Latest comment: 7 October 2025 by Quentandil in topic Merge the four named Orcs from Fall of Gondolin
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Merge the four named Orcs from Fall of Gondolin
The only mention of these Orcs is from a single sentence:
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There Tuor slew Othrod a lord of the Orcs cleaving his helm, and Balcmeg he hewed asunder, and Lug he smote with his axe that his limbs were cut from beneath him at the knee, but Ecthelion shore through two captains of the goblins at a sweep and cleft the head of Orcobal their chiefest champion to his teeth; and by reason of the great doughtiness of those two lords they came even unto the Balrogs.
I think we can safely merge Othrod, Balcmeg, Lug, and Orcobal. Oberiko (talk) 19:54, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
- If there is ever any adaptations with these characters in the future, it would be very tough to edit a possible merged page of four characters. William, Tom, and Bert (which technically could be changed to "Three Trolls") is an example of a similar page that does not work well as a merged page because each of the three trolls each have more than a single sentence that tells about them.
- Despite this, however, I believe that a potential merged page for these four Orcs would work much better because, apart from sources on their names, they do only appear in a single sentence that does not really distinguish them in any way.
- On the other hand, there are plenty of very short one sentence wiki pages on things like elements of a word.
- But again, I am more inclined to agree to this merge. I think that the merged page should be created by moving the page on Orcobal to Othrod, Balcmeg, Lug, and Orcobal because the page on Orcobal has the longest edit history.Dour1234 (talk) 22:30, 5 October 2025 (UTC)
- Not sure. An umbrella concept for the four of them would be confusing and four names for an article title is not appropiate. Quentandil (talk) 20:08, 7 October 2025 (UTC)