They're different in Tolkien's Universe
@ThatDamnCat Different how? The Wiki I'm looking at says they aren't differentiated. It's been a long time since I read The Hobbit though and I never read any of the other books, so I don't remember.
I suppose I'm thinking about more modern interpretations.
I read all the books and they're the same there because he changed the language, so there was no orc/goblin difference (never see them in the same room together trope) but in modern adaptations they are differentiated.
@ThatDamnCat Yeah that makes sense.
I just ask because I got bored and decided to watch the second Hobbit movie (newish one, not animated) tonight. I saw the first one in theaters and never got around to seeing the other two.
Anyway, the orcs in *this adaptation* are flanked by smaller, more variant-looking creatures and I wondered if they were goblins so looked it up.
Knowing me, I'm going to spend the rest of the night reading up on lore.
@ThatDamnCat @Sparrow (To get down to 500 chars I cut all my "iirc" and "pretty sure" etc, so the post might look very assertive and terse! Sorry if so!)