I was in the crowd at Westpac stadium, Wellington, NZ - when Peter Jackson got the 30,000 people to chant all this at half time of a cricket match I think it was - very odd, but epic.
You find that weird... and yet I’ve heard futbal chants that degrade their own teams... also look up the EUEspkrts chants one I remember is (Tom’s a wanker fuck you tom) but there wasn’t anyone named Tom...
According to the lore one thing that instilled fear in the hearts of men, elves, and dwarves was the chanting and drums of the Orcs. After hearing this I can understand why.
Just so everyone knows, the war chanting at first is the Easterlings. As soon as you hear the drums amd the chant "Katmuda!", that is the Orcs of Minas Morgul
@@joshuahartsock2477 Mate, I have all 6 movies in the normal and extended editions. In this video, the chanting all the way up to the drums is the Easterlings. And as soon as you here "Katmuda" during the drums, its the Orcs marching to Minas Tirith
@@amordramon22 Yes u right that chanting till the Orcdrumms are from the easterlings. But the easterling's Chant in this Video is from the Part where the two easterlings who were standing in front of Frodo and Sam went back into formation. And by the way, i've seen all those movies in the theater and read the books including the silmarillion.
I used to have goosebumps listening to these orc war-chants at the theater. What is so great about this movie is that even these relatively unimportant details are ridiculously well-made.
The entire series was a labor of love for everyone. It was at times difficult and annoying but they all seemed to enjoy it and put the maximum effort in it.
I once DMd a D&D campaign where the heroes and their rallied army were defending a coastal walled city against a massive orc siege. They were outnumbered 12 to 1, and surrounded on 3 sides. I set up 7 surround sound speakers around the room and put a subwoofer under the table for bass. They were trying to gather intel on the army and using the elf’s sight to tell formations and numbers. I played this, the table shook with the steps and the drum beats so hard that everyone felt it. They were so afraid and I loved every second of it
@@felipe96ification yeah i agree, but just imagine if the uruks manage to survive after the third age? Makes me wonder how much they would assimilate into the open world.
This is crazy to hear. Imagine this thundering across a plain while you watch as an Ithiliean Ranger from a nearby hill. The shit the Men of Middle-Earth had to deal with was insane. Morgoth and then Sauron after him had massive armies of these orcs, the threat of them invading and eating the bodies as people were slain or enslaved by them. Terrifying to ponder
All the sins of mortals compacted into a society they represent. Not unlike primitive examples of mankind, when we first discovered how to organize against whatever we deemed to be an enemy. And in modern times, what I call "Orcish" behavior, primitive, uncivilized, bestial, and most of all, abusive, remains rampant throughout the culture of men (as in all humanity, mind you.) Let us acknowledge the gravity of the cultural statement that such mythical societies make, and remember that to fear such things is in our blood. Hearing something of this sort or even witnessing a description of an Orc-like being imbues many with a deep-rooted fear that we likely inherit from our survival against Neanderthals and other rival human types.
@@tinobemellow we still do. Imagine what the rest of middle earth would do to each other once they are not united against a greater threat, realistically. Let me start with the dwarves chopping tree because their industry depend on coal and firewood.
@@lazysunside Indeed, I have no doubt that is what Tolkien intended. If, as might be interpreted from the full-scale story, the events of the Elder Ages (from the creation of the Sun and Moon and the awakening of Men to the Fall of Barad-Dur and Crowning of King Elessar) were to take place in the context of the Holy Bible, and Barad-Dur is taken thus to be the Tower of Babel, then the Free Peoples must surely have bickered and dwindled themselves into flight southeast, as the focus of the tales seem to shift; the Men of the Dunedain realms going down the sad path of Egypt and Rome and oppressing their neighbor cultures to feed their own bloated traditions, the Elves flying north out of the history and into the legend of Men, and what Dwarves did not follow the Elves likely taking the southward road with many men fleeing the barbarism of Easterlings and the domination of Gondor, likely becoming the ancestors of early Semitic peoples, perhaps even the ancestors of the people of Noah who survived the Great Floods.
Saw the movies when I was around preschool or kindergarten age and never forgot these sounds. Thats when you know the production team did a damn good job
This is phenomenal audio work. Sauron’s army was an immutable force, and this audio-work perfectly exudes a sense of the scale, terror and malice it represented.
As much as I have grown to love Warhammer and the orks from it, the orcs from LOTR I feel have a much more terrifying nature to them. Much more disciplined and cold hearted. They resemble humans much closer which is in many ways more horrifying.
Imagine being one of the humans seeing an army of orcs ascending from the other side of the hills, and hearing the chants get louder and louder as they march closer. Especially if you're one of the soldiers on the front. That looks terrifying.
The Anglo-Saxons apparently sounded terrifying at the Battle of Hastings according to Norman sources. They all smashed their spears against their shields in unison and, ironically, chanted 'Orcs, Ūt! Orcs, Ūt! Orcs, Ūt Ūt Ūt!' and they kept it up throughout the entire battle. Orc is Old English for 'monster' and was also a derogatory word for 'foreigner'
I think the orcs have to be my favorite fantasy race wherever they can be found. I just like the way they make their weapons and armor and the brutality when they go to war never disappoints.
Orcs are also my favorite fantasy race. I just hate how they turned into pig people as time has gone on. Like the old world of Warcraft art with that orc with the heads of three night eleven dangling on his hip
@@dudemanbroguy3464 I would think that orcs would be more "apeish" with some "wolfish" features mixed in. The goblins strike me as having the features of cave dwelling creatures like bats. Trolls have a lot of robust mammalian features.
@@dudemanbroguy3464 they have changed because orcs as tolkien imagined them are goblins (he used the words interchangeably), thus when later creaters wanted them to be separate from goblins they had to change them.
More memorable? For you yeah but its becouse its a damn song. This is the true sound of the beginning of war, atleast back in the day. Thousands and thousands marching in pace chanting bombing dem drums or atleast some kind of fear invoking sounds mixed with all Those feets keeping a steady sound of marching towards you. Would hear it miles away
@@powergt3597 actually they do feal fear, the books mention them being scared of elves, nazgul and sauron, they also run in fear from the rangers of ithilien in the books until the nazgul arrive and they get full of unnaturla bravery (implieing there is some kind of magic making them fearless).
The beginning of this from 0:00 to 0:17 is actually the marching song the Harad men were singing going into the Black Gate. The Orc chant that they sang going into Minas Tirith actually starts here 0:19
If any army in the world adopted this as their marching song, they’d never have to fire a single bullet.... because the opposing force would just turn tail and run.
Imagine playing a video game about the war of wrath, where you are an elf in the noldorin host led by the valar, with a small army of elf players on one side and thousands of orc computers on another and you hear this before the charge
except this is black speech which didn't exist at the time of the war of wrath... (it also means death to men, which wouldn't be what they are saying when attacking a mostly elvish army)
Si el enemigo también tiene sus formas de darse animo en batalla, entonces es un formidable oponente, por ello amo estas interpretaciones, los orcos se sienten vivos
Every battlefield on Earth was subjected to sounds like this for thousands of years...the armies of Xerxes, Alexander, Caesar, Atilla, Hannibal, etc...marching to horns, drums, chants and shouts of command from the various officers and war marshals...the air full of dust and the carrion eaters gathering at the edges on the promise of an easy feast to come. The average peasant caught up in it probably wasn't as impressed as we are by the brutal majesty of it all.
