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Orc is not an English word. It occurs in one or two places but is usually translated goblin (or hobgoblin for the larger kinds
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-Preface to The Hobbit
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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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