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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1283829" data-attributes="member: 2205">The only Frazzetta pictures of orcs that I'm aware of look nothing like either the Warhammer orcs or the movie LOTR orcs. <a href="http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images/frazzetta/orcs.jpg" target="_blank">http://img-fan.theonering.net/rolozo/images/frazzetta/orcs.jpg</a>Why in the world would you say that?  Warhammer orcs have extremely exaggerated features, like green, hairless apes, only even more exaggerated even than that.  They look nothing at all like the TTT Uruk-hai.Again, the LOTR movie versions look nothing like what you suspect is the inspiration for them.  Where your getting these suspicions is completely beyond me.  In fact, it's particularly ironic given that Games Workshop also make the Lord of the Rings miniatures game, so you can really see the contrast between the LOTR orcs and goblins and the Warhammer orcs and goblins.What orcs?  D&D orcs have never been described as green-skinned, nor have Tolkien's orcs.  Goblins in form in D&D also look nothing like Warhammer goblins, which have exaggerated, almost clownlike anatomies which are fine (especially for Blood Bowl, IIMO, which is a silly game to begin with) but nothing at all like anything in either D&D or Tolkien.</blockquote>