1. A caricature of the Incredible Hulk with an over-large
head, giant-sized tusks and muscled limbs so disproportionately
thick he can't move them. He usually carries an obscenely large
axe, and sometimes wears a silly horned Brunhilda helmet for
good measure. His jaws are always agape in a permanent moronic grimace so we can see his yellowed tusks, but how he manages to close his mouth remains a mystery.
2. In the 1st and 2nd edition D&D game, a race of warlike humanoids with porcine snouts who are closely related to humans and can interbreed with them.
3. In
J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-Earth, a race of creatures that were once elves, but have been corrupted by the
dark powers of Morgoth and serve Sauron and Sauroman during the
war of the ring. They were, in a sense, Tolkien's critique of industrial warfare. Also known as "goblins".