How Did Sauron Feed Massive Orc Army? | The Lord of the Rings

How Did Sauron Feed Massive Orc Army? | The Lord of the Rings | Middle Earth

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In the Silmarillion, Morgoth commands an orc army exceeding hundreds of thousands. In The Lord of the Rings, the armies of Sauron and Saruman are also largely composed of orcs. So, what did these orcs, numbering in the hundreds of thousands, eat, and how did their masters manage to keep them fed even under a siege lasting 400 years?
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00:00 Intro
00:35 How orcs breed
01:34 How many orcs did Melkor have?
02:07 What orcs eat?
04:25 How did Melkor feed them during the 400-year siege?
05:12 Saruman Uruks
06:35 How many orcs did Sauron have?
07:35 How did Sauron feed them?
09:28 Is it meaningless?

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@tijltrienen 2 ай бұрын

nothing but maggoty bread for 3 stinking days.

@Redneckkratos 2 ай бұрын

YEAHHHHHH!!!!!! WHY CANT WE HAVE SOME MEATS?!?!?!?

@jaysomewhereinflyoverterri735 2 ай бұрын

Those orcs were Saruman's.

@Ihavetostartwipingbetter 2 ай бұрын

@@jaysomewhereinflyoverterri735 yes Jay, what a smart boy you are Jay, such a good boy jay

@OublietteTight 2 ай бұрын

So they could eat bread? Good to know. Who did they steal it from? In that situation and location, it seems unlikely that they were near their normal food sources. They knew the word for bread, at least. Heh the maggots might been the best part? I agree with this video. Orcs hardly seem like the type to patiently grow and protect grain crops for long enough?

@liltimothy8109 2 ай бұрын

@@Redneckkratoswhat about them?! They’re Fressh “💦”

@Combatgoblin83 2 ай бұрын

I always assumed the orcs ate mould, fungus and moss, things that grow in the dark along with any creatures that dwell in caves (snakes, rats, bats etc)

@peterlynchchannel 2 ай бұрын

Fungus makes a lot of sense. Subterranean creatures like many species of ants and earthworms will bring plant matter underground so that fungus grows on it, and then eat the fungus. This would be a kind of underground agriculture that orcs could do on a large scale to feed a growing population. As for hunting cave dwelling animals, they could do that for a short while, but those animals would quickly be extirpated. Perhaps they could keep rats and pigs which are very good for converting biomass into meat.

@SeanMahoneyfitnessandart 2 ай бұрын

I like that idea... makes sense 🤔

@adryannthedefender701 2 ай бұрын

Maybe you're refering about the GW Orks from WH40K also they have squigs on their menu.

@Combatgoblin83 Ай бұрын

@@adryannthedefender701 I can’t be because I don’t know warhammer lore particularly well so have no idea what you mean 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

@BridgeTROLL777 23 күн бұрын

sauron had agriculture lands behind mordor tended by humans (slaves, i think), beautiful lands though.

@sonicninja3434 2 ай бұрын

With Angband, consider that they had cave agriculture, i.e. mushrooms, worms, cave moss, bats, rats, pools of cave fish, etc.

@tijltrienen 2 ай бұрын

and maggoty bread for 3 stinking days per week

@Ihavetostartwipingbetter 2 ай бұрын

I always loved how the orc who wanted to eat the hobbits and got stabbed for it looked and sounded like Keith Richards

@treavorwhitlock5606 2 ай бұрын

Wow! You are totally right! It probably was Keith just showing up on set by mistake

@BuddaToken 2 ай бұрын

Melkor corrupted Lembas bread turning it into the stuff that the Orcs drink.

@milkteaalliance1748 2 ай бұрын

Turning bread into liquid? Im think the liquid os adreanachrome

@yannick7230 2 ай бұрын

So kvass?

@trossk Ай бұрын

If you look at the timeliness, it could be anything. That was what? 3k year difference to make a drug fueled beverage/bread?

@undead8393 Ай бұрын

@@yannick7230 If Melkor invented kvass, I may need to rethink my allegiances lol

@Putrescence420 18 күн бұрын

Grog

@RobertEskuri 2 ай бұрын

Legs. Just a mouthful. A bit off the flank. 🍴

@finrod55 2 ай бұрын

Cannibalism almost for sure. Not just Grishnakh’s accusation; Shagrat tells Gorbag “You’ll be for the pot”. Not definitive but it shows orcs aren’t squeamish about cannibal talk. No doubt they’d eat their dead, even if they don’t slaughter their kind for food. And I can’t imagine Sauron/Morgoth/Saruman hesitating to kill ( or at least butcher already dead ) orcs to serve up to his boys. I always imagined that deep under Angband there were huge caverns where orc females grew food with artificial lighting and underground streams, and baked their hideous bread while males slaughtered “surplus baby” orcs for sandwich meat 😂

@helixator3975 Ай бұрын

So..quite similar to McDonald’s Cargill-Fresno plant then.

@GrosvnerMcaffrey Ай бұрын

You don't see many orc women they are so alike in voice and appearance they are often mistaken for orc men

@Alexinytown Ай бұрын

@@GrosvnerMcaffreyAnd this in turn has given rise to the belief that there are no orc women, and that orcs just spring out of holes in the ground!

@climbscience4813 19 күн бұрын

Nah, you can't sustain a population by cannibalism. It might help for a while if you're losing in battle anyway, but you have to have other food sources, or no one would be left in short time...

@andrewgilbertson5672 2 ай бұрын

Re: Orc women; could also be that they were noncombattants (as is pretty standard for even most human cultures throughout history) and that is why we never see them- the civillian/breeding Orc population is tucked back in some corner of Mordor we never visit.

@zororora2210 Ай бұрын

Naw in another video i saw they said that most of the ork army was most likely female orks

@user-fj8qq6bl5q 2 ай бұрын

Think the answer is simple they ate anything they could get access to, crops, breads meats from slaves enemies or beasts.

@the_jester5448 Ай бұрын

It's a little know fact that the "Orc Draft" is in fact Guinness. Can keep a full grown orc marching for hours.

@linnharamis1496 2 ай бұрын

Tolkien may have pondered the “feeding Mordor” issue and therefore added The Sea of Nurnen as a source of water for agricultural production.

@lossefion 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the thought provoking video. I'm convinced of a third option for Angband: I don't think Melkor had a huge army until the latter days when he was going to break the siege. A small force can effectively hold a fortress against a large army besieging it. Orcs multiply quickly, therefore there would be no reason to have a large force in abeyance until Melkor was prepared.

@josephvisnovsky1462 2 ай бұрын

Black liquid which warms the body and satiates hunger. I call that mystery: coffee

@richardsanchez5444 2 ай бұрын

2:58 well that one orc did look at Merry and pippin and say" what about them, they're fresh"

@BVargas78 2 ай бұрын

I always suspected there were two types of orcs. Those that were made in a more natural form through breeding and those that were made unnaturally through sorcery. Similar to how Saruman (in the movies) spawned them in vats of mud and presumably other elements, bile blood other things. Perhaps even human blood. Similar to a crude magical form of cloning. Though other than a line remarked by Gandalf, assumably he was only using poetic speech when he says 'all the orcs spawned in Moria' the books and Tolkien himself never really mentions that as being the case. But it would explain their numbers and how Sauron and Saruman were able to quickly build armies of orcs including Uruks. I assume the more natural orcs that breed and live in tribes to be more independent thinking despite still being bound to the will of Sauron. While the magically spawned orcs are more loyal to their creator, as with Sarumans white hand uruks.

@terrytwotoes8922 Ай бұрын

We came up with a thought, in the two towers when the orc says “looks like meats back on the menu boys!” It suggest there are Orc restaurants, we then came up with a list of names, “Orcs and forks” won

@osadock17 2 ай бұрын

in one of his letters answering a question about the Entwifes Tolkien wrought: “They [the Entwives] survived only in the ‘agriculture’ transmitted to Men (and Hobbits),” Tolkien continues. “Some, of course, may have fled east, or even have become enslaved: tyrants even in such tales must have an economic and agricultural background to their soldiers and metal-workers.

@Hardcore_Drug_Abuse95 2 ай бұрын

Maggoty bread… For threeee stinkin days!! Yeeeeeeah! Why can’t they ave some meats!?!?

@youcanttakemyDIGNITY 2 ай бұрын

What about them? They're fresh Looks like meats back on the menu boys!

@c.antoniojohnson7114 2 ай бұрын

@@youcanttakemyDIGNITY"Just a mouthful.....A bit off the flank.."

@youcanttakemyDIGNITY 2 ай бұрын

@@c.antoniojohnson7114 😃 YESSSS 🧙

@Justin-pe9cl 2 ай бұрын

OHHH thay look taystee!

@richardrobinson1651 2 ай бұрын

Methinks they did sup on Uber Eats. Many a timid man-flesh did cycle to his doom through the black gates of Mordor. But there was always more to replace him.

@BrendanKOD 2 ай бұрын

Well considering the Orc Draughts as paralleling Lembas, it could make sense for their origin to be some sort of moss or fungus corrupted by Melchor to force to body to keep functioning. Though an important factor is that while Sauron was the sort of order obsessed planner who'd keep the scheduling of the slave plantations of Nurn working, Melchor was always more about the ideas with others being left to handle the details. So if some underling came up with a way to grow plants by reflecting the light of the simirals into garden caverns, Melchor probably wouldn't object too much if it got results.

@untitled55354 Ай бұрын

I like this take

@freelancershogun 2 ай бұрын

This was a neat video and an interesting topic. Thanks!

@fiddleback1568 19 күн бұрын

When Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli followed the Orcs, they found things abandoned by the Orcs. Like a bag of solid, black bread loafs.

@85arioto Ай бұрын

Great video, brother! Cheers from Brazil!

@richardsanchez5444 2 ай бұрын

7:50 i can't imagine any part of Mordor being fertile and green.

@christophercruz1513 Ай бұрын

So we learn nothing and waste of time

@creepingdread88 2 ай бұрын

Much like everything in LOTRs, the origin can be found in Anglo-Saxon history and folklore, as 'Orc', is the Old English word for demon. Of course, orcs, in this case, aren't what a Christians would consider a demon, as Christianity and Jehadism didn't exist at the time. Therefore, they aren't interchangeable, but if you think of Eru Ilúvatar, as God, Morgoth as Satan, it's makes sense to think of orcs as demons. In Tolkien's world, orcs and goblins are the same thing. The reason Tolkien changed the word from goblin to orc, is due to goblin being an Old French word, (gobelin) and not an Anglisc word (Old English). Old French doesn't fit with Tolkien's narrative of making a story using Anglo-Saxon folklore. What do demons eat? Morgoth transformed them into orcs, the same way he created dragons and balrogs, with evil, using his own power to do so. Therefore, I'd assume orcs, dragons, balrogs, etc, don't need to eat to survive, as they're surviving from the unnatural power Morgoth used to create them. They eat meat when they can find it and drink orc draft for energy. Smaug didn't leave Erebor for years, and he's huge. Which suggests, it's the same for all of Morgoth's creatures.

@middleearthtales 2 ай бұрын

quite a different approach. thank you for sharing. Although Melkor did not create the Balrogs, what you say applies to dragons as well. But at least Smaug must go out and feed himself with animals. Still it is an interesting thought that these creatures do not need to eat thanks to Melkor's dark power. The fact that Melkor lost his power as the centuries passed may also support this. But the fact that orcs reproduce even after Melkor is gone shows that they do this naturally? You have given me something new to think about

@creepingdread88 2 ай бұрын

@@middleearthtales Morgoth losing his power over time, due to creating/altering so many creatures, seems to suggest the orcs, dragons etc, are, in a sense, supernatural. Thinking of them in the same way we would a demon, might not be so different. It might be why they eat one another and why the elves and men burn their bodies. That leads to a great big rabbit hole, though, doesn't it? lol The orcs reproducing naturally, doesn't conflict with this, but they possibly became weaker over time, as they didn't gain any more power. Saruman, might have done something similar, but who knows if he was capable or even powerful enough to do something like that. Very true, he didn't create the balrogs, I don't know why I said that. Probably because I was thinking of Peter Jackson's balrog. lol He made the balrog look really cool, but at the same time, he made them seem like simple monsters, when they should have been more intelligent and humanoid looking. A fiery version, similar to how Galadriel looked when she imagined taking the ring, would have been more in keeping with the books. For people, such as yourself, who has a deeper interest in Tolkien's work, learning about Anglo-Saxon history and folklore, would be very useful. Smaug was taken from Beowulf, Beren having his hand bitten off, is taken from the Anglo-Saxon God of War, Tiw (whom we named Tuesday after). He also lost a hand to a wolf. Woden was known to walk Middle Earth (that too) as an old man, much like Gandalf, not to mention, the obvious, such as dragons, trolls, elves, dwarves etc. Anglo-Saxon history is incomplete, due to them not writing anything down. Tolkien, a professor of Anglo-Saxon, wrote LOTR in an attempt to fill in the holes and make a good story out of it. He was somewhat successful, the story is certainly great, but I think he failed trying to complete Anglo-Saxon folklore, as very few people are even aware that's what LOTR is about. What are your thoughts on this?

@jamesbaggett3655 2 ай бұрын

You play world building rts games don't you 😅

@creepingdread88 2 ай бұрын

@@jamesbaggett3655 I have no idea what an rts game is. If that's some kind of Dungeons and Dragons type game, then certainly not. I'm not a nerd.

@aleale6277 22 күн бұрын

Orc comes from an old english loanword which 100% comes from latin orcus, which it *might* derive from etruscan, a pre-indoeruropean language, Orcus was an ancient chtonic deity, not a demon. It probably changed of meaning with the spreading of christianity when many pagan myths became folklore. Orchi/ogres are part of many if not most european folktales, and are not specifically anglosaxon, but predate them. Ogres are cannibal brutes with a human form. Orcs as intended by Tolkien are his own creation, inspired by the saga take on ogres. "Ogre" retained most of its original form in italian: orco. As for Tolkien's orcs being akin to demons it is incorrect, we have actual demons in LOTR lore: the maiar. Tolkien wanted to rework the origin of the orcs since the thought of orcs being presented as an inherently evil sentient people bothered him, now we only know they are Arda creatures twisted by Melkor. Orcs being tortured elves is not canon.

@cryptohighlife1414 26 күн бұрын

Love what ur trying to do here, got the perfect voice for epic fantasy, keep it up

@richardsanchez5444 2 ай бұрын

I think Tolkien would be happy for us to discuss and wonder how the things he left unexplained workerd. We fill in the gaps with our imagination and that makes me love Middle-Earth even more.

@austind9675 Ай бұрын

Is this AI narrator or….

@robertcutts3929 17 күн бұрын

Sure as hell sounds like it.

@Fan_Made_Videos 2 ай бұрын

Orc draft is basically jaegermeister

@RyanYoxo 2 ай бұрын

Reading the title of the video and seeing it’s duration, I neeeed to come in and save people time. How did he feed the army of orc? With maggoty bread. That simple. You’re welcome

@YoraKhunt849 28 күн бұрын

You know what they didn't eat? Hobbit legs.

@patrickbollinger774 2 ай бұрын

What if melcor made fungus, mushrooms? Makes sense, they can be nutritious as well as medicinal, and they feed on rot, rotting plant matter that is.

@youcanttakemyDIGNITY 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much Dragon 🙋

@jakefrost8017 2 ай бұрын

Well, they also ate each other so they prolly eat anything meaty and rotten 😅

@everydaychristianapologeti2614 2 ай бұрын

This video is next level. Great thought exercise. The only thing plausible I've heard is the "black liquid". All the other stuff proposed in the comments doesn't even work for 1000 troops. The problem of sustenance resource management is so critical and nuanced, that through the centuries, the best generals have always known: The best way to beat an army is to attack their headquarters and supply. Some of the most powerful armies in history have lost major campaigns due only to starvation. Some of the answers offered do not appreciate the fragility of this issue.

@Marcus-ki1en 2 ай бұрын

I have always thought of the Orc Draught like a black Guinness, maybe a little stronger. As far as Angband, since the slave, breeding and other pits were full of creatures, no reason to think Soilent Green (or black) was not a common food item.

@tamisthewizard3199 Ай бұрын

I know they are magic but my major problem with the cannibalism theory is real life energy transfer: consuming an organism grants far less energy than that required to build it in the first place.

@drewfugiel2361 2 ай бұрын

If they bred so rapidly my thought is that they also probably bred orcs specifically for food, like pigs

@zayedbinimran957 2 ай бұрын

Probably could have also bred some orcs for farming

@neenee8194 2 ай бұрын

Orcs dont breed, they dig them up from these big sacks in the ground.

@PalmtreeWpg 2 ай бұрын

Per comment at 9:40 Tolkien DID have the bandwidth however to devote a quarter of the second book to the details of cooking a single pot of soup, let’s remember.

@byoobyoo1280 2 ай бұрын

If they are cannibals as we have seen in the movies they would probably eat anything that moves. 😅

@thebaconcruesader 2 ай бұрын

So... Here's a thought What if Melkor was breeding animals in some of the deepest, darkest pits of Angband? I mean, it may sound silly but anyone with a self sustaining underground base in Minecraft does exactly that :D Or maybe it's also some form of dark magic that both the dark lords can sustain their armies without having to use as much food as say men or dwarves may need to consume!

@thylordsatan666 Ай бұрын

With Meat cause “ Its back on the menu boyz”

@TristanWintle 2 ай бұрын

If they can somehow mass-produce that orc juice then I don't see what all the speculation is about. They drink orc juice. And maybe some maggoty bread from Nurn as a supplement.

@littlebigveteran503 2 ай бұрын

elrond gave gandalf a similar draught in the fellowship. They used it whilst trying to climb caradhras

@Hikkikomorivlogger 2 ай бұрын

If you watch " The Tower of Cirith Ungol" fight scene, you could see orcs eating on some strange dark liquid in their bowl, which made them upset since the fight of two orcs disturb their feeding frenzy. And on another scene, one orc hit another orc but with a leg of a human or hobbit, stating they might had fed on mankind or their human slaves or prisoners of war.

@Zaneth0 2 ай бұрын

Although I could see them eating just about anything they come across, meat, bugs, plants, slaves, I could also see them breeding (however they achieve this) at such a prolific rate that cannibalism would almost have to be widespread to offset their growing numbers and prevent famine.

@ikasando 20 күн бұрын

I remember getting the original Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans in the 90's. In the little booklet that came with the CD, it told the little story of the Orcs coming through the portal into the human world. Anyways, I remember it mentioning the "Tasty grain" that grew there. Having played D&D forever, warcraft, Warhammer, Tolkien, I've Always assumed Orcs eat anything...literally. From cannibalism to fine meals. It's whatever they can get their hands on, with some grog to wash it down.

@ButthurtImmigrant Ай бұрын

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@Dranwulf 2 ай бұрын

Bugs from the deep, forgotten ones that no mortal should see. That's what the orcs fed on, I bet, whatever species that was easy for them to indulge in.

@user-uh8ph6yy5j 2 ай бұрын

It’s hard to imagine them doing any kind of cooking or any kind of farming cause of their evil nature, it takes nurturing to do farming and orc have NONE of that in them at all

@msharp6887 2 ай бұрын

They could use slaves

@djdarksidejungle559 2 ай бұрын

its in the book he had massive slave filled fields around the sea of nurnen so next question

@rbo3193 2 ай бұрын

Wow you sound like a helmut...Next question what a goon

@akanji8285 2 ай бұрын

Well we know meat wasn’t on it because they were super stoked to finally get some

@maladamedialabs4214 2 ай бұрын

Perhaps the siege of Angband wasn't as tight as described. Hidden tunnels could bring in food. Tunnels under the people attacking the fort could be used to snatch foodstuffs and prisoners to eat.

@andrewg.carvill4596 2 ай бұрын

When Frodo and Sam were in Imladris, in one of Tolkien's most chillingly written episodes, Sam came upon what looked like the remains of an orcish cannibalistic feast, if it wasn't indeed men they'd been eating. And one of Saruman's orcs said how the White Hand (Saruman) gives them man-flesh to eat. They weren't funny buffoons, these orcs.

@nemo0036 Ай бұрын

No, I remember the book. 10,000 comprised of Uruk-Hai is more of a movie thing. Even though you mentioned Dunlendings, they weren't the only other contingent in said army. In the books, Saruman's army numbered 10,000 but was way more ramshackle than depicted in the movie. Said 10,000 consisted of Uruk Hai, Orcs, "half-orcs and goblin-men", and contingents of Dunlendings (Men of Dunland persuaded by Saruman due to their hatred of Rohan). It was only a skeleton force that was left in Isengard. Iirc, some 3 dozen men that didn't even put up much of a fight, though understandably so.

@replicant_7774 2 ай бұрын

Orks were killed and cooked in a pot as a form of corporal punishment. Saruman fed his armies with the spoils sent to him by his men in the Shire.

@MoonDog991 19 күн бұрын

In Shadow of Morder there was a region described as an area that was used for food production, so that could mean there was some agriculture in their society. Whether that means growing food for animals or growing their own food could have been possible.

@WraithHeart 17 күн бұрын

Angband was... on its surface, a fortress, nestled in a mountain. But from my readings of Tolkien's works, Angband's fortress was also deep, dark, and full of, "nameless things." These, "nameless things," sound intimidating, for sure, but if you've been born and raised in the dark, you will hunt in the dark. As other commentors mentioned, it could have been mushrooms, worms, insects, etc, all things that lurk in the dark. But, with Melkor, he *knew* of the nameless things. So, I think it is possible that those in Angband knew of those things as well, and hunted the least... problematic of those things. I, personally, think that's where they got their meat.

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@WilliamWalls-iz2rv 2 ай бұрын

If you're serving orcs to your orcs you're going to run out of orcs eventually....

@martintieber7756 2 ай бұрын

The battle of unnumbered tears must have included at least 2 or 3 hundred thousand orcs (plus balrogs, dragons, wolves and other foul creatures). The armies of maedhros and fingon were each several tens of thousand strong...and the warriors of the first age, especially the elves were terrifying opponents to the evils of morgoth.

@grimlock6657 2 ай бұрын

Sulfuric snails from mount of doom and it depends what's available in surrounding areas

@christiansmith7358 16 күн бұрын

400 year siege: you must have a primary energy source that organisms at the bottom of the food chain feed on. That energy source does not need to be light. Presumably Melkor invented a form of underground agriculture based on geothermal energy. It is conceivable that he (and Sauron) had abundant food sources deep underground similar to the abundance of food at the bottom of the oceans where geothermal energy supports enormous fucundity and variety of lifeforms. side note: Melkor himself was a powerful source of energy. Much of his energy went directly into the earth itself, and he perhaps had ways of extracting his own energy from the earth to create food for his monsters. He also fed various monsters directly from his own energy (e.g. Carcharoth and Ungoliant)

@ozmozis6073 2 ай бұрын

Question. Can you speculate that all the Rings, if successful, would've been by Sauron to gather the forces under the control of the One Ring, to free Morgoth? To take on the Valar?

@user-wi4sd2pd2c 18 күн бұрын

If you are eating, you have to crap....3 million orcs crapping, oh the smell! 😆

@alfonszitterbacke318 17 күн бұрын

I say, the human allies served another purpose than fighting: a self-transporting, always fresh and high-quality meat menu.

@Edward-nf4nc 2 ай бұрын

Look at Wizards and Warriors ecomany of Mordor or how Sauron kept his allies loyal. That should answer your questions!

@theautodidact7545 29 күн бұрын

They came from the mantle of the Earth. Conjured by dark arts.

@MrBottlecapBill 25 күн бұрын

Although Angband was under siege it was, much like Mordor, never surrounded. The Silmarillion clearly talks about the humans, elves, dwarves etc that Morgoth (and later Sauron) and the orcs capture during raids etc........to use as slave labour. There was always food coming in and out and it's not like the Siege of Angband meant he Noldor were sitting on the door steps. In fact they were based quite a long distance away and the northern reaches, which we know as Arnor and the shire in later tales........were never blocked by siege at all. Angband was doing just fine.

@berrypatchhusbando5263 Ай бұрын

Sustaining a growing population of Orcs by feeding them other Orcs… seems kinda counterproductive 😂

@jamesjohnson7905 2 ай бұрын

Magic

@achtundvierzigsieben Ай бұрын

3:47 sounds like Jägermeister, lol

@msharp6887 2 ай бұрын

He didn’t . They kept them starving so they would fight just to eat the enemy

@Umael84 Ай бұрын

Who wants there army to be at bad condition?

@msharp6887 Ай бұрын

@@Umael84 someone who doesn’t care about his soldiers

@Umael84 Ай бұрын

@@msharp6887 then why have them

@msharp6887 Ай бұрын

@@Umael84 to fight…. They were easily produced disposable troops

@Umael84 Ай бұрын

@@msharp6887 still needs food lol

@svignesh9662 21 күн бұрын

History of traditional Mordorian Cuisine. This could potentially be a new and innovative video. 😅😂

@jackruby6696 2 ай бұрын

I believe saruman got most of his food from Sauron initially and then from pillaging

@fiddleback1568 19 күн бұрын

The Easterlings seemed to have been like the Mongols.

@griffiththechad9483 2 ай бұрын

Lots and lots of Grog and manswine

@holeeshi9959 2 ай бұрын

Sauron's orcs objecting to Saruman's Uruks eating orc flesh means likely orcs aren't cannibalistic unless forced. Melkor: he twisted elves into orcs, he likely also twisted some plants that grows in the sun into plants that grows in the dark like fungus or mold, sprinkle a little magic and you get "orc draft" Sauron: he is not just feeding orcs, but Orcs AND men. but both Orcs and easterlings seems to have ways to sustain a population in their disorganized state, I presume Orcs were semi-nomadic beast herders while the easterlings were adept farmers, so Sauron can easily expand the operation by setting up "factory farms"/coollective farms(would fit right into his MO) that produce a large stockpile of grains(LOTR books does mention grains and then there is "maggoty bread"), fungus, and meat. and what he can't farm, he raids and trades. Saruman: Uruk Hai holds no reservation about eating Orc meat, but the lack of agriculture still concerns him, and likely Mordor is supplying them, but whatever he can't get, he go on raids. or even pretend to be nice and trades grains for wizard service with Rohan and Gondor

@gatorbait9385 Ай бұрын

Orc draught is most likely a smoothie made with orc flesh

@GnosticAtheist 21 күн бұрын

I assumed they had farms with longpig. Longpig will eat anything and even grow their own food, so they would be good livestock as long as the orcs weed out those that seem to smart.

@kendo2377 2 ай бұрын

I remember reading the orcs feeding the hobbits gray bread (which they ate) and some sort of meat (which they didn't). The implication was orcs were eating things even a hungry hobbit would pass up. Maybe the gray bread was the Mordor version of Lembas.

@angelz8861 2 күн бұрын

I like to think they have a evil mcdonalds or something

@ceofroggooo 21 күн бұрын

I belive that counting saurons orks should include the ones that were attacing erebor even tho theres close to zero information about them i would estimate that the army needs to be big enough to overrun the woodland elves and erebor to a point where they cant leave theyre foretresses to help in the war

@RoyalZarak Ай бұрын

“Meat is back on the menu, boys!”

@knivesmcdougal6496 2 ай бұрын

@burtbot GOSH!

@martinblake2278 21 күн бұрын

Answer is easy. Plot Armor is how they got fed and multiply fast.

@abbynormall207 2 ай бұрын

I think these are interesting questions

@williamhammond9090 29 күн бұрын

Saruman stated that the Orcs were once elves but were twisted but by the dark powers.

@MinusTheRogue Ай бұрын

Meat was only on the menu when a fellow orc “accidentally” died.

@ants7279 Ай бұрын

It's said that after the Loard of the rings the humans killed what was left of Saurans alies including the Easterling Empire the Orks where hunted near Extinction and only survived by hiding deep inside the mountains.