Uruks
Quick Facts
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| Dates: | First seen in about III 24751 | ||||||||||||||
| Race: | Orcs | ||||||||||||||
| Pronunciation: | Probably 'oo'rooks' | ||||||||||||||
| Meaning: | uruk is a word from the Black Speech, meaning simply 'Orc' | ||||||||||||||
| Other Names: | Great Orcs, Uruk-hai | ||||||||||||||
The soldier-Orcs of the later Third Age
A term for the large soldiers more fully referred to as Uruk-hai
Footnotes
| 1 | In Appendix A (iv) of The Lord of the Rings, in the section recounting the history of the Stewards, we find an account of the first appearance of the uruks, which places their emergence during the rule of Denethor I. This passage seems to imply that the uruks actually appeared shortly before Gondor's great defeat of III 2475. |
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