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TurnerMohan β Boldog sketch
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Published: 2016-01-19 05:56:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 4957; Favourites: 67; Downloads: 38
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Some more quick sketches and thoughts on the first age servants of morgoth. Currently i've got several photoshop concept pieces in the works centered around the creatures of angband, the first of which will hopefully be fit to put up soon.Related content
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Hmm, I don't really know anything about boldogs. Well, I can always learn something new.
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Originally "boldog" was the name of an orc commander, but tolkien seems to have changed his mind about that, recasting "boldogs" as low-wrung maiar spirits in orc shape, essentially "super orcs" if you will. I'm somewhat happy with this design, i think he's suitably scary looking, but i wouldnt mind a second try (movie-azog, while way too handsome and human looking to pass for an orc in my book, always seemed close to my mental image of a boldog, so i could try going a little farther in that direction)
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Ah, I get ya.
And yeah, while I for one personally don't mind Azog's design in the movies, I do think it would make for a better Maia look than a mortal orc. (Granted orcs, like elves are technically immortal but you get the picture. 
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The Boldog is acctualy a creatures from the books or a hole new one?
Amazing concepts as usual!
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In one of his notes on the first age tolkien mentions thingol slaying a great orc commander named "boldog" during some battle before the return of the noldor. He later seems to have changed his mind, and come to the concepts of "boldogs" being rather a type of maiar spirit (like vampires, werewolves, dragons, balrogs ect) inhabiting orcish forms, presumably for the purpose of serving as commanders of the vast hordes of orcs and intermediaries between them and higher-up-the-chain servants of morgoth loke sauron or gothmog.
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Β Could it be that the name for the sub-type derived from a particularly prominent and storied example of the Breed? (I have to admit that when two competing versions of a Fictional History are given, I like to try working out a third that reconciles them by incorporating elements of both).
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Actually Tolkien goes your way :
Boldog (β¦) is a name that occurs many times in the tales of the War [even though it only appears once in the Lay of Leithian]. But it is possible that Boldog was not a personal name, and either a title, or else the name of a kind of creature: the Orc-formed Maiar, only less formidable than the Balrogs.
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Β At this point I'd love to say "Great minds think alike" but my own personal Muse would probably pack up shop and leave me in her dust for good in the face of such overweening hubris!Β Β Β
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Haha if your Muse is anything like you I'm sure she'll take it with philosophy !
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Β Let's just hope that philosophy doesn't boil down to "Better luck next time!"Β
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I never knew that!!! In which book is it? I think I need to read them again...
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It's in the Lay of Leithian : an early version of the Tale of Beren and TinΓΊviel.
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