| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Orks & goblins |
| Date: | Sun, 20 Jul 1997 10:56:12 +0100 |
> Wow, wait a minuit, are you telling me that at one time orks and goblins
> were thought of as the same thing!! I always thought of them as totaly
> diferent races, they are adn will always be in my head totaly different.
> (I can't see the goblins in anybody's books the same as any oof my SR
> characters, That would just spoil my day!)
If you read The Hobbit, you'll find that the creatures called "orcs" in
other books are called "goblins" there. The intro in my copy states that
"/Orc/ is not an English word. It occurs in one or two places but is
usually translated /goblin/ (or /hobgoblin/ for the larger kinds). /Orc/
is the hobbits' form of the name given at that time to these creatures".
In Shadowrun, however, "ork" refers to Homo sapiens robustus, one of the
four major human subspecies that appeared after the Awkening; "goblin,"
however, is normally used to refer to Homo bestius, which are dwarfs
infected with the Human-Metahuman Vampiric Virus, but still (according to
the scientific name) human.
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