Making the Uruk-hai - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

Galin · 12-01-2012, 12:17 PM

I think the Uruk-hai (which generally means 'Orc-folk') are Orcs, not the result of breeding Men with Orcs. Anyway, Tolkien does mention orc women -- in a letter which wasn't published in the book The Letters of JRR Tolkien however, but came to light somehow, possibly due to an auction.

I think Saruman mixed men and orcs to create the Half-orcs, not his Uruk-hai (who boast that they eat man-flesh).

12-01-2012, 12:17 PM	#1
Galin Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 1,036	I think the Uruk-hai (which generally means 'Orc-folk') are Orcs, not the result of breeding Men with Orcs. Anyway, Tolkien does mention orc women -- in a letter which wasn't published in the book The Letters of JRR Tolkien however, but came to light somehow, possibly due to an auction. I think Saruman mixed men and orcs to create the Half-orcs, not his Uruk-hai (who boast that they eat man-flesh).