![]() 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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