The origin(s) of orcs were explained two different ways (i.e., inconsistently) by Tolkien: the orcs were either East Elves (Avari) enslaved, tortured, and bred by Morgoth (as Melkor became known), or, "perhaps.. Avari [(a race of elves)].. [turned] evil and savage in the wild", both according to The Silmarillion.
During Galadriel's interrogation of Adar, viewers learn he is one of the "Moriondor," or "Sons of the Dark." He, along with many of his kin, were captured and tortured by Morgoth to the point that they no longer considered themselves Elves. They instead became Uruks, Black Speech for Orc.
Tolkien tells us that Morgoth, incapable of creation, could make evil creatures by distorting and debasing good ones. Thus he created the race of orcs from elves who were born under his dark dominion through some process of torture and magic. This means that orcs are living beings with souls, just as elves are.
Adar. As explained in the previous episode's recap, “Adar” is Tolkien's elvish word for “father,” and it's the name the orcs overtaking the Southland use for their mysterious leader. Now we've seen who they're talking about, and he turns out to be an elf himself.
The one-time elf was doing it for his orc children whom he loves, many of whom Sauron had sacrificed in his quest to rule Middle-earth. Adar wanted to give The Rings of Power's orcs a new home, one where they would not only be safe from light but safe from Dark Lords who treat them as disposable.
In-fiction origins
The origin(s) of orcs were explained two different ways (i.e., inconsistently) by Tolkien: the orcs were either East Elves (Avari) enslaved, tortured, and bred by Morgoth (as Melkor became known), or, "perhaps.. Avari [(a race of elves)]..
The first Dark Lord Melkor took hostage some Elves from Cuiviénen. He tortured them, beat them, and broke their bodies into the first deformed and twisted beings known as Orcs. Tolkien confirmed that female Orcs did exist.
Turns out, Adar was one of the first orcs ever created — explaining why the orcs call him "father" in Sindarin. As Galadriel explains, in the First Age, the Dark Lord Morgoth captured and tortured elves, turning them into twisted, ruined creatures that would later become the orcs as we know them.
They should be able to outperform most of their rivals, if not all of them. That is part of the fun of film-making. In Tolkien's Middle-earth the Elves were generally stronger and faster than the Orcs; the Orcs usually only won through deceit and weight of numbers.
Azog is depicted in the films as a huge, fearsome-looking and herculean orc, the most developed example of the Orc species in all of Middle-earth.
Aragorn is not half Elf, although he is a descendant of Elros, who is half Elf (and the brother of Elrond, the half-Elf who raised him), which explains why Aragorn's life span is unusually long.
After Sauron's defeat, Aragorn and his army killed the remaining Orcs in Mordor. It can be assumed that any Orcs in the Lonely Mountain would have also escaped once they got to know about their master's downfall.
Half-orcs do not get along with much races. They rarely get along with elven races or dwarves due to the racial enmity between either and orcs. Halflings and gnomes do not trust half-orcs although they do not hate them as much as the elves and dwarves.
Uniya is the term used in Jrusar for people in Exandria who have both elvish and orcish lineage and so are both half-elf and half-orc. Another name for uniya is elf-orcs.
Azog is played by Manu Bennett via motion-capture and CG (though he was originally intended to be played by Conan Stevens in a practical costume and makeup). He is a white-skinned Orc, known as the Pale Orc or Azog the Defiler. According to Balin, he is from Gundabad.
In fact, the The Silmarillion does state that Orcs were Avari (Dark Elves) captured by Morgoth (p.
In The Book of Lost Tales, it is said that Orcs were "bred from the heats and slimes of the earth" through the sorcery of Morgoth. Again, Tolkien later changed this, as Morgoth could not create life on his own. This led to the most popular theory that Orcs were created from corrupted Elves.
Lurtz was the first and one of the strongest orcs known as the Uruk-Hai that were created by Saruman the White. He led a party of Uruk-Hai to Amon Hen, where they intercepted the Fellowship of the Ring and tried to capture Frodo.
Uruk-hai (for short, Uruks) were brutal warriors of Middle-earth, and the strongest breed of Orc. In The Lord of the Rings, the term Uruk-hai refers chiefly to those bred in Isengard, and in one context are alternatively called Isengarders, while Uruks from Mordor are called Black Uruks or Uruks of Mordor.
Bolg was the son of Azog, succeeding his father as a prominent leader of the northern Orcs after Azog was killed by Dáin Ironfoot at the Battle of Azanulbizar in Third Age 2799.
I think there are other actors of color who are doing a superb job, but there are four in particular in The Rings of Power who have been objected to. I think most of the objections have been against Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova), who is the Black elf. He's one of the immortal elves of Tolkien's legendarium.
Character races like orcs, goblins, and dark elves are no longer identified as “typically evil;” they may be good or evil as defined by how they act, according to the will of their player. God created us in his own image.
Yes, female orcs do exist in Middle-earth.
“There must have been orc-women,” Tolkien wrote. “But in stories that seldom, if ever, see the Orcs except as soldiers of armies in the service of the evil lords, we naturally would not learn much about their lives.
They were conceived of by Morgoth during the Years of the Trees, serving him and later his successor, Sauron, in their quest to dominate Middle-earth. Before Oromë first found the Elves at Cuiviénen, Melkor kidnapped some of them and cruelly deformed them, twisting them into the first Orcs.
The life span of an orc is relatively short by Azerothian standards. Though elves can live to be thousands of years old, the orcs are lucky if they even get close to 100 years of age.