Talk:Gruumsh
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[edit] Similarities to Mythology
When archeologists excavated the 'grotto del orco', an Etruscan tomb in Italy, they misidentified an Etruscan painting of a cyclops in an underworld fresco scene, calling it Orcus the god of the dead. Later, it was discovered that the cyclops was not Orcus and that Orcus was never worshipped by the Etruscans. The word 'Orcus' was related closely to the evolution of the word 'orc'. Oddly, the cyclops-Orcus and Gruumsh both have one eye, though it is agreed that Gruumsh was inspired by the one-eyed Sauron.
In Celt-Irish myth, Balor is was one-eyed Fomorian giant who could kill with a glance.
In Norse mythology, the elves were also created from the blood of the dead giant Ymir, who was slain by one-eyed Odin and his brothers.
