Hobgoblins are apparently a larger sect of orcs. More primitive, less intelligent, stronger than most Misty mountain orcs, but not as strong as uruk-hai, while lacking in intellect. Hobgoblin technically means "big goblin".
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"What mortal feels not awe/Nor trembles at our name,
Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime/Fixed by the eternal law.
For old our office, and our fame,"
-Aeschylus, Song of the Furies
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