Exactly what the title says it is.
This is adapted from Monsters and Villains of the Movies and Literature by Gerrie McCall, Dragons: Fearsome Monsters from Myth and Fiction by Gerrie McCall, and Mythical Monsters by Chris McNab.
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BODY: His short, deformed body is filthy. The Orc's long arms, crooked back, and bowed legs give him an apelike appearance. WEAPONS: An Orc will choose a rock, a club, or poisoned blades and arrows as battle weapons.
MOUTH: The fanged mouth never smiles. It produces an unpleasant laugh that sounds like clashing metal. FACE: The Orc's piggy face is flat nosed with sallow skin and beady, slanted eyes.
Orcs are sadistic, warmongering beings capable only of destruction. They create nothing but misery and conflict. They hate everyone, including their own race. Their hearts of granite pump sour black blood through their veins. Orcs are always hungry and consume the flesh of humans and horses alike. Frodo the hobbit is lucky to survive being captured by Orcs after the demon spider Shelob paralyzes him. The Orcs discover the unconscious Frodo wrapped in the spiders webbing. Frodo is carried away to the Orcs' lair, but his friend Sam rescues him before the Orcs can make a meal of him.
Evil Lord Sauron breeds and uses the Orcs as his foot soldiers in wars against the Elves and Men. Called the Foot Soldiers of Shadow, the Orcs are bred for great size, speed, and malice. Orcs wear thick, black armor etched with spells and a helmet bearing the horns of a Mumak, a mammoth ancestor of modern-day elephants. Orcs make the fiercest of warriors because they are willing to take on any enemy. When no enemy is available, Orcs frequently fight among themselves.
DID YOU KNOW? In Tolkien's fantasy novel The Lord of the Rings, a group of Orcs invades the the land where the hobbits live. A battle breaks out between the hobbits and the Orc invaders. One of the hobbits uses a club to knock the head off of the chief Orc. The Orc's severed head flies through the air and lands in a rabbit hole. According to the hobbits, this hole-in-one led to the invention of golf.
While Frodo is held in the Orcs' lair, the Orcs search through his belongings in search of the One Ring. The Orcs become involved in a dispute over who will take Frodo's metal vest. The dispute grows into a battle between all the Orcs present, and nearly all of them are killed in the argument over ownership of the vest.
