The passes there have become impassable because of the weather and the orcs that are everywhere. |
It's one thing to cast orcs or some other imaginary monsters as being evil. |
Now, not to put the foul creatures down too much, orcs are not the brightest things that you could find. |
Boromir dies trying to stop a band of orcs from kidnapping Merry and Pippin. |
All night they watch the armies of men and orcs dig trenches and build campsites outside the reach of their arrows. |
As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs. |