ghItlhpu' SuStel, jatlh:

> _Hu'rIn lu'uchmeH ghopDu'chaj lo' orcs.

jIHvaD loQ jum; qatlh DIvI' Hol pab pol orcs? qatlh orcpu' Dajun? (...'ach yrch Dalo'nISbe'ba' :) )

ghot pong 'oHmo' _Hu'rIn'e' 'ach Segh 'oHmo' orc'e'.

At some point you have to decide what exactly a proper noun is. The word human is, for example, a common noun, but the word Klingon is a proper noun. Sometimes people writing about Star Trek try to correct this by capitalizing Human as well.

Tolkien's capitalization for elves, orcs, dwarves, and so on changes depending on which book you're looking at. He never capitalizes troll, however. His choice to treat some "species" as proper nouns in some books is a personal convention, and it need not be followed at all times.

There's an old role-playing game called Star Frontiers in which the various intelligent race-names are all capitalized, and so they capitalize Human as well. I always take it the other way, figuring that if human is a common noun to humans, then yazirian is a common noun to yazirians, dralasite is a common noun to dralasites, and vrusk is a common noun to vrusk. I adopt a narrower definition of what constitutes a proper noun.

So I made a choice: orc is a common noun, not a proper noun, just as I'll treat tlhIngan, romuluSngan, and tera'ngan as common nouns. It's just a personal convention. Given that we're talking about personal conventions to mark proper nouns, I figure I'm entitled. :)

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