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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>The '''Uruk-hai''' were a breed of great soldier-[[Orcs]], larger, stronger, and more fearsome than the common orcs of [[Middle-earth]]. The word Uruk was the Black Speech term for these mightiest of orcs, and they first appeared out of [[Mordor]] in the latter half of the Third Age, in the days when the power of [[Sauron]] grew strong again. Unlike lesser orcs, the Uruk-hai were tall, black-skinned, and powerfully built, and -- most fearsome of all -- they could endure the light of the sun, which weakened and dismayed their lesser kin.<br />
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They were disciplined and proud in their savage way, scornful of the smaller orcs they served alongside, and they made formidable shock troops, marching swiftly and far and fighting with a brutal cohesion uncommon among orc-kind.<br />
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== Origins ==<br />
The making of the Uruk-hai is shrouded in the dark arts of Sauron, who is said to have bred them in mockery and corruption of the free peoples. In the [[War of the Ring]], the wizard [[Saruman]], who had turned to evil and delved into such matters in his pits beneath [[Isengard]], raised his own breed -- the fighting Uruk-hai of the White Hand, whom he marked with his sigil. It was rumored that he crossed orcs with Men to produce his servants, the half-orcs and goblin-men, though the truth of their making was kept hidden.<br />
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== History ==<br />
Saruman's Uruk-hai were the spearhead of his war. A company of them, sent to seize the [[One Ring]], waylaid the [[Fellowship of the Ring]] at [[Amon Hen]], slaying [[Boromir]] and carrying off the hobbits [[Merry]] and [[Pippin]] -- though they were destroyed by the [[Rohirrim]] before reaching Isengard. The great host of Saruman's Uruk-hai marched against [[Rohan]] and assailed the fortress of the [[Hornburg]] at the [[Battle of Helm's Deep]], where they were broken at last by the defenders, the coming of [[Gandalf]], and the wrath of the Ents and the wild trees.<br />
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== Significance ==<br />
The Uruk-hai represent the perfection of orc-kind as weapons of war, the deadliest soldiers that the dark powers could forge. Their creation by Saruman -- twisting living things into instruments of conquest -- mirrors his own corruption, and their crushing defeat at Helm's Deep marks the beginning of the unraveling of his power.<br />
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