'Nothing can even compete with Uruk-Hai': 10+ Perfectly Foul and Terrifying Orc Designs From the Lord of the Rings

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Jesse Kessenheimer • Writer and Editor
Jun 8, 2024 11:30 AM EDT

You and your hairy-footed best mate just wandered into a mystical forest at night. After a long day of trudging across green hills, outsmarting local Nazgûl, and steadying your cast iron pans on your rucksack, alls you want is a nice fireside stew and some po-ta-toes for dinner–but the local orcs think otherwise. As you reach for your sword, now glowing blue in an ominous warning, you can't help but wonder which variety of man-flesh-eating, slimy, deformed, pull-outta-the-mud beast will be attacking your camp tonight. 

Orcs, goblins, boggarts, bugans, and uruk-hai could be the evil dudes you fight, but which race of orc is the most disgusting and terrible? Lord of the Rings fans band together to discuss the brutalest of beasts found in the pits of Middle Earth, raising armies like Saruman and picking the corner of LOTR's greatest enemies. 

Scroll for the top ten goblins and ghouls that have haunted our nightmares since 2001. 

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    What is your favorite Orc design in the movies?
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    ShakinBacon24 18h ago Thorin Oakenshield The Moria goblins felt spot on. Cowardly scavengers through and through. But the Uruk-Hai take the cake, no contest. Feels perfect that they recruited local rugby players to play them.
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    KaptonMordor759 • 15h ago
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    90zvision 18h ago Mordor orcs. Genuinely a bit creepy
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    SnuffCartoon • 18h ago Uruk Hai. Specifically Lurtz. Scary as
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    PostTwist 16h ago
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    Aladril_jr 15h ago • .com Orcs in the Lord of the Rings Orcs in the Hobbit
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    gwyxgobbo 18h ago The Mordor orcs always looked the meanest to le. Yes, Uruk-hai are more powerful, but the orcs look more vicious, with their crooked, pointy noses and slender faces. Gorbag for example is super creepy imo.
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    Gunstar... 12h ago Edited 7h ago This monster marathon running torch chad. RIP my guy, you would have loved tough mudders
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    • RobertXD96 18h ago I love the appearance of the orcs during the prologue in mordor. They look rad
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    GainRevolutionary211 .7h ago The Prologue Orcs were amazing
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    electrical_pengui... • 16h ago Nothing can even compete with lurtz and the Uruk-Hai. These are Uruk-hai. Their armor is thick and their shields broad. They are killers of Sean Bean.
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    PhoenixSheriden1 • 18h ago Original design for Azog. He got reused as the Dol Goldur orc that Galadriel disintegrates.
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    ZerkWilder1400 • 15h ago The red camo ones were sketchy and memorable.
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    • 14h ago. Edited 14h ago I've always liked the orc that squeals like a pig in ROTK. The one that does the inspection. He's just a vile grotesque looking creature.
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    Nonkel_Jef 16h ago The cauliflower
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    LetsDoltTogether420 • 18h ago The Hobbit Orcs are so bad lol. Whoever thought that was a good idea was actually dumb as Love all the others. Sarumans Uruk Hai in the films look so badass. Love the entire design they came up with for them. Mordor Orcs? Come on
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    those are some of the most badass enemies I've ever seen. Not sure why, but I've always thought the Goblins of the Misty Mountains were just so cool in the lore to me. Really liked how they turned out in the
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    fellowship, except for how they are like spiders and come in hoards from cracks and crawl on the walls lol. That was strange to me. Loved them in the Hobbit books. Again the film version of the goblins were a dumpster fire. The version I've created in my head for them is so much better than anything that film could have possibly mustered.
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    KaptonMordor759 15h ago This Top Fav !
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    short_bus_genius • 14h ago I like the, "What about their legs? They don't need those?" Technicality seeking mother orcs.
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    Illuvatar-Stranger • 15h ago I really liked the original Bolg design
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    No_Opportunity2789 • 17h ago The original trilogy orcs were effing scary! Hobbit orcs just didn't do it for me but i did like how it showed the size comparison of dwarves to orcs
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    well. The size difference made them feel scary compared to dwarves but not compared to the men/elves as they just weren't as gnarly as the OG series
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    journey-destinashon • 14h ago Meat's back in the menu boys 87 3 Reply ... BoreusSimius • 13h ago Gothmog is a brilliantly unique looking orc.
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