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Re: (TFT) fiction ?
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- From: davidgrouchy <davidgrouchy@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:23:01 -0700 (PDT)
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"David O. Miller" <davidomiller@verizon.net> wrote: I always wondered about the name "orc" myself.
David,
From Tolkien's own words.
David Michael Grouchy II
"the word is as far as I am concerned actually derived from Old English orc 'demon', but only because of its phonetic suitability"
-The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien, #144, 25 April 1954.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
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