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First name the four, the free peoples Eldest of all, the elf-children Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses Ent the earthborn, old as mountains Man the mortal, master of horses. After encountering the hobbits Merry and Pippin, he consents that hobbits are a fifth free people, adding a fifth line, "Half-grown hobbits, the hole-dwellers". [T 8]
Nazarn (NAZZ-arn) is a half-orc hero-god of formal, ritualistic, and public combat. His symbol is a chain wrapped around a short sword. He appears as an older half-orc with a strongly orcish appearance. His hair is gray, on its way to becoming completely white. He carries his short sword, Crowdpleaser.
The orc appears in the first edition Monster Manual (1977), where it is described as a fiercely competitive bully, a tribal creature often living underground. [6]The mythology and attitudes of the orcs are described in detail in Dragon #62 (June 1982), in Roger E. Moore's article, "The Half-Orc Point of View".
The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability ...
There's been some dispute over wither or not if the Uruk-Hai are jsut simply better bred orcs or Half-Man, Half-Orc. The Tolkien Encyclopedia seperates Uruk-Hai and Half-orcs, and may be of different orgins. Encyclopedia of Arda does not nmake any reference to the urk-hai being the same as the Half-Orcs. I believe it is time to clarify this issue.
A corrupted Elf, one of the first Orcs, and their current leader, [88] [89] who creates the land of Mordor so the Orcs can live free from their enemies and Sauron. [90] Adar prefers the term "Uruk", the name for Orcs in Black Speech, an idea that came from Mawle who personally disliked the word "Orc" being used on set.
Heine and Premont also commented that the way in which Dungeons & Dragon presents half-elves is very different from the other half-human choice, the half-orc; while half-elves often seek to find their place as outsiders and become "a race of leaders, ambassadors and social butterflies", half-orcs tend to embody a more uncivilized, barbaric ...
The name Mirkwood derives from the forest Myrkviðr of Norse mythology. 19th-century writers interested in philology, including the folklorist Jacob Grimm and the artist and fantasy writer William Morris, speculated romantically about the wild, primitive Northern forest, the Myrkviðr inn ókunni ("the pathless Mirkwood") and the secret roads across it, in the hope of reconstructing supposed ...