Talk:Orc/@comment-2606:6000:6203:F400:E99C:839B:4596:AEA7-20171217064808/@comment-29248623-20171217073704

The "Orc" term used in Overlord is similar as with most Japanese animes and LNs. They follow a strange pig-like creature that stands and two legs. There isn't any distinct mention of how human-like the Orcs in Overlord are and could either be more pig/boar like with their snout, tusks, hair and skin or much more human-like as with the Orcs in Warcraft.

As for the Lord of the Rings Orcs, there is a unique distinction in the nature of these creatures as they are hinted in the Silmarillion (The Origin Story of the LOTR and The Hobbit Universe) as Elves corrupted by the First Great Evil, Melkor. They are by nature a strict counterpart of the elves with their brutish features, their butchered speech and cultures based on those of the races that their kind originally came from and are more heavily built than Elven, Dwarven and Human folk. There is also a certain detail of half-human orcs introduced in the Two Towers that were bred by Saruman the White Wizard called the Uruk-Hai (The Fighting Orcs) that were half bred with humans and possed more strength over the original orcs and had an immunity to the lesser known weakness of their predecesors that was that they were weaker in direct Sun Exposure. This is one of the reasons why storm clouds and darkened skies was prevailent in the scenes were orcs fought the other races.

The ugly face and lack of hygiene trope is more of a by product of them being not as cultured in most of the other fantasy mythologies. But the Orcs in Warcraft do have some tribes that were as sophisticated as other cultures and can not be outright called as unhygienic but are still "ugly" when you try to measure beauty by human and elvish standards.