Lord of the Rings from an orc's perspective

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@thegoodgeneral 9 дней назад

Orc's perspective: - wait to go into battle - go into battle - immediately die

@AverageAlien 9 дней назад

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@chromsh2806 9 дней назад

Lmfao

@yuggiiyer1640 8 дней назад

😂

@stanleyharno4534 8 дней назад

Get hit in the head with an axe and hear some dwarf yell "Fifteen!" as you fall to the ground.

@bob1234881 7 дней назад

Yep. That's what I was thinking. 😀

@Nedflandersmoon 9 дней назад

"We ain't had nothing but maggoty bread for three stinking days." - Orc That's some perspective and no mistake

@888johnmac 9 дней назад

lol , exactly the perspective i was thinking of

@BigBoss-xr8dg 8 дней назад

What about their legs?

@kingvarien 8 дней назад

@@BigBoss-xr8dgThey don't need them!

@bixbysnyder-00 8 дней назад

"What abouts them, they're freessh?" "THEY ARE NOT FOR EATING!". It's comforting that orcs also have to deal with middle management, as I do.

@gaynzz6841 7 дней назад

@@kingvarien Oooo they look tasty!

@greenjoseph4 9 дней назад

The LoTR from the orc’s perspective? “Where there’s a whip, there’s a way!”

@katherinegraham3803 9 дней назад

We don't wanna go to war today But the lord of the lash says "Nay, nay, nay!"

@trinefanmel 9 дней назад

Sauron: [issues marching orders] Orcs: Just like we rehearsed, boys! 1...2...3...

@pathfinder3405 9 дней назад

Where there’s a whip there’s a will ..

@mikevides4494 9 дней назад

@@katherinegraham3803 We're gonna march all day (all day, all day)!

@MandelbrotMetalhead 8 дней назад

My bosses get mad when I play that song. I don't see the problem

@Mark-uh3un 9 дней назад

I think the Shadow or Mordor games did a great job on giving orcs personalities beyond just mindless slaughter.

@ZlothZloth 9 дней назад

Calling the Battle of 5 Armies the Battle to Unfairly Ganging Up on the Orcs was brilliant!

@itshenry8977 9 дней назад

@@ZlothZloth they just wanted their portion of the wealth, the same as Elves and Humans, they're good guys too :D

@avrace2708 5 дней назад

Orcs dont have personality like normal races. They hate everything: humans, elves, other orcs, Sauron, nature, food nust everything. That's how Sauron create them. Even if for one short moment just like in the book 2 orcs can think of abandon Mordor army, hide somewhere living as bandits but free without Sauron control they few hour slay yourself without any problem. Same like rest of the 100s of orcs from Cirith Ungol Fortress. That's normal thing for orcs

@AntiNubDevice 2 дня назад

I only played the second, but I was really impressed with how much it made me care about my boys.

@6Sparx9 2 часа назад

@@itshenry8977 Except the fact they created from Morgoth's ring, like the dwarves, except Eru later gave the dwarves a true soul.

@In.Gy. 10 дней назад

Orc POV: Ohey, we're winning! 5 seconds later: Oh no...

@Flozone1 5 дней назад

There is a Russian novelle/fanfiction which tries to tell an alternate tell of how it all went down. It is a Soviet alternative perspective on Tolkien, where Aragorn and the elves are reactionary forces of traditionalism while Mordor is industrialised and moderned, the Nazgul are scientists and Sauron is the great engineer. The hellish industrial wasteland reversed.

@avrace2708 5 дней назад

@@Flozone1So he just copy book version of Saruman. Tolkien never liked how technology in almost every point is making ,,better" and ,,better" so fast no matter what will it cost

@flyingfetus4364 2 дня назад

@@avrace2708 Essentially yes. Of course they go in deeper and they're more like enlightenment Italy & revolutionary France in some ways, poetry, arts and rationality flourishes in Barad-dur, and they get invaded because the mirror predicted them using gunpowder, and also because they developed parliamentary monarchy, and the medieval/reactionary kingdoms don't like that.

@raistlin3462 9 дней назад

Orc perspective: "Screwed under Sauron, even more screwed without him." Even the book states how bleak their existence is.

@SwampCityRadio1974 4 дня назад

Basically, "the Putin dilemma".

@earthlymatters888 3 дня назад

@SwampCityRadio1974 you mean the zelensky dilemma?

@marino5652 3 дня назад

@@earthlymatters888you mean israel dilema

@treystephens6166 2 дня назад

No nice Orcs ???

@souljava3541 15 часов назад

“Smile! Tomorrow will be worse.”

@mishakachmazov3174 9 дней назад

Orcs perspective? I want to know the perspective of the orc scaling the wall of Helm’s Deep on a ladder while hearing a Dwarf counting…

@user-mk5rs2kc8c 3 дня назад

lmao

@CliffMcCauley 2 дня назад

I can help you there! “Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuuuu”

@yoooooooooojeff 2 дня назад

Uruk - hai

@Adeptus_Santos День назад

@@yoooooooooojeff hello 👋 😊

@Richard_Nickerson 9 дней назад

I *love* thinking about the Battle of Pelennor Fields from the Orc perspective: You've seemingly won, as you've almost conquered the city even without the Corsairs assistance. Suddenly, an army that should have been accounted for shows up behind you out of nowhere. To you, this likely means a good portion of your army has been completely slain. These horsemen also believe the battle is already lost. Their king rouses them with a speech about the end times & they charge with the fury of men *knowing* they are going to die. For the most part, they *sing* as they ride across the field. Then the Mûmakil & Witch-king probably give you hope, but not for long. I'm sure *every* member of Sauron's army present at the battle *felt* the fall of the Witch-king. Then Éomer finds Théoden & Éowyn, and rallies his men with cries of "death" in unison. Their rage has only increased & they've gone from singing to screaming "death", *thousands of voices in unison.* Then the ships of the Corsairs show up. This disheartens the Men & must cheer the Orcs. But instead of the Corsairs colors, there's a standard that hasn't been seen in a long time. Orcs might recognize it as what their master *hates.* This would, at best, *confuse tf* out of the Orcs. The horse riders, who have gone from singing to screaming as one, now begin *laughing* as they trample your allies on the field. Then the city of Minas Tirith releases its sortie while the warriors on the ships join the field & the horse riders continue to run off the Mûmakil & *gleefully* slay you and your allies. You went from being moments away from victory to utter defeat, while your deaths appear to be fun, like a child playing with toys. Wild stuff.

@Uncle_Fred 9 дней назад

I doubt any of the Orcs recognized that sigil. I'd guess that only highly educated Black Numenorian types might know it. Maybe a handful of the more educated Haradrium might since a Gondorian king had a presence there a few hundred years earlier.

@Richard_Nickerson 9 дней назад

@@Uncle_Fred I meant they *might* recognize it only in a sense via Sauron's hate, their all being connected to him via his dominion over their will and all. Same as how I said they probably all felt the fall of the Witch-king. I also did specifically say they "might" recognize it "as what their master hates", meaning they wouldn't have to know that it's related to Aragorn or Elendil, or know that it's the standard of the King of Gondor, but simply be related to Gondor or the vague foe. Sauron has the eye... What emblem did he teach the Orcs to hate?

@boffo63 9 дней назад

Well said

@Wolfeson28 9 дней назад

@@Uncle_Fred The orcs probably wouldn't know exactly what that specific sigil was, but they wouldn't have to. They'd realize it wasn't any of their own allied forces (as they'd initially expected), and they'd recognize how their enemies all immediately reacted to it with jubilation. That's about all the orcs would need to understand to realize that they were not about to be reinforced, but were, in fact, screwed.

@Uncle_Fred 9 дней назад

@@Wolfeson28 Yeah, I agree they would understand that.

@maxmaxmaxmax647 9 дней назад

"Wheres a whip theres a way" as the orcs use to say

@moritamikamikara3879 9 дней назад

We don't wanna go to war today! But the lord of the lash says "Nay nay nay!"

@auklon3372 9 дней назад

Edit: Devo agrees

@kiwwat4139 9 дней назад

@@moritamikamikara3879 We’re gonna march all day all day all daaaaaayyyy! Oh, where there’s a whip there’s a way.

@guyincognito1406 9 дней назад

Never forget, Sam started a race war…

@scottmccrea1873 9 дней назад

I think that was Rankin and Bass....

@YouKnowItsVain 5 дней назад

The orc perspective > 'ate humans > 'ate dwarves > 'ate elves > love me grog > love killin > simple as

@CaptainShenanigans42 3 дня назад

Murdermaxxing and grogmaxxing

@snp4619 3 дня назад

probably ate them too

@matthewrileymcleanwilkinson 2 дня назад

Ate each other...

@arandomexplosion День назад

Chad orc

@FourOf92000 10 дней назад

LotR from Elrond's perspective would be a neat take

@groguuuyoda9479 9 дней назад

Trying to cockblock aragorn 💀

@anonymous-hz2un 9 дней назад

@@groguuuyoda9479 he cockblocked just about everyone. It's pretty strongly implied that Arwen was a maiden.

@JesusChrist-vq6lk 9 дней назад

Already a video isn't it?

@Svensk7119 9 дней назад

I concur. Motion carries!

@Svensk7119 9 дней назад

@@anonymous-hz2unOf course, she's a maiden! Aragorn is a manden! Chastity would have been highly important to the Professor. We have a much more casual attitude about fornication than was possible before the advent of modern birth control. Ideal men and ideal women are chaste unto marriage. In the Silmarillion, Morgoth begins to contemplate rape, it is implied, (Luthien) but the Professor doesn't even use a synonym for it. He just hints at it obliquely. Being more direct about female abuse was... beyond him, I think.

@Fetch049 9 дней назад

This wasn't the orcs' perspective so much as their experience and movements.

@bigdog2432 3 дня назад

Jesus bro 😂 make your own video then

@Kelnx 9 дней назад

I often forget that Sloth from The Goonies got his start as a General for Sauron. Should be obvious when the rout at the Pelinor Fields began and you could hear him shouting "Hey YOU GUYS!".

@christianmino3753 9 дней назад

bro i legit read this right after the exact orc you are talking about at the end came on screen and im laughing so hard im in fucking tears. He comes on at 14:59

@dusky6280 9 дней назад

man what a GIGA boomer comment

@christianmino3753 9 дней назад

@@dusky6280 hey, other boomer here, does boomer have to be used negatively? I know this is like "meta boomer" right now, but I'm old and out of the loop nowadays. When someone says boomer does it have to be in a bad way?

@thing_under_the_stairs 9 дней назад

@@dusky6280 Just saying, the Goonies aren't boomer. That's late GenX/Millennial. Get your "you're old" insults right, at least! And get off the lawn I can't afford!

@spleespleeslacysploo 9 дней назад

Born 2003 and I love sloth also he was ogre in revenge of the nerds

@TalynDerre 9 дней назад

We don't wanna go to war today, but the Lord of the Lash says 'nay nay nay'...

@andrewlowden322 5 дней назад

we're gonna march all day all day all day

@NormanTheDormantDoormat 4 дня назад

All men, no women makes us ... ... ...

@UGNAvalon 3 дня назад

@NormanTheDormantDoormat Happy Happy Happy ? 🙃

@patsyroberts3967 9 дней назад

I always thought the Orc from Cirith Ungol calling anyone opposing Sauron rebels was very interesting. The the Orcs Sauron wasn't the rebel, he was the true Ruler of Middle Earth.

@moritamikamikara3879 9 дней назад

This isn't unusual. Human cultures do this too. It was well recorded during the opium wars that the Chinese in their literature and discourse referred to the British (who were foreign invaders from the other side of the fucking planet that they had had only minimal contact with before this) as rebels in much the same way.

@truthjustice6454 7 дней назад

Only the Cancelled Peoples (all know this by now) are even potential 'rebels' to malevolent hypocritical tyranny 😅

@richardpeel6056 8 дней назад

I'm interested in orc first aid, orcs seem to survive massive debilitating injuries and instead of being retired from active service carry healed wounds into battle.

@Killthefish 3 дня назад

I'm pretty sure the orc healing thing is just as simple as they heal very quick and have a sort of "immunity" to damage so when they lose a arm or leg they just shove a rusty metal one into its place and let it heal back over the new limb, I doubt they have actual healers or medics more like people who will find the ones breathing still and throw them into a pile and see who wakes up, if they dont wake up then meats on the menu

@YesYou- 3 дня назад

Right? We see some of them with cuts use metal like stitches😂

@thecappeningchannel515 2 дня назад

They probably had healers, musicians, smiths, bakers, inventors etc. Azog could write. So that means they had some type of schools for learning writing...

@talentosaproductions3363 2 дня назад

@20shutty06 2 дня назад

There is some kind of paste that's used for cuts and a restorative drink that burns. Merry receives this treatment from the Uruk Hai before the Riders of Rohan catch them.

@mightymulatto3000 9 дней назад

"Orc colleague" this is why this channel is the best!

@strpg9938 4 дня назад

There's a great book, where the main characters are an Umbarian medic, Orcish ranger, and Gondorian noble trying to destroy the Mirror and the Palantíri. Called The Last Ringbearer by Kiril Yeskov. The english translation is somewhat clunky, but I read the Czech official translation, commercially released, and it's great.

@davidbofinger 8 дней назад

I think this leads to a very interesting alternate history for Middle Earth. What if the orcs won at Pelennor Fields, burnt Minas Tirith, killed most of the main characters and then, at their moment of greatest triumph, the ring is destroyed. (The other alternate history I like is "What if Smeagol never kills Deagol and Saruman/Gandalf find out about the ring and tell Deagol he has to go to Mordor to destroy it.")

@darkjudge8786 6 дней назад

Sorry mate, no one cares. Maybe send your fan fiction to the twats making Rings of Power

@GregStachowski 9 дней назад

Look up a book called "The Last Ringbearer" by Kiril Yeskov, which takes a "history is written by the victors" approach to LotR and tells an alternative view of the story and the aftermath from the POV od the orc side.

@davidemelia6296 9 дней назад

I came here to say this. Fantastic book.

@BesoffenerIslamist 7 дней назад

gonna look for this

@philemonkaisa925 6 дней назад

It's more of a Soviet propaganda tho

@avrace2708 5 дней назад

No, its just another ,,I dont like Tolkien vision of his world so i will change it", bullshit same as Rings of Power

@IPlayWithFire135 Час назад

@@philemonkaisa925that’s a good thing

@Raz.C 6 дней назад

I genuinely appreciate the way you draw events from the books, and visuals from the movies. There are plenty of people out there whose only contact with Middle Earth is the movie/ series, so it's beyond wonderful that this channel (and a few select others) are able to offer a proper education on the history and events of that world.

@JordanBeagle 9 дней назад

12:10 Crazy that they must've been thinking "Well, we pulled off a miracle at Minis Tirith but there's no way out this one." Hence Gimli and Legolas' memorable words

@Stevoman123 9 дней назад

This man has possibly the most soothing voice on the planet. I’d listen the fuck out of the LOTR books read by this man.

@germanwulf40 8 дней назад

I love how Tokien didnt' create one-dimensional bad guys for Middle Earth; even the Orcs and Uruk-hai had individual personalities. Sad that they were unable to showcase much of this in the film. I mean, we see it a little, but not nearly as much as we're able to read in the books.

@ules5799 9 дней назад

I need to respect your love and knowledge for the subject, you are a great storyteller and you know what you're talking about. Keep up the good work and thank you for all the work you put into these.

@laurencewinch-furness9450 7 дней назад

"Ugluck. I've been thinking?" "Have courage, my friend, these Gondorians are all cowards" "Yeah, er, Ugluck, have you looked at our sheilds lately?" "No. Yes. A little bit, why?" "They've got burning red eyes on them. Have you noticed our sheilds have got actual pictures of burning red eyes on them." "Well?" Ugluck...are we the baddies?"

@lillylunarose1313 9 дней назад

As soon as I read the title of the video the song wair there's a whip there's a way started playing in my head

@Howardone 9 дней назад

Orc hearing violins...."Are we the baddies?"

@UGNAvalon 3 дня назад

“Yeah! Boss music! … Wait a minute… this isn’t _our_ boss music..”

@colepreston4872 9 дней назад

The red shirt of Sauron’s army That’s the best description Ever

@ATEC101 День назад

Orc: 'I am not wearing that.'

@richardmather1906 7 дней назад

One of the most interesting passages in LOTR is the conversation between Gorbag and Shagrat. Completely changed how I looked at Orcs after that.

@psychkosys 9 дней назад

This is just great. Thanks, Robert, for all that you do.

@Tezeran 9 дней назад

Very interesting video as always, but I was hoping for some more insights of the orcs. What ist their motivation? What drives them? Why do they think they are the "good ones" in their respective story? Why are our heroes the enemies to them? I'm looking forward to your video on orc culture and hopefully some questions might be covered there :)

@Nethan2000 8 дней назад

Tolkien said several times that Orcs were evil by nature (even if not irredeemably so). They hated sunlight and hated goodness. They engaged in pointless destruction whenever they had the occasion to do so. They were smart, but only used this intelligence in creating the tools of war.

@christophercoleman6596 3 дня назад

One thing about the Rohirrim: like the real-life Saxons, when a leader was slain, the army would not retreat, but defend their slain leader till all were killed or victory won. So even if Aragorn had not arrived, the Riders of Rohan would have fought on.

@orrointhewise3913 9 дней назад

Very interesting perspective Maybe lotr from Bill's perspective next? 🤔 🥹

@dh7314 6 дней назад

He was criminally overlooked in the movies

@mallninja9805 6 дней назад

Maybe LOTR from the Entwives perspective...

@orrointhewise3913 6 дней назад

@mallninja9805 Also a good one!!!!

@user-zb1sr4os9u 10 дней назад

Recently pondering that old geezer Treebeard who brought Merry and Pippin 70,000 Ent strides I'm human: a mile is about 2,000 paces (70,000 paces would be about 35 miles). If an Ent stride equals three human strides... he carried them over 100 miles. Really? Okay, I'll shut up now. Cheers

@dandiehm8414 9 дней назад

That is in a straight line on flat land with no obstacles. Fangorn provided none of those conditions. Many streams might only be forded at certain points and there were large elevation changes.

@user-zb1sr4os9u 8 дней назад

@@dandiehm8414 Excellent. Thanks, I hadn't given my head the freedom of nuance. Cheers bigly :-)

@gagaplex 7 дней назад

Ever read "The Last Ringbearer"? Not exactly the topic of your video, but that certainly made me think of this book.

@madsholbeck3716 7 дней назад

Yes! thank you very much! There are far too few videos on the internet delving into the characteristics of the orcs! Would love to see more like this

@Wiktor_Klugowski 4 дня назад

There is a great book by russian author Kirill Yeskov "The Last Ringbearer" telling the story from the point of view of Sauron's forces.

@awesomehpt8938 10 дней назад

Apparently they have restaurants in Isengard and Mordor. Since they understand the concept of menus. “Looks like meats back on the menu boys”

@user-fl9te5ur2n 10 дней назад

Oooo you’re biggest and finest stake

@cogitus73 10 дней назад

Well done (that's how orcs like their hobbits).

@DaBIONICLEFan 9 дней назад

If you're going off the films. The line was made up, (rather unfittingly imo) like the questionable line from Gimli about the "nervous system".

@Howardone 9 дней назад

With a side of maggoty bread

@ZlothZloth 9 дней назад

@@Howardone Whatever - just don't forget the grog!

@ForeverWog 9 дней назад

With the death of Bernard Hill, I’d love a deep dive into the story of Theoden.

@sampappas212 9 дней назад

Thanks for great, well thought out, and fun videos so regularly! 😄

@inthefade 9 дней назад

I would have liked to hear more about the way the armies of Mordor were fed. Did they have big evil farms? What do Orks even eat? I'm curious about food in general in Middle Earth. Can Elves starve to death? Does Gandalf need to eat?

@garethdean6382 9 дней назад

'Neither he nor Frodo knew anything of the great slave-worked fields away south in this wide realm, beyond the fumes of the Mountain by the dark sad waters of Lake Nurnen; nor of the great roads that ran away east and south to tributary lands, from which the soldiers of the Tower brought long waggon-trains of goods and booty and fresh slaves.'

@GregMcNeish 9 дней назад

Clearly the orcs don't have a robust livestock industry, or else they wouldn't have felt the need to say, "looks like meat's back on the menu".... From both a logistic/geological standpoint and a worldbuilding standpoint, the orcs live in the volcanic ash lands around Mt Doom, which means they have mineral-rich soil. Much like southern Italy/Sicily or Japan, it's likely ideal land for growing enormous quantities of wheat, and they probably do labour-intensive farming throughout the lands. Thematically, I could see the orc diet being largely built around a sort of "anti-lembas", the most depressing bread in the world. As for elves, considering how not particularly welcoming of non-elves they are, I doubt they would have built such cultural importance around lembas if sustenance was only something the other races had to worry about. Perhaps they have the ability to slow or even stop their metabolism through meditation or something when needed, but otherwise there's no indication that they are unaffected by hunger, fatigue, or other frailties that mortals experience, just at a slower pace. So, I would theorize that elves CAN starve to death, in the same way that they can be felled by a stab wound, despite being naturally immortal. Gandalf is a different story, though. He's a spiritual being that is taking the appearance of a man. I'm sure he and the other Istari ENJOY eating (a good hearty meal is one of the bedrock components of "a good life" in the morality of Tolkien, after all), but he has no actual need for it.

@kingvarien 8 дней назад

@GregMcNeish those particular orcs were also traveling

@GregMcNeish 8 дней назад

@@kingvarien True. Also, the use of the word "back" when referring to meat implies that it's at least occasionally on the menu. Mordor doesn't strike me as a place with plentiful wild animals, or being particularly hospitable to livestock, but other areas where orcs live would sensibly have both of those things. Overall, I guess I don't see a reason that their diet would be significantly different from humans, hobbits, etc.

@richardstephens5570 7 дней назад

@@GregMcNeish The "Looks like meat is back on the menu, boys!" line wasn't in the book, so don't take it as canon.

@annecarter5181 9 дней назад

Incredible amount of detail & complexity. Wow!!

@halthammerzeit День назад

Nik Pierumow did nice job, showing perspective of Mordor in his books. Elves and humans standing in way of progress and industrialization.

@taidee 9 дней назад

Thank you again Robert for your wonderful story telling. From you I think I can listen LOTR from anyone's perspective, you tell the story so well. And yes it's a worthy look for these beings who were doing all this under slavery.

@Dr_Cole 9 дней назад

This video and proffered were excellent. Seeing the timelines laid out and connected as well as the varying views and roles of the orcs was enlightening (despite their hatred of light!). Thank you.

@leehunt9238 7 часов назад

Very well crafted video, really enjoyed it.

@thecollector6746 9 дней назад

I distinctly remembering that in The Lost Tales Tolkien gave his take on what happened to The Orcs generally when Sauron fell for (hopefully) the last time and pretty much they did what they always did when either Melkor and or Sauron disappeared for ages on end : Like the Dwarves they generally withdrew (with some few exceptions. There have been Orcs who set up their own top-side communities and engaged in farm-work, craftsmenship and trade with local communities of Men and Dwarves with little to no conflict) back into their underground communities and went about minding their own business until eventually they passed out of common knowledge.

@CreationBrosZone-km5be 7 дней назад

Send their spirts back to Eru. Good luck trying to trade with a Mordo-infected Orc as he eats your entrails. Methinks you've forgotten what's been on the Orcish menu since the First Age. Middle Earth is not World of Warcraft. Tolkien's Orcs are irredeemably evil which is the whole point of their role in Middle Earth: they are incarnated spirits of Men (according to Tolkien's last musings on the subject), twisted to do evil because Morgoth put part of himself into them. Only Eru can save 'em.

@tylerosborn7596 9 дней назад

Another absolute banger of a video. Well done.

@late_night_club7217 6 дней назад

brilliant video. Thanks for the perspective!

@BrandonSellers_Unforgiven 6 дней назад

Just as a note, the orcs in Gundabad still largely worshipped Morgoth, as well as most of the misty mountain orcs, though I believe they participated to some extent in the war of the ring.

@GRAVEMIND08 10 дней назад

Love your videos! Don't suppose audible would let you narrate lotr? 😅

@flaviasoledadbriglia8561 9 дней назад

I can recommend the audiobook version of LOTR narrated by @natalie_kendel (here, in RU-vid) . She has a beautiful voice ❤

@JesusChrist-vq6lk 9 дней назад

I suggested this a year or so ago.. more as a youtube video.. each chapter could be a video

@GRAVEMIND08 9 дней назад

@flaviasoledadbriglia8561 I'm currently listening to it narrated by Andy Serkis. But will definitely give her a listen next.

@GRAVEMIND08 9 дней назад

@JesusChrist-vq6lk Thanks for the reply Jesus, can I just say I love your earlier work 😉 That's actually a good idea! Don't even need audible. Keeps the RU-vid fan base. 👍

@Polskiprepper1 9 дней назад

Or perhaps these on Spotify

@tuurlijk 10 дней назад

1:52 orconomy

@jcwoodman5285 3 дня назад

I've always been a bit surprised that Tolkien never elaborated on Orc home life, culture etc.. Female orcs? Children?

@methodsocratic 9 дней назад

Excellent. Yes plz to more orc info, culture, etc.

@taotaostrong 9 дней назад

Thanks so much for this post. Interesting perspective.

@thomaspremeparsons9390 10 дней назад

I love your analysis’s.

@malcolmjcullen 10 дней назад

*analyses.

@dashcarter1101 9 дней назад

I've also never thought about the Orcs, other than being mindless, evil creatures. But they're clearly more than that. I love this commentary on their perspective.

@bigmangaming6307 6 дней назад

this POV series is fire

@thatguywithamustache6043 9 дней назад

I absolutely love how you speak friend

@Monkeyboy2457 6 дней назад

Pure English. No accent. Sounds very proper.

@floridaprepper751 5 дней назад

Very interesting video, thank you sir.

@antonyreyn 3 дня назад

Fun fact the name Tolkien is contained within the name Thorkelin who was the first translator of Beowulf. Cheers

@geoffishy 9 дней назад

Fantastic video as always :)

@Slayer_of_Bacon 3 дня назад

Interesting, Cheers, I read all the books 2 or 3 times back in the 80s but it's still nice to hear something different about them.

@andrewmurray1084 9 дней назад

So to summarise, 'Lord of the Rings from an orc's perspective' was: depressing, brutal, terrifying & then very swiftly ...over! (Though for the record, I'd honestly LOVE to read a tongue-in-cheek retelling of LOTR, from the perspective of an Orcish, Anti Frodo & Sam; desperately seeking a quiet life, while getting swept up in the epic conflict! Perhaps in the vein of Ciaphas Cain, Blackadder, Fred Colon & Nobby Nobbs, Tag & Bink or 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead' etc.)

@inthefade 9 дней назад

That could be amazing if done right; It could even be done in a way where it is ambiguous enough, or satirical enough, with the setting to make it copyright friendly.

@danpearman270 9 дней назад

While not 100% LotR based, you might enjoy 'Grunts' by Mary Gentle - that's a comedic story of 'the Final Battle' from the perspective of a bunch of orcs serving a Dark Lord.

@gregcox777 9 дней назад

You might want to dig up a copy of "The Last Ringbearer." It's a Russian retelling that treats LotR as Western propaganda.

@TheMinskyTerrorist 9 дней назад

Yes that's The Last Ringbearer but it sucks, it's made by someone who didn't actually pay attention to the story

@CryptidRenfri 9 дней назад

@@gregcox777 Western propaganda? Dang, those Ruski's never really got any less batshit, did they?

@amandae5165 9 дней назад

I LOVE this channel!!!

@Mangolite 2 дня назад

It’s nice that this is a serious essay rather than a witty spoof.

@ptonpc 8 дней назад

I suspect most of them really had no idea what was going on most of the time. "Go there, Do that".

@sheridansherr8974 5 дней назад

A russian author actually wrote a book like that. You can find it online after some research. Its written from the perspective of an orc.

@jackdavis855 9 дней назад

As usual very interesting thanks! Keep the LOTR content coming!

@matthewhudson5685 19 часов назад

Brilliant. Undoing the common, superficial perceptions and looking deeper for truths. Even if uncomfortable to find.

@NB4fun 9 дней назад

Hey Robert! I love your lotr content and I am patiently waiting for your rerelease of Gollum: A Character Study! It was genuinely one of my favorite videos on the entire internet and I was sad to see you made it private!

@firatsanliturk 3 дня назад

An orc's 'loyalty' depends hugely on his proximity to a loyal overlord or captain. Captains are expected to and depended on keeping the common footsoldiers or "maggots" in line. Just a slight deviation from the strictest of enforcements and the common orc instantly starts scheming and planning for selfish reasons. You can find hints of this in almost any interaction between two orcs. And they all seem to have their personal drives and dreams. Some dream of promotion, some of "plundering in peace", some of escape from slavery. So it wouldn't be such a reach to say that the common orc perspective - regardless of their tribe, location or overlord - would be "I wish we'd be done with all this soon, so that we can see if we can all go on our business".

@cupoftea4787 5 дней назад

Amazing learning about earths history

@windsaw151 9 дней назад

Have we ever given a hint that the orcs of the Misty Mountains were in any way under the control of Sauron? People always seem to assume that, but I think there is no evidence besides the assumption that "They are orcs, aren't they? So they must be under his control." I always assumed that the presence of the Balrog blocked his influence. Also: They were far from Mordor for millenia and mostly surrounded by force hostile to them. None of the wars they have waged seem to be in any way coordinated events, they were just instigated by local warlords when given an outside opportunity. The only period where they could have been under Saurons direct influence may have been the north of the Misty Mountains during the Witch King's rule in Angmar. But even here I don't recall that his forces included orcs. It seems to me they were not part of his plans.

@MusaFinderi 12 часов назад

Sauron kept Mordor orcs' motivation high by blasting Gorgoroth from his tower

@jolinefields3460 7 дней назад

This was excellent 🎉

@santiagolopez9034 17 часов назад

I don't like the fact the orcs just went extinct. There was bound to be some living somewhere, preferably in an environment that is difficult for people to traverse in that were never found. There was also places deep underground where nameless things lived, which I imagine orcs could have ventured to if they were pushed out of the surface. There was a whole ecosystem down there I'm pretty sure.

@jamesgwoodwork 8 дней назад

Love the interspersed "War in the North" visuals. Such a great game that deserves a remaster so it's playable on next gen consoles.

@Kryptarch 15 часов назад

I wonder what Tolkien would've said about the rebel uruk-hai in Mordor if he was asked to expand on them...personally I find the notion of some of Sauron's forces rebelling against him extremely interesting, and the fact they're Uruk-hai (which I've always thought were cool) makes it even more awesome

@matthewsanchez7953 День назад

Imagine being an Orcish artisan, just trying to finish up a cool project, when all of the sudden the Big Boss said it's time to go die...

@randydewees7338 9 дней назад

Can you imagine how tough it would be for an orc dentist?

@bluestrife28 2 дня назад

I like this. Any time I read the stories I can only picture the people from the movies since.

@catherinewood948 8 дней назад

Thanks!

@autoloadable 3 дня назад

I am new here! thank you!

@ToothpikcOriginal 9 дней назад

Thanks for the video :) Still got my fingers crossed for a video on the life of Fingolfin someday

@Breacca 9 дней назад

Try reading "The Last Ringbearer" by Kirill Yeskov. You can only find it as an ebook because they were afraid of legal actions fom the tolkien family, so it is not printed. I found it as good and well written as the original, with a really novel point of view.

@bsmnt23 7 дней назад

Reminds me of one of my favorite books, Orcs! by Mary Gentle. It's a bit tongue in cheek, and there's a lot of other things, but it's basically a Tolkien pastiche told from a company of orcs and it's hilarious how they describe all the High Fantasy tropes.

@yellowrose0910 9 дней назад

Ever read GRUNTS by Mary Gentle? Excellent snarky book about how the Orcs see things!

@user-wg4wq6ss5b 9 дней назад

I like Orcs, by Stan Nicholls.

@Crazylegs677 9 дней назад

I can't help but think I am going crazy. Didn't this channel have a video about the titular towers of the second movie/book and which of the 4 towers in question were the namesake?

@martinsmith6049 3 дня назад

Reminds me of some parts of Croydon

@tims4502 8 дней назад

Would be cool to see a Band of Brothers style docudrama from a company of Orcs

@earthknight60 9 дней назад

The 1999 book, *The Last Ringbearer* by Kirill Yeskov, addresses this exact question. It is a non-canon look at the end of LoTR and what happens afterward from the perspective of one of the orcs, which in this interpretation is a racial slur, not a term to refer to a seperate type of race.

@daniell1483 9 дней назад

I can't help but feel kind of sorry for the orcs. Many were cruel and evil, but many seemed to desire a normal life. The orcs from Moria, because they'd been without Sauron's dark guidance for so long, seemed the most independent. It is strange to think, but many orcs probably thought they were the good guys and didn't understand why all their efforts turned to dust and ruin.

@alphax4785 8 дней назад

Orcs are truly cursed, an abominable corruption of elves so atrocious Eru kindled true life into the dwarves and created the races of men to be mortal with their souls going beyond the reach of even the Valar on death. But the orcs remain, trapped and waiting on Middle Earth for Melkor or one of his lieutenants (one big reason the orcs of Moria were independent of Sauron's control is because the Balrog was there) or even a power hungry angel like Saruman to call them forth again. Of course with all the fallen angels physically destroyed by the end of the story... there's no dark lord who can ever reawaken them until the Final Battle.

@woody5476 8 дней назад

I'm really interested to hear your thoughts on The Hunt for Gollum. They're going to make a full movie off of a few sentences in the books.

@tseyazmutseyami1402 10 дней назад

You are a legend

@ohmyrod88 2 дня назад

Who are the baddest orcs in all of middle earth? I’d love to know! Great vid!

@Wordfishtrombone 9 дней назад

I didn’t expect their perspective to be so engaging! Great idea for a discussion!

@stevewright6632 3 дня назад

11:04 good to remember Sauron thought Aragorn had the Ring at this point or assumed. After their chat through the palintir

@troublemaker9899 День назад

Orks are like angels. They have no free will. They can complain, and they can cry out in pain when they are struck, but they will not suddenly decide to make peace with Sauron's enemies.