Ork or Orc?????
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Ork is how orcs spell it actually, orc is the 'common' spelling. Warhammer uses Ork, because Orks there just are much more vocal about their rights, majority of fantasy uses Orc, because in majority of fantasy orcs are just canon fodder *nods*
Itz bin all dem politikz dey messin' with dem orkses but wez 'nowz dat orkses are neva' beaten in battle.
Itz bin all dem politikz dey messin' with dem orkses but wez 'nowz dat orkses are neva' beaten in battle.
orc: "ogre, devouring monster," O.E. orcþyrs, orcneas (pl.), perhaps from a Romanic source akin to ogre, and ult. from L. Orcus "Hell," a word of unknown origin. Revived by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) as the name of a brutal race in Middle Earth.
Courtesy of http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
Courtesy of http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
They are pronounced the same aren't they? It's just a different way of writing it so others could look original. It's like saying there is a difference when you verbalize 'fish' and 'phish'.
And I believe that Orcs (or orks) were around before Tolkien, check medieval celtic mythos (if I'm not mistaken). I hate how he gets the credit for Orcs just because he over-popularized by giving them an unnecessarily large role for not even having a basis of society structure. Now the Warcraft Universe Orcs, that is a great story and I'm glad that they have such a deep disturbing/difficult history.
And I believe that Orcs (or orks) were around before Tolkien, check medieval celtic mythos (if I'm not mistaken). I hate how he gets the credit for Orcs just because he over-popularized by giving them an unnecessarily large role for not even having a basis of society structure. Now the Warcraft Universe Orcs, that is a great story and I'm glad that they have such a deep disturbing/difficult history.
A Games Workshop dev explained to me once that they use Orc for Warhammer Fantasy and Ork for Warhammer 40,000 simply as a distinguisher between the two games. As 40k came later, I'd say that means it's Orc.
[HEADING=3]WWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/HEADING]vallorn said:
If they are green monsters from space, ork.
If they are in a generic tolkeinesque fantasy world, orc.
If they are in a fantasy world that does not necessarily follow tolkein, author discretion.
Thats why we germans always spell it OrkThe Night Shade said:
fear us!
but in every english source i know it was with a "c".
Demon, and Orc.Djinn8 said:
Classicz, because I've only ever seen 'Ork' in Warhammer 40K. A mediocre strategy game... it got boring pretty quickly. :\
I spell it orc. I don't really think of the 40k orks as orcs really. More like goblins. They're too silly with their wagh banners and over all attitude. Orcs are supposed to be brutish and usually evil like in Warcraft and LOTR.