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In episode 3 of the Rings of Power series (available on Amazon Prime Video since last Friday), the elf Arondir and his companions in trouble, enslaved by an orc colony, try to escape their captors. To do this, they develop a strategy that immediately shows its effectiveness: expose the creatures to sunlight by removing their caps and destroying their shelters.
Indeed, as seen in the Elven attack, Orcs are particularly sensitive to daylight, which seems to burn their skin and make them retreat as quickly as possible to the darkness of their galleries. A feature that was not mentioned in Peter Jackson’s films, where Sauron’s soldiers thrived in the open without fear of the sun, as was the case in the Lord of the Rings literary trilogy by JRR Tolkien.
Even if the director of the three feature films omitted to specify it, we can assume that if his orcs were not affected by daylight, it is because they almost always intervened in dark areas (like Moria) or at least cloudy areas. Indeed, on the perimeter of Mordor or on the battlefields surrounding it, Sauron no doubt voluntarily extended his shadow to allow his armies to attack without suffering from the sun.
Moreover, according to the specialized site TolkiendilBased on the author’s writings, the so-called “core” orcs (those of Sauron) are to be distinguished from the hybrid beings created by Saruman and who confront the armies of Rohan in the Two Towers.
The latter, in fact, a cross between orcs and men (or orcs and goblins according to the movies), are not afraid of light and therefore can develop during the day and in the open air, which does not prevent them from being perfect. blinded.at the end of the battle of Helm’s Deep by Gandalf’s white light.
As for the other orcs that were created by Morgoth in c The Silmarillion — even before the appearance of the sun and moon in Middle-earth — they were conceived in deep and dark places, which the rays of the two trees which then illuminated the world could not reach, which may explain their contempt for all. form of light.
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