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  2. Category:Fictional human hybrids - Wikipedia

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    Fictional half-vampires (2 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Fictional human hybrids" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. ... Half-orc; Halfling ...

  3. Orc - Wikipedia

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    An orc (sometimes spelt ork; / ɔːr k / [1] [2]), [3] in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fantasy fiction, is a race of humanoid monsters, which he also calls "goblin".. In Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, orcs appear as a brutish, aggressive, ugly, and malevolent race of monsters, contrasting with the benevolent Elves.

  4. Character race - Wikipedia

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    Character race is a descriptor used to describe the various sapient species and beings that make up the setting in modern fantasy and science fiction.In many tabletop role-playing games and video games, players may choose to be one of these creatures when creating their player character (PC) or encounter them as a non-player character (NPC).

  5. Half-elf (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    Heine and Premont also commented that the way in which Dungeons & Dragon presents half-elves is very different from the other half-human choice, the half-orc; while half-elves often seek to find their place as outsiders and become "a race of leaders, ambassadors and social butterflies", half-orcs tend to embody a more uncivilized, barbaric ...

  6. Elves in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Warhammer is unique in the aspect that Warhammer 40,000, the science fantasy version of the game, features space faring elves under the name of Aeldari (previously called Eldar, a term borrowed from Tolkien) – an ancient race that once served the Old Ones and in the aftermath of a great catastrophe have split into four distinct groups, the ...

  7. Halfling - Wikipedia

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    Halfling is a word used in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Northern England for a boy or girl who is not yet fully grown; a youth, an adolescent, and formerly sometimes a boy or young man employed in a junior role in domestic, agricultural, or industrial work. [1]

  8. Orc (Dungeons & Dragons) - Wikipedia

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    The half-orc in the original AD&D game was a standard player character race, typically assuming the assassin class. Half-orcs were removed in the second edition of the game but were revived, albeit altered, in one of the 1995 revision books—Player's Option: Skills & Powers—to the second edition rules.

  9. Middle-earth peoples - Wikipedia

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    First name the four, the free peoples Eldest of all, the elf-children Dwarf the delver, dark are his houses Ent the earthborn, old as mountains Man the mortal, master of horses. After encountering the hobbits Merry and Pippin, he consents that hobbits are a fifth free people, adding a fifth line, "Half-grown hobbits, the hole-dwellers". [T 8]