Rings of Power: Are The Orcs In The Second Age Weakened By Sunlight?
One of the most confusing discrepancies between The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings, is why the trolls in the respective stories behave so differently in daylight. As is written in Tolkiens original book, and depicted in Peter Jackson's movie adaptation of The Hobbit, Bilbo, Thorin and his band of dwarves are rescued from captivity at the last moment by the sun turning Burt, Tom and William, the three mountain trolls who are trying to cook the dwarves for dinner,into stone when it touches them. Yet the trolls in the war of the ring, who are seen pushing the orc battlements up to the walls of Minas Tirith, are alive and walking around during the day, without suffering the same terrible reaction as their former ancestors.
In order to explain this conundrum, Tolkien adapted the trolls that appear in his later works to be far more bestial, and to have less reaction to the sun, because they have been bred specifically to do so under years of corruption from Sauron’s influence. In essence, they are a different kind of troll, protected from the daylight’s adverse effects by Sauron’s dominance of them. But a similar question has been raised about the orcs in the First and Second Age of Middle Earth after the release of the latest Rings of Power trailer shows colonies of orcs in a way that they have never been depicted before.
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In previous trailers, there have been shots shown of the usual armor wearing orcs marching up the battlements, presumably towards Arondir’s tower. This is expanded upon in the newer trailer to show an epic battle scene between the handsome elf and his assailants, as he sends an avalanche of rocks pouring down on the orcs below him. There is
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