Originally Posted by RagnarokCzD
Goblin (yes i know Tolkien called them Orcs)

As an aside, I didn't actually realise until embarassingly recently (ie just now when I checked my facts in the One Wiki to Rule them All before posting here), that for Tolkein "goblin", which he used more frequently in The Hobbit, was just a translation of "orc". I always thought that they were related, or that goblins were a subrace of orcs for Tolkein. Whereas I think FR goblins and orcs are quite distinct, and though there are other goblinoids in the Realms, orcs don't count amongst them? Though Tolkein's goblin/orcs do seem to have more in common, physically at least, with FR orcs than they do with goblins. Not that - clearly! - I'm an expert in either Middle Earth or FR lore.


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