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For a while I thought they were heralding an orc attack; now it turns out they may just be grieving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
At another, Monet challenged an orc to solitaire instead of fighting it.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
The game hinges on cooperation and imagination — on the joy of friends inventing a creative way to trap an orc — and how in Hextor does that translate to sitting passively before a screen?
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023
I'm using pots and pans on orcs, and Elijah's got the mithril vest to stave off the orc, or the whatever, the cave troll stabs him with the spear.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2022
For a moment the orc crouched, and then with a hideous yelp of fear it turned and fled back as it had come.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
When the topic turns to her bookshelf, Thurman admits she’s become a fan of stories of orcs and elves in love.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2025
In this particular show, he steered the queens and audience through a world full of flying arrows and orcs looking to turn the heroes into a kind of fleshy cold brew.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2024
He finds one of the orcs responsible: a buddy of Rimuru’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
And leaving the orcs to fight among themselves wouldn’t be the worst thing.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2022
The ranks of the orcs had opened, and they crowded away, as if they themselves were afraid.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
