Grim Orcs (Av. "Walkorok") were the tallest and strongest of the orcish tribes or breeds who had served Morgoth in the First Age, apart from the demonic Boldogs or Ogres or Orcs with noticeable traces of such maiarin blood.In built they were of similar size,stature and proportions as many of the Edain or some of the smaller Noldor, though they were still squat, crooked and had a somewhat bent posture.Indeed many secretly though they had been the descendants of captured Virtinoldor whose bloodlines had been sorcerously crossed with ,or who had been forceably interbred with, the earlier orcs, although the Noldor themselves abhorred any such speculations and forbade to mention these.The Grim Orcs were the direct ancestors of the greater Orcs of the Mountains of the Hithaeglir and the Greater Orcs of Barad-dûr who had served Sauron in the Second Age.They were indeed the very first known breed of Hobgoblin.After the fall of Angband many of them had survived in eastern Middle-earth and had formed several larger tribal realms on their own until they again came under Sauron's dominion and were forced to ally with the Men of Darkness under his Ringwraiths' command . In the First Age this kind orc Orcs had been the main contact between the Orcish races and the early men and some of the most cruel mannish cultures still remembered the Walkorok or Dwellers of the Beyond as their ancient allies and even great teachers, although slavery, cruelty, warcraft, human sacrifice, cannibalism and man-hunting, the domestication of war-wolves and sorcery seem to have been the most impressive things these creatures had taught their mannish pupils.
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- In the Book of Lost tales the troops who manned Morgoth's mechanical Dragons are described as "The Grimmest of the Orcs".
- The Book of Lost tales mentions "that certain of the Noldoli were twisted to the evil of Melko and mingled among these Orc...".
- In the same ealy version of the Fall of Gondolin Meglin was "suspected by his fellow Elves of having 'Orc's blood".
- After Finrod's Companions had routed out an Orc company of Angband they took their gear and magically assumed the shape of Orcs, implying these Orcs had roughly their bodily proportions, as their gear seemingly fitted them well enough.