Dominions:
Language: Average Height: Skin Color: Hair Color: Distinctions: Lifespan: Members: |
Misty Mountains, Moria, Mount Gram, High Pass, Mordor, Isengard, Mount Gundabad
Orkish, Black Speech, Westron 3 – 6 Feet, sometimes 7 Feet Black, Gray, Sallow, Tan, Khaki, Pale-Green (Rare), White (Rare) Varies (Usually Bald) Dark, Mottled Skin, Tall, Poweful, Muscular Torso Possibly Immortal Azog, Bolg, Gothmog, Grishnákh, Ugluk |
Morgoth imprisoned and tortured the Elves in the dungeons of Angbad and the cess-pits of Dol-Guldur. He forged them in agony and cruelty until every good instinct towards beauty and nobility had been driven out of them. Now they are reduced to hideous, vicious creatures called Orcs.
Orcs tend to be short, squat and intolerant of sunlight (due to being bred in darkness), cannibalistic and hard to kill. They are bigger, tougher and nastier than their subterranean cousins, the Goblins. Due to living above ground they tend to be less stunted and diseased than the Goblins also. Orcs are tribal and are as likely to turn on each other as they are the free peoples and animals of Middle-earth.
Orcs aren’t schooled or disciplined and know no fear. They are fuelled by an ever-burning hatred of all things that thrive in the light.
Orcs tend to be short, squat and intolerant of sunlight (due to being bred in darkness), cannibalistic and hard to kill. They are bigger, tougher and nastier than their subterranean cousins, the Goblins. Due to living above ground they tend to be less stunted and diseased than the Goblins also. Orcs are tribal and are as likely to turn on each other as they are the free peoples and animals of Middle-earth.
Orcs aren’t schooled or disciplined and know no fear. They are fuelled by an ever-burning hatred of all things that thrive in the light.
Orcs are armed with scavenged and remade weapons and their only delight is to inflict pain and terror on to others, as if to echo the torments their kind endured in a bygone age, although they have no recollection of this history. They once spoke the melodic Elven tongue, now just as their faces and forms have been corrupted, so has the language that they now speak. They speak in the tainted tongue of Black Speech, an ugly mixture of guttural consonants and harsh snarls.
Orcs are deadly dangerous to travellers and are found all over Middle-earth, often seen as far as Mirkwood and the edges of the Golden Wood of Lothlórien. They are used in battle by Saruman and Sauron, and now have multiplied and become the most numerous of the enemy’s minions and fighters.
Orcs are deadly dangerous to travellers and are found all over Middle-earth, often seen as far as Mirkwood and the edges of the Golden Wood of Lothlórien. They are used in battle by Saruman and Sauron, and now have multiplied and become the most numerous of the enemy’s minions and fighters.
NOTABLE ORCS
AZOG
The Hobbit Trilogy |
MANU BENNETT
The Hobbit Trilogy |
OTHER ORCS
GORBAG
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King NARZUG
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug |
STEPHEN URE
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King BEN MITCHELL
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug |
GOTHMOG
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King SHAGRAT
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
LAWRENCE MAKOARE
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King PETER TAIT
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King |
SHARKU
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
JED BROPHY
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
SNAGA
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |
JED BROPHY
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers |