Yeah...orcs here are suppose to be civilized....as much as orc can be....living in cities alongside other races. Orcs in WoW and Lord of the Rings don't do that.

LotR Orcs look way too evil for TES. TES Orcs are supposed to be allied to humans and other races, hence their more civilized appearance. WoW Orcs look great, but are very cartoony and don't fit the TES world at all.

Not when she notices hes wearing lipstick....

Dunmer,now Orsimer? Man,people really love cursing elves in TES :[

Even though it's been said a billion times, Imma reinforce it.

They are TES Orcs (or Orismer if you want to be fancy), not WoW Orcs, not LotR Orcs, TES Orcs. They are corrupted elves, so yes, they look human like and have in all previous games.

Nah, at least he is one of the very few orcs out there who can afford a comb and manage a decent haircut.

Just thought I'd point out that LOTR orcs are also corrupted elves http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orc_(Middle-earth)#East_Elves_.28Avari.29

But I agree that Tamriel's orcs shouldn't be a total rehash of common fantasy stereotypes and I personally like the new look.

You know that Tolkien/Lord of the Rings invented the orc race? So of course LotR orcs look like orcs, since all other fantasy orcs are based on them. Including Elder Scrolls orcs, whether people like it or not.

To be fair, WoW (and Warhammer too, now that I think about it) orcs at least have a different origin and background than simply being corrupted elves.

I love them. They look brutal and follow TES lore at the same time (same goes for every race), which is exact?y what I wanted of course

What?

They look just like the Blizzard Orcs...

I love Skyrim Orcs they are are better then Oblivion Orcs.

I'm new to TES, im grateful for this topic or i would've complained aswell.

Oh, and they look ugly as, why is everyone saying they're civilized? They should be killed with FIRE! I SAY! WITH FIRE!

Let's see, Dunmer = cursed elves, Orsimer = corrupted elves... are you still surprised ?

LotR orcs are corrupted elves as well.

i've seen ugly people who are civilized

And they also look closer too TES orcs than Warcraft orcs

http://images.wikia.com/lotr/images/1/1d/Lord-of-the-rings-orcs.jpg

Edit: Pics of TES orcs and a Warcraft orc for comparison.

TES

http://pixelsordeath.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/300175_10150268284506404_131368351403_7729303_4244662_n.jpg

Warcraft

http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module2/80832/world-of-warcraft-orc-red-3701254_qjpreviewth.jpg

Where you live, there must be very ugly people, if you think they look human...

It'd be awesome if they looked like this in TES.

Skyrims perfect ART of orsimer is waaaaay better then the CARTOONISH game called WOW... So, they cannot be even compared...

as long as you hate them, im happy

Even that isn't totally cut and dried, it's almost as confusing as TES lore.

Quote :


" Orc origins in Middle-Earth cosmology are described in The Silmarillion. Morgoth, a
powerful, self-serving Vala (god-equivalent) fallen into evil, captured some Elves
(Quendi) early in the existence of their race.

“Yet this is held true by the wise of Eress?a, that all those of the Quendi who came into
the hands of Melkor [later Morgoth]…by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved;
and thus did Melkor breed the race of the orcs, in envy and mockery of the Elves, of whom
they were afterwards the bitterest foes.”x

This idea is tidy and strongly appealing with its parallel of beautiful elves directly
linked to ugly orcs. Nonetheless, in his own varied writing about orcs, Tolkien
vacillated between this concept of orcs-from-elves and a related concept of orcs-
from-men.xi He even toyed with the idea that orcs were cunning animals, lacking
the spiritual element of sapient beings, or with the concept that orcs were Maiar
(divine spirits) serving Morgoth who had been corrupted into orc-form. Both the
orcs-from-men and orcs-as-beasts concepts seem to come from Tolkien’s personal
reluctance to taint elves, his “ideal” race. However, he kept being drawn back to
the idea of orcs-from-elves in multiple drafts of his own orc essay, written through
1959 and 1960, and he acknowledges that orcs-from-elves was the most workable
origin for the Middle-Earth timeline he desired. xii

Christopher Tolkien, editing The Silmarillion after J.R.R. Tolkien’s death, opted for
the orcs-from-elves origin. "

Orcs aren't real. There is no real life equivalent for the Blizzard or LOTR orcs to look like.

Bethesda can make them look however they want and the Skyrim orcs look pretty good.

Pfff,

No one is Orkier than the Orcs in Warhammer.


xD

WAARG