Orcs and Goblins

Rachael Dufford Alanna Friebely

Race Name

• The names “Orc” and “Goblin” and mostly interchangeable, depending on the work

• Also can be called “Uruks”

Physical Description• Humanoid- all male• Fanged• Often dirty• Largest are almost human height• Some are as small as hobbits• Can crossbreed with man• Have long ape-like arms• Broad• Crooked backs and legs• Black blood• Zombie-like• Speculated to be immortal but no one is sure

Location

• Misty Mountains• Mordor• Isengard

Languages

• Does not have their own language• Corrupted mish-mash of various languages• Black Speech is widely used• “Uglúk u bagronk sha pushdug Saruman-glob

búbhosh skai!”• translation: "Uglúk to the cesspool, sha! the

dungfilth; the great Saruman-fool, skai!".

Skills

• Destruction• Violence• Slave labor

Notable Characters

• The Great Goblin-only one specifically named in “The Hobbit”

• Azog- chieftain who started a war between dwarves and orcs- son Bolg

• Snaga- one Orc is at one time called this, but is actually a term for lower-rank Orcs