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Where the Orks Are

It's possible to make Orks (or Orcs, or however your copyright lawyer advises you to spell it) something a bit more interesting than either Tolkien or Gygax did. And that's probably a good thing, depending on what kind of campaign / novel you're crafting.

(See also: mob goons, tong thugs, Nazi guards, security bots, pretty much anything that rhymes with "cannon fodder" for your protagonists on the way to the Boss Fight.)




What the Orks Want
Do the Orks have a greater reason for their existence? Or, are they merely story filler like so many fantasy packing peanuts surrounding the nugget of the interesting stuff?

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5 thoughts on “Where the Orks Are”

  1. I think there were some intimations of that when Merry & Pippen were being transported by the orcs near Isengard: we saw orcs as unsympathetic but definitely characters with personalities and motivations.

  2. Well, Tolkien did have Orcs with names, and with the rivalries between the Uruk-hai vs the Sauron-allied Orcs. But, at most, they didn't come across as anything more than bloodthirsty hoodlums at most, loyal (from fear) to their bosses, paid off in man-flesh.

  3. True, but it's not like the dwarves or ents had a lot of depth, either. In The Hobbit, the goblins were something like subhuman. By The Two Towers, they were at least similar in intelligence and complexity to other races — which, given his general account of their background, that they were descendents of warped elves, is fitting. Does make me wonder if there were any rebel orc communities out there.

  4. +John Bump I suspect not, simply because Orcs were fundamentally corrupted, in origin and influence. The only variations we saw in them were which vices they emphasized.

    Now, that said, there's not a lot of complexity in any of the races in LotR (esp. those with less face time, like the Ents or the Pukel-Men). The elves, dwarves, hobbits, and humans are largely archetypes, distinguishable perhaps if you go on a long quest with them, but character sketches at best. But, then, Tolkien wasn't writing character sketches as much as mythology (or, in The Hobbit, a fairy tale).

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