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Hirumith, the Grey Knight · **Posted:** Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:14 am

Coenus Scaldingus wrote:

Oh dear, I just imagined having to sit through a nine-hour film trilogy on the troubles of Tauriel the single-mum, who does everything in her power to get her mongrel child accepted by the Mirkwood community.

I think it could make for an Oscar-worthy piece of really compelling, black-and-white, art house cinema, actually (in French with subtitles).

cryonicleech · **Joined:** Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:45 am **Posts:** 15

Page 82 of The Hobbit, where Bilbo escapes from The Misty Mountains, uses both terms interchangeably.

" "A bit low for goblins" thought Bilbo, not knowing that even the big ones, the orcs of the mountains..."

Here, goblins are referred to as orcs. Though orcs are bigger than goblins, orcs are referred to as "big goblins" rather than separate from goblins.

Tolkein also addresses this at the very beginning of the book.

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