Various births, created in the Great Darkness
New breed (Uruk-hai)
created in the
Third Age
Mutilated Elves
Other Names: Goblins, Burárum
Notable Quotes:
"You cursed peaching sneakthief! You can’t do your job, and you can’t even stick by your own folk. Go to your filthy Shriekers, and may they freeze the flesh off you! If the enemy doesn’t get them first. They’ve done in Number One, I’ve heard, and I hope it’s true!" (The Tracker Orc)
"Curse you, you filthy little vermin! Untie your legs? I’ll untie every string in your bodies. Do you think I can’t search you to the bones? Search you! I’ll cut you both to quivering shreds. I don’t need the help of your legs to get you away - and have you all to myself!" (Grishnákh)
"Go on, Gorbag! Yours are making more than half the noise. But let the lads play! No need to worry about Shelob for a bit, I reckon. She’s sat on a nail, it seems, and we shan’t cry about that. Didn’t you see: a claw cut off, filthy gore and a nasty mess all the way back to that cursed crack of hers?" (Shagrat)
"I gave him better than I got, but he knifed me, the dung, before I throttled him. You must go, or I’ll eat you." (Shagrat)
"You speak of what is deep beyond the reach of your muddy dreams, Uglúk. Nazgûl! Ah! All that they make out! One day you’ll wish that you had not said that. Ape!" (Grishnákh)
Biography:
Orcs are a hideous breed of distorted elven shape - bred in spells and twisted sorcery. Saruman created the first breed of Orcs and Goblin men crossed - his fighting Uruk-Hai, which pursued the Fellowship of the Ring throughout their journey. It was Saruman's Uruk-Hai which slew Boromir, son of Denethor, above the Falls of Rauros.
According to Treebeard, "It [was] a mark of evil things that came in the Great Darkness that they cannot abide the Sun; but Saruman’s Orcs can endure it, even if they hate it." Saruman's wizardry enabled them to be able to cover great distances regardless of the time of day, and they were definitely a new force to be reckoned with; ten thousand of them later assaulted Rohan at Helm's Deep.
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