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Orcs
General summary, from Ty after seeing Te papa traveling
exhibit
- Uruk-Hai
- These guys obviously got the good stuff, chain mail in good
repair, plate armor that's relatively coordinated and not rusted,
solid leather stuff mostly in black. There were a range of unpolished
iron helms, most remarkably some that had two round holes cut out for
eyes. This sounds goofy but the two small holes somehow looked very
sinister.
- Moria Orc
- The Moria Orc armor followed basic "evil armor" guidelines,
multi-plated with protruding curved claw-like spikes in parts. It was
rusted, as if salvaged and adapted long ago, and the undergarments and
associated chain were more ragged.
- Generic Orc
- In even worse shape than the Moria Orc armor. Mail was rusty and
ragged, with holes in it; metal plates were laced together over a
coarse fur backing; the ensemble had more leather parts and yet more
of a random air of being looted. There was a leather chest plate,
"faded" to brown, with ragged edges that looked like it had had the
White Tree of Gondor embossed on it at some point, as if it had been
looted from a hapless foot soldier of Minas Tirith.
- Warg Riders
- This was the most organic-looking orc armor. Organic in a bad way,
that is, with pieces of bone and tooth incorporated into it. The armor
was almost all leather plating and leather straps, there were
unidentifiable and unsavory raised areas (reinforced with bone
stitched between leather?) protruding fur and hair from a motley
collection of hides underneath, and open, raw stitching. This
suggested some sort of unholy co-operation with their Warg mounts, as
if they constructed their armor from what was left of the Wargs' prey.
One remarkable thing about the warg-rider armor was the BASKETWORK
codpiece - woven of wood or rattan and colored faded black and
red-brown.
- Uruk-hai
- Topps TTT card, Uruk-hai on the march
- Tight shot of orcs, Topps TTT card
- Mass of Orcs, among the green - BtS
- Grimi sitting on an orc in helms deep battle field, back of Legolas
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- Orc attack - TTT Topps card
- More attacking, grate(?) in foreground, TTT Topps card
- Battering down the gate of Helm's Deep
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- Elf vs. Orc, from side - Monster against Warrior, TTT topps card
- Inhuman Enemy - smiling orc, TTT Topps card
- Filming a salvage sword fight - Aragorn vs. warged orc
- Orcs watching playback - BtS
- Ugggg! - Scarface orc in need of a dentist
- Detailing an orc body (w/ ridge) - BtS
- Orc w/ hump back
- applying the prosthetic - BtS
- squirming into the giant orc body suit - BtS
- Lot of individual orcs in these 13 pages of European cards
- Worg Rider, Elven Warrior and Haradrim
- Rider Closeup
- Uriki - London exhibit
- Latax masks of orcs all lined up in rows
- Orc Mask, and outfit, London
- Group of dead orcs marching
- Fighting Orc group
- Orc inside wall, one sitting
- Orc group shot, two lifting rock
- Orc Birthing?
- Orc at forge, hammer
- Orc at forge, sparks
- Orc fighting, Saruman in background blocked
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Some Details
From: Designer Dressing for Orcs - An Interview with Matt Appleton from
Massey News
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Scrounging for
Orcs:
Appleton says he
pillaged
op-shops in the
Wellington
region for
jackets, coats
and furs, all of
which he
shredded, dyed
and layered, in
various
combinations,
under the Orc
armour.
“The Orcs had
been fighting,
living and
sleeping in
their clothes
for years, so we
had lots of fun
building up the
characters,
splicing in the
stuff we’d
imagined they’d
be looting off
the soldiers
they’d killed in
battles they’d
fought. I found
a nobleman’s
jacket always
added a nice
touch –
particularly if
you dressed it
down with mud.”
- About
coming up with
50 extra orcs on
a moments notice:
“So when the
crew are all
waiting on you -
when you’ve put
a jacket on
someone that
doesn’t fit -
that’s when
you’re whacking
open those seams
at the back that
are not in shot,
cobbling it all
back together
with safety
pins. That’s
when the really
dodgy stuff
happens"
- More:
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/_2001/publications_2001/Massey_News/August/Aug_13/stories/lord_of_the_rings.html
Quick bits
- "Goblin Knickers"
- Designer underwear covered with ragged loin-cloth
Weapons
- E3 pictures - different arrow shafts on display
Other References
- Check out Matt's Orc Costume study pages:
- More on ACS
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