In a note ca.1960 Tolkien suggested that it is possible that Boldog was actually a title, given to lesser Maiar, servants of Morgoth, who had taken an Orkish hröa. The name Boldog was used by several Orc chieftains during the First Age. Tolkien wrote the story of the fall of the city in 1917 and never fully revised it, and Balcmeg does not appear in the published Silmarillion.īoldog is a formidable Orc-captain of a Host of Angband that is sent to attack Doriath and capture Lúthien mentioned in The Lay of Leithian in The History of Middle-earth Volume III: The Lays of Beleriand. He is killed during the Battle of the Five Armies, in which he and Thorin Oakenshield mortally wound each other.īalcmeg was one of the Orcs killed in the Fall of Gondolin, according to The Book of Lost Tales. Azog is also, unlike most orcs, shown to only speak in Black Speech and has sworn to wipe out the line of Durin. He is portrayed by Manu Bennett in all three films in an expanded role from the original tale, and is one of the primary antagonists of the films. In The Hobbit film series, Azog is depicted as 8 feet 5 inches tall, pale white orc with a white warg as his steed. The Dwarves returned the insult by setting Azog's severed head on a stake and sticking the money pouch in his mouth. After killing Thrór, Azog had given a small pouch of money to Thrór's companion, as payment for him to tell the other Dwarves of the murder. The war Azog started climaxed in the Battle of Azanulbizar, where he killed Náin, but while fleeing back he was caught and beheaded by Náin's son Dáin. Gradually, the Orcs were driven back until they held only Azanulbizar.
In the following years, he was the common enemy of all Dwarves.
By not only killing Thrór, but torturing him for some days, beheading him, and branding his name on the dwarf's head, Azog earned the hatred of all Dwarves, who united in desire to kill him. 2790 by killing King Thrór, who came to revisit Azanulbizar. He precipitated the War of the Dwarves and Orcs in T.A. He is referred to in a single remark by Gandalf to Thorin Oakenshield in The Hobbit: "Your grandfather Thrór was killed, you remember, in Azanulbizar by Azog." Azog was an Orc chieftain until his death in T.A. 2799.
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