LotR -- Book 3 - Chapter 03 - The Uruk-Hai

[davem]

Originally Posted by Aiwendil

What makes you say this? We have few glimpses in the Silmarillion material of Orcs in anything like the kind of detail afforded by this chapter; but I have always felt that the glimpses we do have do match up rather well with the depiction in LotR.

But was this episode written pre- or post LotR - don't have my books to hand?

Did the writing of episodes like this one in LotR change the Orcs of the Sil - was this change written back into the Silmarillion?