While there, Azog dispatches his son Bolg to take his place in hunting Thorin and his company. Azog is summoned to Dol Guldur to become the commander of Sauron's Orc armies. He bears a strong resemblance to his father, Azog the Defiler (who survives the War of the Dwarves and Orcs in the films). He is portrayed as a huge, pale Orc clad in armor and bones.īolg and his father Azog consulting with each other in Dol Guldur.īolg appears extensively in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, Bolg was played by Lawrence Makoare in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and John Tui in The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Portrayals in adaptations The Hobbit film trilogy This would be supported by Celtic legends about the Fir Bolg one of the enemies of the Tuatha de Danan. The History of The Hobbit also cites Bolg as being a word of unknown meaning in the language of the Iverni, a people of early Ireland mentioned in Ptolemy's 2nd century Geography. Mágol seems to have been based on Hungarian, and Tolkien seems to have worked on it in the years he was writing The Hobbit, or even earlier. As discussed in the book The History of The Hobbit, the word bolg is listed as meaning "strong" in the vocabulary list for Mágol, one of the languages constructed by Tolkien. The meaning of the name Bolg is uncertain. In that battle he was crushed by the mighty Beorn, who in the act avenged Thorin II Oakenshield, who had been fatally wounded. There he would rule over the goblins of the Misty Mountains.Īfter about 150 years, he led an army of goblins, wargs, and bats in the Battle of the Five Armies, into which he took his bodyguards with him as well. In The Hobbit, Bolg had succeeded Azog after the latter's death in the Battle of Azanulbizar (the last battle of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs) in TA 2799 by Dáin II Ironfoot, and had resettled in the old refuge of Mount Gundabad.
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