In episode 6 of “Rings of Power” unveiled this Friday on Amazon Prime Video, Adar lifts the veil on his past, as well as on the sinister origin of the Orcs. Back to the gloomy appearance of these evil creatures.
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“When I was a child I heard stories of Elves being abducted by Morgoth. Tortured, twisted, turned into vile creatures. You are one of them, aren’t you?”
This is how Galadriel speaks against Adar in episode 6 of the Rings of Power, unveiled this Friday on Amazon Prime Video. This mysterious character, who seems to consider the Orcs as his own children and who boasts of having himself killed Sauron, thus appears as the illustration of the terrible process operated on certain Elves to transform them into Orcs.
Return on the sinister appearance of this people, such as it is described in the work of Tolkien.
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In the universe created by the legendary British writer, it is almost always through the perversion of beauty and goodness that evil is born. Thus, in the beginning, the Nazgûls were great kings of Men, and Gollum was an innocent Hobbit.
As for the first Orcs, it is between the pages of the Silmarillion that we discover their sinister origin. We learn that during the First Age of Middle-earth, the tenebrous Morgoth (greatest evil figure in Tolkien’s world, of which Sauron is only the right arm) created this evil people out of jealousy and hatred of Elves.
Having taken prisoner several of them in the bowels of his fortress Utumno, the lord of darkness would thus have subjected them to “long and learned tortures”thus creating “the hideous race of Orcs”. His goal: to turn these twisted ancient Elves against their fellow Elves, making the Orcs the oldest enemies of the Elven race on the battlefields of Middle-earth.
Even if Tolkien later evoked other completely different explanations concerning the appearance of the Orcs, this one remains the most commonly accepted, in particular in the films of Peter Jackson and in the series The Rings of Power.
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