Orcus
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The Mouth of Orcus
This might be a case of like James Fraser's golden bow where he kind of like saw patterns that make sense and they're so interesting and intriguing, but they don't actually exist. But the fact that I did read notes from Tolkien in a letter to Gene Wolf in which he betch it's the underworld God orcas as being the source of the word orc is true. So that much at least is true. If that much is true, I feel like the rest of it just it's feasible. Oh, and one of my favorite things in Italy in Orcini are all these fantastic statues of monsters. Yes. And there's a really famous one. It's called the mouth of
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