Tolkien brutes

The answer

ORCS

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ORCS answer page.

Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2025; first recorded in 2005. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ORCS

Every other clue in this collection answered by ORCS, most used first.

• Grampuses - used 32 times, most recently in 2012
• Tolkien creatures - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
• Tolkien baddies - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Killer whales - used 17 times, most recently in 2001
• Tolkien monsters - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Mythical monsters - used 15 times, most recently in 2016
• Tolkien villains - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Dungeons & Dragons creatures - used 12 times, most recently in 2017
• Tolkien beasts - used 10 times, most recently in 2022
• Middle-earth menaces - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Dungeons & Dragons beasts - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• "Lord of the Rings" baddies - used 6 times, most recently in 2022
• Tolkien henchmen - used 6 times, most recently in 2017

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Tolkien creatures - ENTS, used 104 times
• Tolkien tree creatures - ENTS, used 71 times
• Tolkien trilogy, for short - LOTR, used 17 times
• Big brutes - APES, used 11 times
• Tolkien forest creatures - ENTS, used 10 times
• Tolkien trilogy, to fans - LOTR, used 8 times

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