Well I went to the store and bought some stuff. Some of it was Hobbit related.
I bought a $35 box of 18 of those cancer goblins (they looked good as a dying mutated morlock scrounger tribe for post apocalyptic stuff and they are all one piecers too boot!) and a $10 box of those 'cheap and easy starter' box of 40K chaos cultists ( who are now wasteland scum and have had a couple of the old grenadier future wars/EM4 gas mask scavenger figs by Copplestone join their ranks to bring them up to seven strong). They could probably pass for ghouls or D&D manes/dretches or whatever too.
This is a confusing time for me. I found reasonably priced GW stuff that I wanted!
The new warg riders look good too (way better than the old LOTR ones) but $40 for 6 of them is about five bucks too rough for me and it's just three sprues twice to mix and match. I dunno. Maybe I could go for it later.
The Hunter orcs looks good but $35 for 12 is $10 rougher than the current $25 for twelve they have on LOTR goblins and orcs. Overall they do not look like $3 apiece plastics to me and it's just one sprue with some arm swaps anyway.
I also got an army box of Mantic Orcs for 25% off on clearance so that's $55 for 10 boar riders, 30 ax troops and 20 great ax (which are just ax troops with different arms). To round that out, I got a set with a metal Orc leader on boar, a little murdery looking sneaky goblin, and an Orc banner man, and a box of 10 Morax (who are dual hand ax fighters with metal arms), and a metal 'orc warlord' on foot. I was very amused to learn that Matic's Warpath Marauder Orx and their Kings of War Orcs are all made with the same two bodies with different heads and arms. I wonder if the Dwarves and the forgefathers are the same way? Sheesh!