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...What if a clumsy non-player director reflexively recasts the blood-drenched exploits of orcs and space marines as a high school romcom?...
...Tolkien”; dictionaries of old English dialects; a paper-strewn writer’s desk and colourful drawings of hobbits, elves, orcs. There is even a “Lord of the Rings” pinball machine....
...Target says it has seen “a significant increase” in theft and ORC across its business....
...Characters face challenges (smite this orc or whatever) but not the classic one of material self-betterment.Where did the arriviste go?...
...Once we’ve got used to our virtual surroundings, the real business begins as all 350 of us are transported to a castle and equipped with bows and arrows to defend our turf from orcs and fire-breathing dragons...
...Better to compare apples and pears than orcs and beauty queens. Lex Populi is an FT Money column from Lex, the FT’s daily commentary service on global capital....
...For every orc there’s an elf to discover; for every Star Wars character there is another, usually inexplicably related to a third character....
...Orcs are nasty and brutish (though not especially short)....
...Theo Triantafyllidis, whose film Radicalization Pipeline, made using a game engine, reimagines social media platforms as video game conflict zones where MAGA-cap-wearing Trump supporters do battle with orcs...
...“She looked at the orc, right in his eyes and asked: ‘Why are you here? Will you shoot me?’...
...The fact of being an elf, dwarf, human or orc defined your morality and physical abilities — and racial difference could be justification enough for war....
...Vadym Tokar, the mayor of Makariv, a town west of Kyiv, said on Friday that “as of yesterday, we have [identified] 132 civilians who were shot by Russian ‘orcs’.”...
...The history of bringing the epic tale to screen, radio, stage or gaming is not one of dwarfs, orcs, elves, balrogs, wizards or hobbits, but of legal disputes, troubled adaptations and multimillion-dollar...
...It has buttressed Kyiv’s narrative of plucky fighters struggling to defend European values against Russia’s “orcs”, as Ukrainians pejoratively call the invaders, and their alleged war crimes....
...“We took offence at these orcs. Russian bandits are made into ghosts by Bayraktar,” go the words to the tune posted on the land forces’ Facebook page....
...“Kreminna is under the control of the orcs....
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...Covering, among other things, the racism implicit in Tolkien’s depiction of Orcs, the flagrant commercialisation that has seeped into superhero comics and movies, and the twee Englishness of the Harry Potter...
...So in The Lord of the Rings Online, there are hobbit players who never fight orcs or even bother looking for the One Ring, instead staying cosily in the Shire, farming tobacco, making merry and crafting...
...It has proven adept at recruiting new hobbyists through its bricks-and-mortar outlets, where would-be wargamers can pit their armies of orcs and elves against each other....
...New Zealand has already built a multibillion-dollar movie and tourism industry on the adventures featuring hobbits, wizards and orcs after local director Peter Jackson made six films based on the JRR Tolkien...
...The shares had calmed down a little in recent weeks on the assumption that looser social distancing would be a hindrance to demand for four-inch orcs, but not so....
...Licensing deals with video game makers have helped lure would-be orc warlords. Royalties go straight to the bottom line....
...Director Dome Karukoski wisely understates the line from that carnage to orc-filled battlefields, even if the fine actor Craig Roberts is cast as a working class proto-Bilbo guiding Tolkien through the trenches...
...The orc figurine and 16-sided dice specialist did 18 per cent sales growth and £58.6m in profit for the first half, with gross margin up 260 bips to 69.5 per cent on a more profitable product mix (more demand...
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