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Dec 20, 2017 · While its initial setting as a light, quick-paced children's book may have influenced the initial choice of words, the reason words such as Goblin become Orc and Necromancer become Sauron, is because of its introduction into the greater mythology that Tolkien began building decades before The Hobbit. The word Orc does appear in The Hobbit, 2 ...
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Azog's origins are untold. He entered history in the year TA 2790 due to King Thrór's desire to revisit and perhaps restore the lost realm of Khazad-dûm. Thrór encountered Azog there, and Azog beheaded him, carving his name in Thrór's head and throwing the body back to Nár, the sole Dwarf who had accompanied the King. Azog demanded that Nár deliver...
Azog is mentioned briefly in The Hobbit by Gandalf, who says to Thorin II, "Your grandfather Thrór was killed, you remember, in the mines of Moria by Azog the Goblin," to which Thorin responds "Curse his name, yes". Incidentally, this is the only place that J.R.R. Tolkien refers to Azog as a "goblin"; elsewhere in The Lord of the Rings he describes...
The Hobbit film trilogy
1. "Moria had been taken by legions of Orcs led by the most vile of their race... Azog the Defiler. The giant Gundabad Orc had sworn to wipe out the line of Durin. He began... by beheading the king." 2. —Balin, in The Hobbit: An Unexcpected Journey For The Hobbit film trilogy trilogy, Peter Jackson greatly altered the life of Azog, having him survive the Battle of Azanulbizar, losing his arm to Thorin instead of his head to Dáin, and thus living to become one of the three main antagonists in...
Video games
In The Lord of the Rings Online, Azog appears in an extended flashback depicting the beginning and the end of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. Azog's youngest son Komog is slain in the halls of Gundabad, while his eldest son Urro is killed by Thorin II during the Battle of Azanulbizar in the same engagement that earns him the name "Oakenshield". Bolg survives as his only heir by escaping into Moriashortly before Azog is killed by Dáin. In the present day, Azog's descendants continue to plague...
LEGO
Azog first appeared as a 2013 San Diego Comic Con exclusive LEGO minifigure giveaway. He appears in the 2013 Desolation of Smaug set Dol Guldur Battle.His minifigure carries a mace as a weapon and features a head piece and a prosthetic arm. In his LEGO version, his skin is tan, but in the movie it is pale (almost white).
Jul 24, 2024 · Orc-kind is a genus that includes the species of Orcs, Goblins, Hobgoblins, Half-orcs, Boggarts, Bugans and Uruk-hai. Orcs are very common in Middle-earth. They are about the size of a man with a hunchback, though some of the sub-races are of larger or smaller stature. 2011: The Lord of the Rings: War in the North:
- Morgoth, Sauron
- Free Peoples of Middle-earth
- Disputed; see Orcs/Origin
"Tolkien creates them to represent all that is bad about modern war." —Lynette Nusbacher in The Story of J.R.R. Tolkien: Master of the Rings Orcs were the primary soldiers of both Dark Lords' armies, and their most common servants. Invented by Morgoth during the Years of the Trees of the First Age, they served him and later his successor, Sauron, in their aims to dominate Middle-earth. It ...
May 13, 2024 · The origin of the Orcs is never definitely explained in J.R.R. Tolkien 's works. Throughout the years, he changed the explanation, but he was doubtful because of the theological implications of an evil race and the relations of fëa and hröa in his cosmology. As Tolkien died without deciding on a final explanation, the canonicity of the origin ...
Oct 21, 2007 · (2) Orc is not an English word. It occurs in one or two places but is usually translated goblin (or hobgoblin for the larger kinds). Orc is the hobbit's form of the name given at that time to these creatures, and it is not connected at all with our orc, ork, applied to sea-animals of dolphin-kind. The Hobbit, p.1
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Aug 8, 2024 · Notable Misty Mountain Orcs include the Great Goblin (whom Gandalf killed in The Hobbit), Azog (who led the Moria Orcs), and Bolg (who led the Misty Mountain Orcs in the Battle of Five Armies). Orcs are often called Goblins in The Hobbit, and Tolkien later clarified that this was simply a different English translation for Orc-kind.
