Talk:Orc/@comment-24540583-20151022055456/@comment-78.20.131.40-20151022185803

Okay, I stand corrected. The word may have existed before, but Tolkien did indeed invent the modern day interpretation of the term "Orc".

Nonetheless, TLoR does not hold a trademark on the usage of the term Orc (I think). People are free to depict and interpret them however they want, just as the depiciton of trolls and fairies can differ greatly among works of fiction.

Orcs are just as legitimatly pig men in Japan as they are green skinned brutes in the west.

As Party Vanderbilt said, if you're gonna complain about Orcs not fitting your definition of what it's "supposed" to be, it would be hypocritical to not complain about all the others here, as none of them resemble their original counterparts from fiction, mythology, folklore, etc.