The Hobbit: 10 Things You May Have Missed In The Battle Of The Five Armies

10. The Original Bolg Makes A Cameo

One of the consistent criticisms across all three movies in The Hobbit Trilogy has been how the orcs, who looked grotesquely tangible in The Lord Of The Rings, are now mostly realised through CGI. What makes it even worse is that this wasn't always the plan - several of the orcs were fully realised with complex make-up on set, only for this to be done over with a fake-looking computer sheen later. Bolg, son of Azog and star of the never-ending fight with Legolas, is the most prominent example of this. In the finished film he's a rather nondescript Moria denizen - Voldemort with a steel-plate - but on set he was a properly imposing monster (see above). Although this incredible creature design (which was applied to Conan Stevens, the first actor to play Game Of Thrones' Mountain) was mostly cut, it still makes a couple of appearances. The first came in An Unexpected Journey, where he's one of the background orcs in the Battle of Moria. He also makes a more prominent cameo in The Battle Of The Five Armies - the orc who at the start of the movie removes Gandalf from his tiny prison and attempts to kill him is the original Bolg.