HR Giger's Mordor V according to Mathew Mathew: How the Orc is made in a sausage factory

 

 

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HR Giger's Mordor V (1975)

 

a) Orc factory with a haggis for a factory whistle

There is some mystery about how orcs were bred in the world of Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien as it was never quite defined.

Looking at the painting Mordor V,  Mathew Mathew saw it as a representation of a place in the land or Mordor ruled by Sauron to be found in Middle Earth, the setting of Tolkien's novel.

He decided that the painting showed an factory for creating orcs using what seemed to be a sausage maker with the haggis being a factory whistle. 

 

 

The factory whistle

 

 

 

b) Orcs were spawned in sausages with suggestions of animalistic danger

He knew that in Lord of the Rings that the orcs do not give birth and that there were no female orcs to his knowledge. 

He decided that instead they come out of some glob with a lot of smoke, so here they were in these mysterious meat packages

So here we are with a sausage factory with phallic imagery. 

He thought that the sausages, taking note also of the one on the right with a stinger portray the animalistic danger being created which was the danger that these creatures/ orcs are.

Mysterious meat packages filled with orcs?

 

d) A fun title for the painting

A fun title for the painting to describe it would be "How the Orc is made in a sausage factory", which was a play on words of how people always say if you knew how the sausage was made you would not eat it.

 

Glimpsing the face of an Orc?

 

 

 

e) Birthing orcs in the movie Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers,

In the film the 2002 film Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, here is presented a scene from the extended edition released later on blu-ray we managed to seen the advanced breed of Orc known as the Uruk-Hai. 

The creature was being birthed in a breeding pit with these creatures being dug up from the mud or pulled out of the ground in their birth sacks by an earlier breed of Orcs revealing a fully grown new breed of orc creature inside.

 

 

 

 

 

 

f) What else it might have influenced?

Something that also came to mind when he looked at the painting were the movies Dune, Blade Runner, and Aliens as if it might have been a painting that somehow influenced them

 

 

1. Mathew Mathew: If you had to give a description on how Mordor V relates to the Lord of the Rings and everything else it relates too what would you say? Also when I look at it, is it just me or do the movies Dune,Blade Runner,and Aliens come to mind (Facebook mesenger: Wednesday 7th September 2022)
   
2. Mathew Mathew: I know Giger liked having his ex wife read to him while he painted and when she committed suicide he made the Mordor series (Facebook: Wednesday 7th September 2022)
3. Mathew Mathew: I was thinking kinda like a sausage maker for orcs. Like an orc factory with the hagus being a factory whistle. In Lord of the Rings the orcs do not give birth. Instead they come out of some glob. I think the sausage and the one with the stinger portray the animalistic danger of these creatures being created. (Facebook: Wednesday 7th September 2022)
4. Mathew Mathew: I still think it might have something to do with being an orc factory. I just remember watching Peter Jacksons Lord of the Rings and the Orcs just came out of machine like glob with a lot of smoke. Such an interesting series. (Wednesday 7th September 2022)
5. Mathew Mathew: there are no female orcs to my knowledge. That sausage factory with the phallic imagery I think says that and the sausage with a stinger represents the danger these creatures/orcs are. A fun title for the painting to describe it would be "How the Orc is made in a sausage factory" a play on words of how people always say if you knew how the sausage was made you would not eat it. heh heh (Facebook: Monday 12th September 2022)