Talk:Half-orcs
Can anyone back up the statements of this article? Where does Tolkien speak of those who he said looked like half-orcs were actually part orc? --Narfil Palùrfalas 16:52, 30 May 2006 (EDT)
Is there any evidence that the men actually mixed with orcs? I know that some of Saruman's men were said to "look like half-orcs", but is this because of their looks, or because they actually were half orc, half man. It is mentioned that it was possible, but I don't recall any other evidence for it. --Narfil Palùrfalas 19:05, 27 May 2006 (EDT)
Half-orcs were similar to Goblin-men and while "half-orcs" are mentioned in The Lord of the Rings I will look for some further evidence. EoA also has an article on them and Mark Fisher is pretty strict canon-wise on what he adds. --Hyarion 22:35, 30 May 2006 (EDT)
- A quote from The Two Towers:
- "Most of them were ordinary men, rather tall and dark-haired, and grim but not particularly evil-looking. But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed. Do you know, they reminded me at once of that Southerner at Bree: only he was not so obviously orc-like as most of these were.
- 'I thought of him too,' said Aragorn. 'We had many of these half-orcs to deal with at Helm's Deep."
- This passage would speak in favour of treating the half-orcs as more than merely "possible" race, as Aragorn's words are to be taken seriously. --Morgan 23:37, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
