- Cities and buildings
- Fields, plains and deserts
- Forests
- Hills and mountains
- Islands and promontories
- Lands, realms and regions
- Rivers and lakes
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Dates and Origins
Uncertain1
Race
Orcs
Meaning
A combination of hob and goblin, two old names for impish sprites
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HobgoblinsGreater GoblinsA name for the certain kinds of Orc found in Middle-earth, at least in the Third Age and possibly earlier. The only definite distinction was that hobgoblins were larger3 than ordinary Goblins, and so the term perhaps, though doubtfully, refers to the large soldier-orcs known as Uruks. The term appears so rarely that there is little clear basis for a definition. Its only other occurrence is later in The Hobbit (7, Queer Lodgings) where Gandalf warns Bilbo that the Grey Mountains are 'simply stiff with goblins, hobgoblins, and orcs of the worst description'. Notes
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