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Old 09-16-2003, 11:19 AM   #13
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Your probably right. The two terms are more or less synonymous. Bigger and smaller, I guess, is really how I kinda sorted them out.<P>Really it's just Tolkien deciding to change the term he used. In The Hobbit he called them goblins but in LotR he called them orcs.<P>H.C.<p>[ September 16, 2003: Message edited by: HCIsland ]
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