Fellowship of the Ring, The: Lurtz (Lawrence Makoare)

Comments for death : Fellowship of the Ring, The: Lurtz (Lawrence Makoare).

Sorry Mouse, but I remember this scene as being rather cooler than your write-up suggests!
I thought the knife that Aragorn uses is his own, a stylish curved Elvish model? I think he recovers it to use in later films too.
Also, I've added "Dismemberment" as I'm pretty sure Aragorn hacks off Lurtz's arm as well.

Anyway, I thought this was one of the better choreographed fights in the series, between two suitably impressive opponents. Everyone is eager for Lurtz to die too, as he's just killed Boromir from a cowardly distance. In that respect, he's the most important orc we ever see.

Fair enough, i will go back and review the death on my Betamax video recorder to see if i have missed anything! It never really inspired me as a death, but i am guessing that is because i enjoyed the power and emotion of Boromir's death soon after.

Actually Mr. Old Bluffer, Lurtz is not the most important Orc in the trilogy. All he does is kill Boromir which isn't all that important (check out the Boromir comments section to see what I mean since I posted this comment originally there on accident). Lurtz only appears for 2 scenes anyway which doesn't sound like somebody important. The most important Orc is either Azog (the leader of the Orcs who attacked the Fellowship in the Mines of Moria and accidentally woke up Balrog, setting up Gandalf's demise), Radbug (Saruman's bodyguard who oversees the mining operations in Isengard), Ugluk (the guy who kidnapped Pippin and Merry after Lurtz was through with Boromir and later led an attack on Helm's Deep in the sequel), or Lieutenant Gothmog (the Witch-King of Angmar's buddy who helped him attack Minas Tirith). Lurtz: not so much.

Don't forget impalement. I dunno if it's an Extended Edition-only scene but I do recall that after Aragorn hacks Lurtz's arm off he stabs his sword into Lurtz's chest. The Orc commander then shrugs this off and merely pushes the sword inwards until it impales his chest in an attempt to get the sword stuck so he can kill Aragorn. This fails as Aragorn yanks the sword out and hacks his head off.

Actually, Azog didn't attack the Fellowship in Moria. In the appendices of ROTK, Azog killed Thorin's grandfather and fought hundred of dwarves until he was decapitated by Thorin's cousin, Dain in Moria.