Orcus (Terra Media)

Orcus vel Gobelinus est gens bellica in Terra Media professoris Tolkien. In libro Hobbitus Ille praecipue vocantur gobelini, sed in Domino Anulorum orci. In alta lingua dryada Quenya, verbum pro "Orcis" est urco, plurali urqui, significat "larva", id est, aliqua res qua provocat timor. In commentariolo de linguis elvensis, scripto in 1954, Tolkien sensum praebuit 'orc'  prout larva et extendit originem verbi anglici veteri est nomen Latini 'Orcus'-deus inferorum. "Orc is the form of the name that other races had for this foul people as it was in the language of Rohan." Tolkien, J. R. R. (1955), The Return of the King, The Lord of the Rings, Boston: Houghton Mifflin (published 1987), Appendix F: The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age, ISBN 0-395-08256-0

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