Middle-Earth | Orcs

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🧟 ORCS

The orcs (sometimes: orks) are fictional race of humanoid monsters often found in works of modern fantasy.

In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, orcs appear as a brutish, aggressive, ugly, and malevolent race of monsters, contrasting with the benevolent Elves. He described their origins inconsistently, including as a corrupted race of elves, or bred by the Dark Lord Morgoth, or turned to evil in the wild. Tolkien's orcs serve as a conveniently wholly evil enemy that could be slaughtered without mercy.

The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability" reasons.

Orcs are of human shape, and of varying size. They are depicted as ugly and filthy, with a taste for human flesh. They are fanged, bow-legged and long-armed. Most are small and avoid daylight.

By the late Third Age, a new breed of orc had emerged from Mordor attacking Osgiliath, the Uruk-hai, larger and more powerful. Later, they were garrisoned also in Isengard serving Saruman, whose Uruks were no longer afraid of daylight. Orcs eat meat, including the flesh of Men, and may indulge in cannibalism: in The Two Towers, Grishnákh, an orc from Mordor, claims that the Isengard orcs eat orc-flesh.

Half-orcs appear in The Lord of the Rings, created by interbreeding of orcs and Men;they were able to go in sunlight.The "sly Southerner" in The Fellowship of the Ring looks "more than half like a goblin";similar but more orc-like hybrids appear in The Two Towers "man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed."

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