**RotK - Gothmog (Chief Orc at the Pelennor)

[Keeper of Dol Guldur]

Everybody hates the movie Gothmog, so it seems. I kind of liked the character. He reminded me more of the book's orcs, less beastly and animal-like and more smarmy if that's the word . . . sort of like a Klingon in attitude. <P>I admired the fact that he had the brass to not actually cower in fear at the presence of the Witch-King, no matter how much distance he attempted to maintain . . .<P>While the makeup was 'strange' at best, it did the job of making him distinctive and twice as foul as any normal orc. I wouldn't have minded seeing some hair on him though, or a helmet, or war-paint. I really think the Morgul-Uruks should have been rocking white crescent moons on their dark faces, circling their eyes and such. Would have been comparable to the Uruk's 'White Hand'. The Black Uruks seemed at least as badassed as the Uruk-Hai, and in greater numbers; no wonder Grishnakh didn't buy into that 'we are the fighting Uruk-Hai crap'.<P>I always tend to throw war paint on orc drawings, it seems like something they'd be into.