![]() ![]() There weren’t a whole lot of orc-related surprises left out there in the world. Whether it’s in books, or films, or video games – orcs are big, orc are mean, and orcs want to kill and possibly eat you. No matter what the medium, the orc is pretty much the same. Combine that with an (un)healthy amount of WarCraft in my college and post-college years, and I’ve been familiar with all things orc for just about 20 years. ![]() As a kid I had The Hobbit and most of The Lord of The Rings read to me, but for whatever reason those tropes didn’t really stick until those summers when we played a lot of HeroQuest. My mom definitely does.) Me? I didn’t really become familiar with the giant lumbering green creatures until the early 1990s when me and my brother and my dad would play HeroQuest at night in the summers. ![]() Where once the fearsome orc was known mostly to Tolkien-lovers and lovers of those who ripped off Tolkien, these days even my grandmother knows what an orc is. Thanks to Peter Jackson and company, “orc” is a household term. ![]()
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