The name of the prominent "White Orc" or "Pale Orc" in The Hobbit films was Azog the Defiler, a powerful Orc chieftain from Moria and the archenemy of Thorin Oakenshield, known for beheading Thorin's grandfather and initiating the War of the Dwarves and 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.
Azog was an Orc "king" of the Third Age who commanded the tribes of Moria until his death in TA 2799.
Azog held a grudge against the Dwarves of Durin's folk and vowed until the last of the Durin Dwarves were destroyed completely. Around the time of 2799, Azog started his elimination of the Durin line by beheading the Dwarves' king, Thror.
According to Galadriel, when the Elves first awoke at the beginning of the First Age, Adar was possibly one of many who were taken by Morgoth. He was tortured and twisted and became one of the first Orcs, a new and ruinous form of life.
He is a Sindar Elf of the Woodland Realm and son of its king, Thranduil, becoming one of the nine members of the Fellowship who set out to destroy the One Ring. Though Dwarves and Elves are traditionally rivals, he and the Dwarf Gimli form a close friendship during their travels together.
George Sayer has remarked that Tolkien's dislike of the novels derived from "assembling figures from various mythologies" and that the books "were carelessly and superficially written." On the other hand, his granddaughter Joan Anne Tolkien remembers that her grandfather directed her to reading his copies of The ...
Why did Fili and Kili have to die? There are a few different theories as to why Tolkien had Fili and Kili die at the end of The Hobbit. One theory is that he was emphasizing the important and loyal role that Fili and Kili had as sister-sons of Thorin, an important relationship in medieval literature.
The Balrog killed Durin VI, the Dwarf-King of Khazad-dûm, whereafter it was called Durin's Bane by the Dwarves. Avarice, principally for mithril, drove the dwarves to go too deep and awaken the Balrog. The Dwarves attempted to fight the Balrog, but its power was far too great for them.
He is no mere orc but also isn't a Uruk hai : r/lotr.
Uruk-hai (a pure Black Speech form, rendered as Uruks in English) were brutal warriors of Middle-earth, and the strongest breed of Orc.
He was a Stoorish hobbit which is one of the three races of hobbit in Middle Earth, and he went by the name of Smeagol. He came from a prominent family who lived by the Anduin River. He became the creature named Gollum when he came into possession of the powerful ring known as the One Ring.
Boldog was an Orc-name or personal title used by several Maiar that took on the physical form of a primitive Orc during the First Age.
Likely related to Goons and Goblins, Blue Orcs were a species of (usually) horned humanoids with light blue skin and bright blue whiskers. Blue Orcs lived in Prydain in the Dark Ages, and seemed to mostly live as warriors.
The Irish word fir means "men" and the word bolg/bolc can mean a belly, bag, sack, bellows, and so forth.
Azog (also known as the Defiler) (Late Third Age—TA 2941) was a criminal Orc warlord and Thorin Oakenshield's archenemy. He was once an Elf, but later mutated to be an evil orc by Morgoth.
As a Maia, Gandalf was an angelic being in human form, in service to the Creator (Eru Ilúvatar) and the Creator's 'Secret Fire'. He took on the specific form of an old man as a sign of his humility. His role was to advise but never to attempt to match Sauron's strength.
In the books, Legolas actually screamed in terror when he realized that a Balrog was coming. It was the Balrogs that rounded up the elves for Morgoth, to be corrupted into orcs.
But at the Council of Elrond, Gandalf very specifically says he fought all nine. He drew four of them off when he fled northward at dawn; "This helped, a little, for there were only five, not nine, when your camp was attacked."
After the battle, the Arkenstone was placed by Bard upon Thorin's chest within his tomb deep underneath Erebor, and so was returned to the earth at last.
Tauriel (born c. TA 2341) is an elf who was also Kili's true love and soul mate. She also once served in Mirkwood before falling in love with teh Dwarf prince and had the affection of Legolas, who she would only see as a friend.
The main clue is the Hobbits' "coming of age" at 33, due to their extended childhood and adolescence. This would compare to a typical Man coming of age at 18 to 21. Thus, a Hobbit at 50 was a young adult, equivalent to being about 30, maybe 27, in human years.
On 27 October 1916, as his battalion attacked Regina Trench, Tolkien contracted trench fever.
Aslan is depicted as a talking lion and is described as the King of Beasts, the son of the Emperor-Over-the-Sea, and the King above all High Kings in Narnia.
The Chronicles of Narnia books, especially The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, have faced challenges and bans in various places, primarily for their overt Christian allegories (like Aslan as Christ), which some found inappropriate for public schools due to church-state separation concerns, while others objected to the "graphic violence, mysticism, gore," and perceived sexism or racism in the series, though these objections are often considered a stretch by many readers.