orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. They are a corrupted race of elves, either bred that way by Morgoth, or turned savage in that manner, according to the Silmarillion. Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasy fiction, is a race of humanoid monsters, which he also calls " goblin".Įspecially 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. For specific characters and other uses, see Orc (disambiguation) and Ork (disambiguation).Īn orc (sometimes spelled ork / ɔːr k/ orcish), in J. This article is about the fictional humanoid monster.
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