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The orc was a sort of "hell-devil" in Old English literature, and the orc-né (pl. orc-néas, "demon-corpses") was a race of corrupted beings and descendants of Cain, alongside the elf, according to the poem Beowulf. Tolkien adopted the term orc from these old attestations, which he professed was a choice made purely for "phonetic suitability ...
To evade the British Army's postal censorship, he developed a code of dots by which Edith could track his movements. [47] He left Étaples on 27 June 1916 and joined his battalion at Rubempré, near Amiens. [48] He found himself commanding enlisted men who were drawn mainly from the mining, milling, and weaving towns of Lancashire. [49]