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Race
Pronunciation
Approximately oo'rch1
Meaning
'Orcs'
Other names
Note
Yrch is a plural term. The singular form is orch.
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In the Sindarin tongue, the word for an Orc or Goblin was orch. Sindarin formed plurals by systematically changing the vowel-sounds within a word (so, for example, amon 'hill', became emyn 'hills'; orod 'mountain' became ered 'mountains', and so on). The same rule applied to orch, so yrch represents the plural: 'Orcs'. By the end of the Third Age Sindarin was the language generally used by Elves of Silvan as well as Sindarin origin, and we hear the word yrch being used by Elves from both the major lands of the Silvan Elves, Lórien and the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood. Notes
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