, trolls and ogres are different, as they belong to a common mythology and aren't the invention of one author.
Time for a lie down!
Peter |