One problem with this is that humans only really have what's been called "monkeysphere"- they can only really keep 150-250 people in mind as people at any given time. Thus, no crime, no war, etc., because the brain would be made to identify every human as pretty much the same. The idea was to get everyone to register every other human being as a member of their most-valued, precious social circle. The main thing is, Reavers aren't a culture or species unto themselves.īest guess: Pax was intended to open up the part of the brain that is responsible for in-group affiliation. It occurs in one or two places but is usually translated goblin (or hobgoblin for the larger kinds)." In the old English Orc means "demon." The term Uruk-hai merely means "orc-folk" in the Black Speech, and was the Uruk-hai's name for themselves. The original sense of the word seems to be "bogey", "bogeyman", that is, something that provokes fear, as seen in the Quenya cognate urko, pl. (In Tolkien's languages the letter c was always pronounced /k/.) It is also possible that the word is a Common Tongue Version of 'orch', the Sindarin word for Orc. In his late, post-Lord of the Rings writings (published in The Peoples of Middle-earth), he preferred the spelling "Ork", evidently mainly to avoid the form Orcish, which would be naturally pronounced with the c as /s/ instead of /k/. In Tolkien's Sindarin language, "Orc" is orch, plural yrch. Tolkien called them Orks, Orcs, Goblins, Uruk, he was a linguist and knew that things very rarely have a single name when dealing with multiple cultures and languages that exist together. What If Fiction ( This is the best place for "general" questions)įor non-serious answers for real world science problems try:Īnd just for fun, don't forget to check out our friends at Who would win ( Go here for questions about who would win in a fight or competition between two or more characters) This subreddit is for discussion of fiction using information about the universe and not meta information about the work.
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