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Topic	Why do so many fantasy games use Orcs?
Zeus 09/16/18 1:42:46 PM #15:	Muscles posted... They aren't allowed to use Hobbits because Tolkien made those, but he also made Orcs He didn't make orcs, and hobbits are used elsewhere but not called hobbits (ie, D&D's halflings) Muscles posted... Fantasy is usually not white guys vs black guys or white guys vs muslims though It's just guys vs non humans Completely untrue. Human vs human appears in fantasy all the time. Getting the impression you're just trolling... JOExHIGASHI posted... DPsx7 posted... Same reason you see so many damn zombies anymore. If you use any other group (short of Nazi's or something) then some group somewhere is going to complain about discrimination. Modern zombies are used everywhere because the person that created them didn't have a copyright symbol in the movie so technically his zombies were not copyrighted which means anybody could use them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status_and_home_media That and zombies have real-world mythology and history on top of it. It's kind of like how mummies have become a stock movie monster despite the fact that most of the tropes associated with mummies come from movies. Blighboy posted... But as others have already mentioned, there's surprisingly few similarities between modern fantasy and Tolkien orcs. The closest analogue to Tolkien orcs I can think of in modern high fantasy are the Skaven from Warhammer (who are much more similar to Tolkien orcs than Warhammer orcs are). You mean the rat-people? --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. <cite>Zeus posted [p:908863718] in Why do so ... [t:77006156]...</cite> <quote><cite>Muscles posted...</cite> <quote>They aren't allowed to use Hobbits because Tolkien made those, but he also made Orcs</quote> He didn't make orcs, and hobbits are used elsewhere but not called hobbits (ie, D&D's halflings) <cite>Muscles posted...</cite> <quote>Fantasy is usually not white guys vs black guys or white guys vs muslims though It's just guys vs non humans</quote> Completely untrue. Human vs human appears in fantasy all the time. Getting the impression you're just trolling... <cite>JOExHIGASHI posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DPsx7 posted...</cite> <quote>Same reason you see so many damn zombies anymore. If you use any other group (short of Nazi's or something) then some group somewhere is going to complain about discrimination.</quote> Modern zombies are used everywhere because the person that created them didn't have a copyright symbol in the movie so technically his zombies were not copyrighted which means anybody could use them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Living_Dead#Copyright_status_and_home_media</quote> That and zombies have real-world mythology and history on top of it. It's kind of like how mummies have become a stock movie monster despite the fact that most of the tropes associated with mummies come from movies. <cite>Blighboy posted...</cite> <quote>But as others have already mentioned, there's surprisingly few similarities between modern fantasy and Tolkien orcs. The closest analogue to Tolkien orcs I can think of in modern high fantasy are the Skaven from Warhammer (who are much more similar to Tolkien orcs than Warhammer orcs are). </quote> You mean the rat-people? --- (\/)(\/)\|-\| There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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