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| | Orc - the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Tolkien in his fictional stories of Middle-earth as the name of a race ofcreatures that are often used by evil forces as soldiers. |
 | | In Beowulf, ll: 112,the zombie-like Grendel's race is described as Orc-néas, which seems to mean "corpses of Orcus." Orcus, in Roman mythology, was an alternative name for Pluto,Hades, or Dis Pater, god of the land ofthe dead. |
 | | Gargu-Khanu are often found in mixed-species colonies where they are overlords of the smaller vassal species,controlling access to the singular breeding queen of the other species as well as their own. |
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