Editing Orcus (section)

===Tolkien===
The ''orco'' from ''[[Orlando Furioso|Orlando]]'', along with the [[Old English]] word ''orc'' (in the sense of an [[ogre]], like [[Grendel]]), was part of the inspiration for [[J. R. R. Tolkien|Tolkien]]'s ''[[orc]]s'' in his ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]''.<ref>{{cite book |first=J.R.R. |last=Tolkien |author-link=John Ronald Reuel Tolkien |year=1954–1955 |title=The Lord of the Rings |title-link=The Lord of the Rings}}</ref> In other manuscripts Tolkien wrote a side-note on the word:
:The word used in translation of [[Quenya|Q{{grey|[uenya]}}]] ''urko'', [[Sindarin|S{{grey|[indarin]}}]] ''orch'', is orc. But that is because of the similarity of the ancient English word orc, 'evil spirit or bogey', to the Elvish words. There is possibly no connexion between them. The English word is now generally supposed to be derived from Latin Orcus.<ref>{{cite book |first=J.R.R. |last=Tolkien |author-link=John Ronald Reuel Tolkien |editor=Tolkien, C. |editor-link=Christopher Tolkien |title=The War of the Jewels |title-link=The War of the Jewels |year=1994}}</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2021}}

In an unpublished letter sent to [[Gene Wolfe]], Tolkien also made this comment:
:Orc I derived from Anglo-Saxon, a word meaning demon, usually supposed to be derived from the Latin Orcus – Hell. But I doubt this, though the matter is too involved to set out here.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Gene |last=Wolfe |date=December 2001 |title=The best introduction to the mountains |magazine=Interzone |via=Claranet Soho (clara.net) |url=http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html |access-date=2014-02-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20040113063643/http%3A//home.clara.net/andywrobertson/wolfemountains.html |archive-date=2004-01-13}}</ref>

From this use, countless other [[fantasy]] games and works of fiction have borrowed the concept of the orc.