10 Lord Of The Rings Extras Who Got Themselves Noticed

10. Mauhúr (Man Flesh Orc)

When you have characters as heroic as Aragorn and Théoden, you need villains equally as menacing. But, when your main antagonist is a flaming eyeball, you need individuals on the ground to carry the sense of menace.

Extensive design and prosthetic work was done by Weta Workshop to create the most fear-inspiring background orcs. Most of these did little more than run around, burning rick cot and tree, or served as sword fodder for our heroes. But every now and then it was important to give these characters a little more meat to chew on.

After the capture of Merry and Pippin, we saw several interactions with the hobbits and their captors. Rather than just showing them as a snarling bunch of bad guys, the screenwriters helped sell their menacing presence with a few choice lines of dialogue. Among characters like Grishnákh - the poor fellow who tried to kidnap the hobbits, only to be crushed by Treebeard - we also got treated to Mauhúr.

He was a character referenced only briefly in the book but Peter Jackson fleshed him out, giving him the iconic "man flesh" line. Later he's also heard complaining about "maggoty bread". Interestingly enough the orc who delivers the "man flesh" changes depending on the extended or theatrical cut of the Two Towers.