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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
We were in the city of Waterdeep, overrun by an orc horde.
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
He cared no longer for Shagrat or Snaga or any other orc that was ever spawned.
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
By feeding assets like the combative orcs of World of Warcraft, the macabre dungeons of Diablo and the vivacious heroes of Overwatch into the machine, Blizzard can effortlessly produce concept art for new ideas.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
The backstory — not explained in the movie — is a middle-aged worker in modern Japan is murdered and wakes up in a world of dragons, ogres, orcs and magic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
The field was strewn with stricken orcs and men, and a reek arose of torches cast away, sputtering out in swirling smoke.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
