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"Orc" is Old English and is used in Beowulf. "Ork" is a 1990s idea of a cool spelling, like "magick". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc https://en.wikipedia.o
by Symbiote 4y ago
"Orc" is Old English and is used in Beowulf.
"Ork" is a 1990s idea of a cool spelling, like "magick".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc
- jltsiren 4y agoTolkien preferred "ork" in his later writings. There is some discussion of the spelling in his guide to translating names: > It should be spelt ork (so the Dutch translation) in a Germanic language, but I had used the spelling orc in so many places that I have hesitated to change it in the English text, though the adjective is necessarily spelt orkish.