Re: tolkien?

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> At 21:56 15.12.2003, Pavel Iosad wrote:
>
> > > so it would seem
> > > that _orc_ is a CS loan from Sindarin. (It's also an OE word meaning
> > > something like "demon";
> > > coincidence, as they say in Middle-earth!)
> >
> >Met in Beowulf, anyway (orcneas, something like 'corpses')
>
> Actually "Orks' corpses".  JRRT must have thought
> that the idea of "demons' corpses" was strange,
> given the usual definition of 'demon' as 'evil
> **spirit**', so _orc_ must be something else,
> more flesh-and-bloody, right?
Call me a nitpicker, but it always annoyed me in Blizzard's Diblo series of
computer games that the 'demons' obviously were perfectly material creatures.

                                                          Andreas