![]() There's just a lot of different kinds of orcs. They're orcs in service of Sauron (more on him in a minute).Īll orcs were created by Melkor, an evil Vala (we'll get to them, too), either by torturing Elves or by making them from scratch, depending on which of Tolkein's writings you prefer. So all of these things I'm stabbing are orcs? Tolkien's writing doesn't really have an answer about where they came from or how they got so short - maybe island dwarfism? - but they're officially related to Men. There was a war, a continent got destroyed and Men ended up spread all over the place.Īnother quick aside: Hobbits are technically Men. ![]() The whole "Why do we have to die and you don't?" thing made a lot of people unhappy. Elves and humans got along pretty well for a long time, but slowly, and with Sauron's influence (he'll come up again, too), things got tense. The big difference between Elves and Men was mortality - Elves are immortal, while Men die. Men were the second race created by Eru Iluvatar, Tolkien's big-C Creator (we'll get to Eru in a minute). He was a product of his time, and as uncomfortable as it is to use Men exclusively, we're going to be faithful to Tolkien from here on.) Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. (A quick side note: Humans are called “Men” in Tolkien's writing. Tark is the orcish word for, effectively, humans. What's a tark, and why do the orcs keep calling me that? But that's kind of on you, because it came out three years ago. Second, we're going to try to avoid spoiling anything about the second game, but we'll end up spoiling the ending of the first game. First, a blanket spoiler warning for, we guess, just all of Lord of the Rings. Let's start with something simple, and then we'll see where that takes us.īefore we get started: a note on spoilers. We're going to gloss over a lot, and we'll be a little irreverent about some of it, but we'll be accurate enough that you can understand Talion's place in the world and what's going on in Middle-earth: Shadow of War. But we're here to give you a crash course in Tolkien’s daunting lengendarium. So how do these games fit into Tolkien's world? There's no short answer to this question - Tolkien tended to be a little wordy, to say the least. Sure, they take some liberties with Tolkien's canon - adding to it in some places and … finessing it in others - but they're undeniably Middle-earth stories.īoth of the Middle-earth games take place in the 60 years between Bilbo shoplifting and Frodo destroying the evidence. They were pretty good, so long as you don't have strong opinions on whether or not balrogs had wings (don't me).īoth of the Middle-earth games take place in the 60 years between Bilbo shoplifting and Frodo destroying the evidence. Many years later, Bilbo's “nephew” (actually, his first and/or second cousin once removed) had to take a trip to throw away Bilbo's jewelry, because it turned out to be some pretty ill-conceived thievery on Bilbo's part. (No, seriously, go watch that music video. They made some live-action movies about it, along with a super-’70s animated movie, and Mr. Bilbo Baggins went on a surprise walk - an unexpected journey, if you will - with some friends and ended up finding some neat jewelry. ![]() “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”
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