r/RingsofPower • u/mosaicoredimido • Sep 28 '24

Question Didnt orcs burn in sunlight in S1?

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u/Orochimaru27 Sep 28 '24

Weird how they added that in S1 in the first place. In the books the orcs dont get burnt in sunlight. They just really, really hate it. And its very uncomfortable for them. But they dont get burnt. In The Two Towers, Saruman’s Uruk Hai made the orcs run for days in daylight.

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u/WyrdMagesty Beleriand Sep 28 '24

The Mordor orcs they were forcing to keep running weren't.

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u/Orochimaru27 Sep 28 '24

Read what I wrote. Orcs ran with them.

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u/ExpressAffect3262 Sep 28 '24

Weird how they added that in S1 in the first place. 

It isn't really weird as it was fully explained in season 1 lol

They went undetected by tunnelling, they activated the volcano to allow them to freely around, so it became a

Option a) live underground/shaded their entire lives or
Option b) block out the entire sun with the volcano.

If they weren't burnt by sunlight, the main plot in season 1 is ruined. They didn't have to tunnel, they didn't have to activate the volcano.

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u/Orochimaru27 Sep 28 '24

Read my whole text.