Hobgoblin

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Hobgoblins were a species of orc which were related to Goblins in Middle-earth.

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Hobgoblins were stronger, larger, and more menacing than the other orcs. The Hobgoblins were only mentioned once by Gandalf in The Hobbit.

J.R.R. Tolkien later wrote in a letter that through a further study of folklore he learned that the Hobgoblins were the opposite of larger Goblins then the original truth.