#moria goblins

FROM TEA AND SECOND BREAKFAST IN THE SHIRE TO FACING DOWN MORGOTH'S EVIL.

GIF INFO: Spotlight on what, personally, I find to think is the coolest-looking, most terrifying Orc adversary in the entire "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001) motion picture, the unidentified, more than likely, female goblin warrior encountered in the mines of Moria. Creature makeup effects/design by Wēta Workshop.

PIC #2: In second place, my second favorite Orc creature design was the unidentified Orc Taskmaster, who ultimately oversaw the Isengard Orcs working in the caverns, breeding Goblin-men and forging weapons for the Great Enemy's army of Uruk-hai warriors.

"...AND BY SLOW ARTS OF CRUELTY WERE CORRUPTED AND ENSLAVED; AND THUS DID MELKOR BREED THE HIDEOUS RACE OF THE ORCS..."

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on the many different types of orcs and orc makeup effects by Weta Workshop, all orc makeup iterations featured here can be found in Peter Jackson's first installment of the "The Lord of the Rings" film trilogy, "The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001). New Line Cinema.

"But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty... Yet this is held true by the wise of Eressëa, that all those of the Quendi who came into the hands of Melkor, ere Utumno was broken, were put there in prison, and by slow arts of cruelty were corrupted and enslaved; and thus did Melkor breed the hideous race of the Orcs in eny and mockery of the Elves, of whom they were afterwards the bitterest foes. For the Orcs had life and multiplied after the manner of the Children of Ilúvatar... And deep in their dark hearts the Orcs loathed the Master whom they served in fear, the maker only of their misery..."

-- "The Silmarillion," "Quenta Silmarillion, III -- Of the Coming of the Elves and the Captivity of Melkor," written by J.R.R. Tolkien

FILE UNDER: MORIA GOBLINS, GOBLINS OF THE MISTY MOUNTAINS, ORCS, DARK FANTASY, MIDDLE-EARTH, JACKSON TRILOGY, ETC...

PIC(S) INFO: Mega spotlight on promotional film stills of Moria goblins, a.k.a., Orcs of the Misty Mountains, chasing the Fellowship into Lorien after the Battle of Mazarbul in the Third Age, from the epic high fantasy-action/adventure film "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" (2001), co-written & directed by Peter Jackson.

"The Sun sinks early. The Orcs will not, maybe, come out till after dusk, but we must be far away before nightfall. The Moon is almost spent, and it will be dark tonight."

-- "The Lord Of The Rings," written by professor J.R.R. Tolkien, Chapter 6 "LOTHLÓRIEN"