Aren’t the orcs just purely evil beings who could have no love in their hearts? Well, we suppose that’s a fair question to ask. But The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power has long been veering away ...

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Ugly, violent creatures, orcs hate almost everyone and everything. That includes themselves. This is why it’s so interesting that The Rings of Power‘s orcs do not hate Adar. They also abhor natural ...

Tristan is an aspiring video game designer with a special interest in open worlds and puzzle games. His reviews of video games and films have been published in Bates College's student newspaper.

Playing in Dungeons and Dragons either as or fighting against orcs may promote racist attitudes in real life The origin of the orc in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings is based in anti-Asian (or ...

One little orc/uruk baby is in the middle of much discussion among the lovers of Middle-earth in our world. During The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power season two’s first episode, we got to meet ...

Recently, some recesses of the internet went abuzz with debates whether orcs, the fictional bad guys from the Lord of the Ring series who also feature in the Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) game, are the ...