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Wealhtheow, Hrothgar's wife is called ides Helminga ("lady of the Helmings") in Beowulf (610), which means that she belonged to Helm's clan and was a Wulfing. [160] Heodenings Old English: Heodeningas, Old Norse: Hjaðningar, Middle High German: Hegelinge *Heðaningas, from the personal name Heoden or maybe meaning "people of the skins".
The Free Peoples of Middle-earth are the four races that never fell under the sway of the evil spirits Morgoth or Sauron: Elves, Men, Dwarves and Ents. Strictly speaking, among Men it was only the Men of the West who are Free People, particularly the descendants of the Dúnedain of the Isle of Númenor , as most Men of the East and South of ...
This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.
An orc (sometimes spelt ork; / ɔːr k / [1] [2]), [3] in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy fiction, is a race of humanoid monsters, which he also calls "goblin".. In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, orcs appear as a brutish, aggressive, ugly, and malevolent race of monsters, contrasting with the benevolent Elves.
The Orc King was No. 8 on the fiction hardcover bestseller list as reported by The Buffalo News in October 2007. [3]The Orc King, which marked the 20th anniversary of the character, made it to #7 on the list, as well as #9 on the Wall Street Journal list, #6 on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, and #36 on the USA Today list of top sellers.
Apache ORC, a file format; Orc, an album by Oh Sees; Orc (programming language) Orcs: First Blood, a series of books by Stan Nicholls; Orc (slang), a pejorative term used in Ukraine for a Russian soldier in the Russo-Ukrainian War
The orc battle priest, the orc berserker, and the war howler orc are introduced in the Monster Manual IV (2006). [29] The frostblood orcs appear in Dragon Magic (2006). The sharakim are a race of orcs that were transformed from humans, and appeared as a player character race in Races of Destiny (2004).
Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans is a cancelled graphic adventure game developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Animation Magic from 1996 until 1998. Set in the Warcraft universe after the events of Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, it followed the orc character Thrall in his quest to reunite his race, then living on reservations and in slavery following its defeat by the human Alliance.