orc

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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

Hardly twenty paces from where the hobbits lurked the small orc stopped.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien