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Slaughter them all!
~ Bolg leading the second army into the Battle of the Five Armies and his last words.

Bolg is a powerful Orc warlord as the son and successor of the infamous Orc Azog and the secondary antagonist of the 1937 fantasy adventure novel The Hobbit, or There and Back Again and its 2012-2014 film trilogy adaptation. He was a powerful Orc warlord as the son and successor of the infamous Orc Azog.

In The Desolation of Smaug, he is played by Lawrence Makoare, who also played several other Middle-earth villains, such as the Witch-king of Angmar, Lurtz and Gothmog. In The Battle of the Five Armies, he was played by John Tui.

In J.R.R. Tolkien's books[]

The Hobbit[]

In the original book, Bolg is the son of Azog the Defiler, succeeding him after his death in the Battle of Azanulbizar in TA 2799 by Dáin who becomes Dáin Ironfoot and the grandfather of Thorin Oakenshield. Bolg had resettled in the old refuge in Mount Gundabad after the kingdom of Angmar was abandoned, and apparently ruled goblins of the Misty Mountains from their capital at Mount Gundabad during the Battle of the Five Armies.

Bolg rules the northern Goblins for about 150 years, and leads the army of Goblins, Wargs, and Bats in the Battle of the Five Armies, in which he takes his two bodyguards with him. In the battle, he fatally wounds Thorin Oakenshield to avenge Azog's death to Dáin, with Fíli and Kíli dying trying to defend Thorin.

Bolg doesn't have much time to enjoy succeeding at obtaining revenge as he is soon later crushed and killed by Beorn, a skin-changer who can turn into a mighty black bear, avenging Thorin's death.

In Sir Peter Jackson's films[]

The Desolation of Smaug[]

Bolg first appears when Azog is summoned to Dol Guldur in service of their master, Bolg is sent by his father to take it from here and lead the orc pack to find and kill Thorin, the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the Dwarven company. They track the Dwarves to the Elven Kingdom of Mirkwood ruled by Thranduil, where the Dwarves are escaping captive thanks to Bilbo, by riding in floating barrels in the river, using the current to bring them further downriver, unaware of the orc's arrival.

Bolg is leading the orcs to an unguarded gate where the Dwarves are headed, but the Elves interfere again when trying to stop the Dwarves. Bolg and the Orcs then see no other choice but to reveal themselves to the Elves and fight them and the Dwarves. When Bolg notices Kíli trying to open the gate to help the others escape, Bolg shoots him with a poisonous Morgul arrow. When they are about to finish him off, the Elf warrior, Tauriel saves Kíli's life a second time and Bolg order they kill her, giving Kíli enough time to struggle his way to lift himself up, pull the lever and open the gate, and escape with his fellow comrades.

Bolg orders the orcs downriver to pursue them, but the Dwarves easily fight them off and escape, and are later smuggled into Lake-town, Esgaroth by a bargeman named Bard and make their way to the Lonely Mountain, but they left behind Filli, Bofur, Oin and a wounded Kíli where they tend to him in Bard's house. Later, Bolg and his Orcs sneak into Lake-town, hot on the Dwarves' trail, they break into Bard's house and attempt to kill everyone, but Tauriel and Legolas arrived just in time to save them and fight off the orcs. The Orcs retreat and Bolg tells them to send word to Dol Guldur that the company have reached Erebor.

Legolas pursues Bolg while Tauriel heales Kíli with Elven magic using the weed that Bofur retrieved from the pigs that are about to be eaten by them at the time. Bolg and two orcs fought Legolas while the rest of the orc pack left for Dol Guldur. Legolas cuts down the two Orcs and fights Bolg. After Bolg gains the upper hand, he leaves Legolas to be dealt with by two more orcs; escaping to Dol Guldur with Legolas in pursuit after the latter kills the two Orcs.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies[]

After fleeing from Lake-Town, Bolg meets Azog and the orc army as they march on the lonely mountain. Azog orders him to travel to Mount Gundabad in the north after he hears that Bolg fought, but did not kill Legolas in Lake-Town. Legolas and Tauriel later witness Bolg leading the orc forces from the fortress at Gundabad towards Erebor.

Bolg Kills Kili

Bolg kills Kíli.

Bolg arrives at the Battle of the Five Armies during Thorin's final fight with Azog at Raven Hill. He comes across Tauriel, who is looking for Kíli, and nearly kills her, were it not for the latter's timely intervention. After a struggle Bolg fatally stabs Kíli, prompting Tauriel to take him with her over the edge of a cliff. Bolg is about to attack Tauriel as she lies wounded from the fall, but Legolas topples a stone tower across a frozen waterfall and comes forth to face Bolg, saving Tauriel from death.

As Legolas battles Bolg with Orchrist, he sees Thorin about to be slain by an orc atop the waterfall and throws him the sword, killing the orc. He then uses his daggers to fight Bolg as the tower crumbles. While Bolg has the upper hand for most of the fight, Legolas ultimately wins in the end by swinging up into his shoulders and stabbing him through the skull with a dagger, killing him and avenging Kíli's death. The Extended Edition shows that Legolas twists the dagger, scrambling Bolg's brain. Legolas leaps free as the tower crumbles, and Bolg's lifeless body falls to the ground, his head being crushed by a falling stone from the tower.

Video Games[]

In Lord of the Rings online, its revealed Bolg has a brother named Mazog and a son named Gorgar.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • Bolg role in the film trilogy is very different from the book. In the book, Bolg ruled the Goblins in Mount Gundabad for 150 years, but in the film trilogy, he is the second-in-command because Azog is still alive.
    • Also, in the book, Azog dies hundreds of years before Bolg was killed, but in the film trilogy, Bolg is slain minutes before his father was.
  • Whilst orc lifespans are never given out in Middle Earth, Bolg shows at least some orcs can live for hundreds of years.

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