Orc

Uruk Hai from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film

Orcs are a race of humanoid monsters common in modern fantasy. They were first created by JRR Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings series of novels as a race of soldiers created by the Dark Lord.

Charecteristics

Orcs are humanoid creatures of comprable size to Humans, generally green, brown or grey in color, heavilly built and normally with sharp teeth. Orcs are also typically antisocial and aggressive toward all other life forms. Orcs generally do not have sophsiticated societies of their own and live as small bands of Iron Age warriors although they can be unified (generally by an non orc leader).

See also

• Ork