Ork or Orc?????

[Starke]

It is Orc.

Ork is simply a copyright/legal loophole

Not likely. As mentioned above a couple of times, ork is the Germanic version of the word.

 

[rokkolpo]

Being Dutch, Ork.

But the Tolkien one was orc and derived from the Latin word 'orcus', which has got something to do with the underworld.

Exactly what you said, apart from the orcus, i didn't know about that.

so Ork in native and Orc in general.

 

[Mr Scott]

Orkz wuz maed fo foighin, un winnun!

 

[Nmil-ek]

Lok'tar Ogar!

 

[Keava]

Ork is how orcs spell it actually, orc is the 'common' spelling. Warhammer uses Ork, because Orks there just are much more vocal about their rights, majority of fantasy uses Orc, because in majority of fantasy orcs are just canon fodder *nods*

Itz bin all dem politikz dey messin' with dem orkses but wez 'nowz dat orkses are neva' beaten in battle.

 

[procyonlotor]

orc: "ogre, devouring monster," O.E. orcþyrs, orcneas (pl.), perhaps from a Romanic source akin to ogre, and ult. from L. Orcus "Hell," a word of unknown origin. Revived by J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) as the name of a brutal race in Middle Earth.

Courtesy of http://www.etymonline.com/index.php

 

[jowo96]

I didn't even know Ork was a thing, its Orc

 

[ryai458]

Orc ofcourse.

 

[old account]

They are pronounced the same aren't they? It's just a different way of writing it so others could look original. It's like saying there is a difference when you verbalize 'fish' and 'phish'.
And I believe that Orcs (or orks) were around before Tolkien, check medieval celtic mythos (if I'm not mistaken). I hate how he gets the credit for Orcs just because he over-popularized by giving them an unnecessarily large role for not even having a basis of society structure. Now the Warcraft Universe Orcs, that is a great story and I'm glad that they have such a deep disturbing/difficult history.

 

[AssassinJoe]

Orc. LOTR forever!

 

[Samwise137]

A Games Workshop dev explained to me once that they use Orc for Warhammer Fantasy and Ork for Warhammer 40,000 simply as a distinguisher between the two games. As 40k came later, I'd say that means it's Orc.

 

[Kenko]

Ork, LOTR is overrated.

 

[zehydra]

Sounds the same so I don't really care. Not trying to be mean or anything I just really don't care lol.

same here, lol. Actually, I kind of hate the fact that the alphabet has two symbols for the same sound.

 

[Kiefer13]

Simple. Ork in Warhammer 40,000, and Orc in everything else (Lord of the Rings, other fantasy stories etc)

 

[thiosk]

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If they are green monsters from space, ork.

If they are in a generic tolkeinesque fantasy world, orc.

If they are in a fantasy world that does not necessarily follow tolkein, author discretion.

 

[mew4ever23]

As a WoW player on hiatus, I say it's "Orc".

 

[The Night Shade]

Orc (the k in ork it's just too make it more threatening)

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Orc (the k in ork it's just too make it more threatening)

Thats why we germans always spell it Ork
fear us!

but in every english source i know it was with a "c".

 

[blankedboy]

I'd like to add how do people spell Demon/Daemon.

Demon, and Orc.

Classicz, because I've only ever seen 'Ork' in Warhammer 40K. A mediocre strategy game... it got boring pretty quickly. :\