FOG orc/k vote

[Aiwendil]

I'm a little confused - I thought we had decided to hold off on this vote, as it does not really concern the present text. I still think we should put aside this matter until we're done with FoG.

If there is to be a vote, though, I go for Orc, so as not to contradict LotR.

we could change the 'c'
to 'k', making 'orcish' to 'orkish'.

If I recall correctly, this is exactly what Tolkien did in LotR.

+ as it is given as non english word, substitute for goblin, it's more likely to look evidently stranger with a k in the end.

This is actually exactly the opposite of the reason JRRT wanted to make the change. "Orc" is the Old English form, which he at first used unaltered. The reason for the proposed change is that if the word had remained a commonly used one and come into Modern English, the "c" would have changed to "k", as in other O.E. words ending in "-c".

[ October 11, 2002: Message edited by: Aiwendil ]