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<img src="http://www.barrowdowns.com/images/posticons/sting.jpg" align=absmiddle> Re: Goblins=Orcs??
Tolkien wrote The Hobbit before he decided to relate it to Silm. based stories I think. Goblins very well could be a type of orc also, maybe a smaller type. But the best way to look at it is that Bilbo didn't really know what an orc was, being relatively shut out from the rest of the world. So when he wrote the Red Book, he called them goblins instead orcs. Later on when he and Frodo found out, there was a shift from goblin to orc, but they didn't go back and correct other entries.
Thus even as Eru spoke to us shall beauty not before conceived be brought into Eä, and evil be good to have been.</p>
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