You can’t have Lord of The Rings without armies of Orcs causing mayhem. Today, thanks to an exclusive reveal over at IGN, we have our first look at the Orcs we’ll see in Amazon’s series, Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power.
These brand-new images from photographers Matt Grace and Ben Rothstein, showcase several different variations of Orcs that will appear in the Prime Video series this September. From the looks of these first images, the makeup and prosthetic teams have knocked it out of the park with the design of the Orcs.
FIRST LOOK AT THE ORCS
ABOUT ORCS IN THE RINGS OF POWER
From the exclusive IGN interview with Jamie Wilson, head of The Rings of Power’s prosthetic department, and Lindsey Weber, executive producer, it looks like a lot of time and attention went into the creation of the Orcs. Wilson should be considered a bonafide expert on Orcs, as they have been involved in every live-action Lord of The Rings project to date.
“Well, I love Orcs,” Weber starts. “I love creature design, so I’m very happy to talk about this stuff. JD and Patrick — the showrunners — the very first page of their bible was about Orcs. They have a real passion for them, they love practical prosthetics and design, and they felt that they needed exploration given that this is the Second Age and thousands of years before the events of the Third Age. It was really important to them to treat them as their own culture and explore their world on its own two legs in its own right.”
“We spent a lot of time talking about what it would mean to be an Orc in the Second Age,” said Weber. “It felt appropriate that their look would be different, part of a wilder, more raw, Second Age, Middle-earth, closer to where the First Age ends. As we meet them, they’re not yet organized into armies, they’re a little more scattered and they’ve been scavenging. So it’s just a different time in their total story.”
IGN.com
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