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Originally Posted by Deberg_1990
Was the white Orc thing chasing them around even in the book?
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There is a passing reference to the orc, Azog, in the book The Hobbit. He is discussed far more extensively in the appendices to the Lord of the Rings, but canon would be that Azog was dead by the time the events of the Lord of hte Rings took place. He died in the battle of Azanulbizar (the battle in the movie where Thorin picks up the oak branch and therefore gets his nickname. Azog's son rules the goblins until the Battle of Five Armies, which will appear later in the current set of movies Jackson is doing.
But really all he did was keep an existing orc alive and turn him into an identifiable bad guy, which isn't too bad since otherwise the orcs are not too different from a plague of locusts -- nameless, faceless, numerous and bad news.