Uruk Origins - What Are Uruk-Hai? How Are They Made? What Powers Do Uruks Have? Explored

[@sylvesterlee7548]

URUK : ORCs in general (meaning all orcs are URUK) URUK-HAI : AKA High-Orcs. Theyre Saruman's version of URUKs which are more stronger and more resistant and resilient than their older URUKs. Hence why Adar calls himself an URUK, just means he classify himself an orc. TLDR : All Uruk-hai is an Uruk but not all Uruk is an Uruk-hai

[@Tar-Elenion]

Uruk = Orc; singular Uruk-hai = Orc-folk; plural form Uruks = anglicized form of Uruk-hai Uruks, Uruk-hai great soldier-orcs of Mordor and Isengard; referred to lesser breeds as snaga, slave.

[@makharena5553]

Wrong you haven’t read the silmarion

[@90FirstGenPGT]

@@makharena5553 lul "silmarion" 😂

[@charlottewalnut3118]

That’s not actually true. The word only refers to the great warrior orcs the normal ones are called snagga the black speech word for slave

[@LLzChill]

I think Adar has a rich history that can really be interesting!! Hope they do much more with him!! He's older then most of the elves!! You know he's been through some ish!!

[@90FirstGenPGT]

Yesss

[@vana.johnson8845]

😁😜😝

[@GolgoHunter]

This show has me rooting for the orcs.

[@krisf4969]

Adar is unironically the best character and actor so far in the show.

[@thegametroll6264]

I always liked orcs. I like them from LOTR. I like them from warhammer. I even like them from warcraft but what these hack writers have done to orcs it isn't orcs.

[@djl5634]

@@thegametroll6264 I don't. They are twisted and disgusting. But I kinda feel bad for adar. But I would have ended him. He is clearly a threat. They definitely weren't ever gonna become peaceful. And I didn't mind the orcs. But the rest of the characters not so much. They are all bland and boring.

[@vana.johnson8845]

Everyone else as well.

[@That80sGuy1972]

The best bad guys are the ones you can almost root for, bad guys who have reason to be who they are instead of just being mustache-twirling 1-dimentional bland evil people who just tie ladies to railroad tracks.

[@christophercartlidge5466]

Goblin, orc or Uruk can be used interchangeably and are essentially your standard variation. Uruk Hai/ Orc folk are different, bread to essentially be super orcs supposedly bread by orcs and men or goblin men depending on the source. They first appear in the third age.

[@Tar-Elenion]

The Uruk-hai are first bred by Sauron, not Saruman, and Uruk-hai are not Half-orcs. Uruk-hai means Orc-folk (uruk=orc, hai=folk) (PE 17, Words, Phrases and Passages in LotR): "B Urukhai Uruk-hai 'Orc-folk'​" and: "'The Black Speech was not intentionally modeled on any style, but was meant to be self-consistent, very different from Elvish, yet organized and expressive, as would be expected of a device of Sauron before his complete corruption. It was evidently an agglutinative language, and the verbal system must have included pronominal suffixes expressing the object, as well as those indicating the subject: -ul is a pl. objective, translated 'them', and -ûk an element meaning 'the whole, all' (thrakatalûk I 267 is a misprint for -ulûk, as correctly written in the flame letters). The stem burz 'dark' is also found in the later Lugbûrz = Barad-dûr; in the archaic ring-inscription burzumishi is evidently made up of this stem + a particularizing suffix or 'article' um, and an enclitic 'preposition' ishi 'in, inside'. The debased form of the B. S. which survived in the Third Age only in the Dark Tower is seen in a few names (as Uruk-hai 'Orc-folk') and the fragment of vituperation uttered by one of Grishnakh's companions, emissaries from Sauron. I have tried to play fair linguistically, and it is meant to have a meaning and not to be a mere casual group of nasty noises, though an accurate translation would even nowadays only be printable in the higher and artistically more advanced forms of literature. According to my taste such things are best left to Orcs, ancient and modern." Uruks is an Anglicization of Uruk-hai (UT, Index): "Uruks Anglicized form of Uruk-hai of the Black Speech; a race of Orcs of great size and strength." Late in the Third Age the term Uruk-hai refers to the great soldier-orcs that came from both Mordor and Isengard (LotR, App. F): "Orcs and the Black Speech. Orc is the form of the name that other races had for this foul people as it was in the language of Rohan. In Sindarin it was orch. Related, no doubt, was the word uruk of the Black Speech, though this was applied as a rule only to the great soldier-orcs that at this time issued from Mordor and Isengard. The lesser kinds were called, especially by the Uruk-hai, snaga ‘slave’." Uruks first appeared in the 2400's of the Third Age (App. A): "In the last years of Denethor I the race of uruks, black orcs of great strength, first appeared out of Mordor, and in 2475 they swept across Ithilien and took Osgiliath." Saruman only started using them late in the Third Age (App. A): "In 2989 Théodwyn married Éomund of Eastfold, the chief Marshal of the Mark. Her son Éomer was born in 2991, and her daughter Éowyn in 2995. At that time Sauron had arisen again, and the shadow of Mordor reached out to Rohan. Orcs began to raid in the eastern regions and slay or steal horses. Others also came down from the Misty Mountains, many being great uruks in the service of Saruman, though it was long before that was suspected." Uruk-hai were involved in the revolt at Cirith Ungol (LotR, Land of Shadow): "‘Whose blame’s that?’ said the soldier. ‘Not mine. That comes from Higher Up. First they say it’s a great Elf in bright armour, then it’s a sort of small dwarf-man, then it must be a pack of rebel Uruk-hai; or maybe it’s all the lot together.’" The Uruk-hai (as great soldier-orcs) are not exclusive to Saruman, nor bred (at least initially) by him. They are Sauron's doing. They also are not the 'half-orcs' which Saruman did breed (Morgoth's Ring, Myths Transformed, Orcs): "Finally, there is a cogent point, though horrible to relate. It became clear in time that undoubted Men could under the domination of Morgoth or his agents in a few generations be reduced almost to the Orc-level of mind and habits; and then they would or could be made to mate with Orcs, producing new breeds, often larger and more cunning. There is no doubt that long afterwards, in the Third Age, Saruman rediscovered this, or learned of it in lore, and in his lust for mastery committed this, his wickedest deed: the interbreeding of Orcs and Men, producing both Men-orcs large and cunning, and Orc-men treacherous and vile." Further the "half-orcs" are distinguished from the Uruks in both LotR (Flotsam and Jetsam): "He emptied Isengard. I saw the enemy go: endless lines of marching Orcs; and troops of them mounted on great wolves. And there were battalions of Men, too. Many of them carried torches, and in the flare I could see their faces. Most of them were ordinary men, rather tall and dark-haired, and grim but not particularly evil-looking. But there were some others that were horrible: man-high, but with goblin-faces, sallow, leering, squint-eyed. Do you know, they reminded me at once of that Southerner at Bree; only he was not so obviously orc-like as most of these were.’ ‘I thought of him too,’ said Aragorn. ‘We had many of these half-orcs to deal with at Helm’s Deep. It seems plain now that that Southerner was a spy of Saruman’s..." ...and in UT (Battles of the Fords of Isen): "This was barely done when disaster came. Saruman’s eastern force came down with unexpected speed; it was much smaller than the western force, but more dangerous. In its van were some Dunlending horsemen and a great pack of the dreadful Orcish wolfriders, feared by horses. Behind them came two battalions of the fierce Uruks, heavily armed but trained to move at great speed for many miles. The horsemen and wolfriders fell on the horse-herds and picketed horses and slew or dispersed them." ...and later: "As soon as the enemy had gained possession of the eastern end of the Fords there appeared a company of men or orcmen (evidently dispatched for the purpose), ferocious, mail-clad, and armed with axes."

[@Edward-nf4nc]

The Uruks of Sauron are known as Black Uruks of Mordor. The Uruk-hai were made, or bred, by Saruman. As for Adar, I can see some orcish looks on his face and an age in his eyes that Celeborn, Lord of Lorien, does not have, but Thranduil does. Whilst he is not a First Generation Elf, neither was Thingol, 1st King of Doriath, although Thingol was born by the shores of Cuivienen. However, like Adar, Thranduil had seen a lot of the world and more hardship and exposed to danger more constantly than Celeborn. Also, Adar is seeing his 'family' suffer for merely existing, and being considered tools and canon fodder for evil lords! Hearing it put like that I feel pity for Adar, but not orcs or any type of Uruk! However, Thranduil has also lost people. He lost his father and half their army in the Last Alliance, and in the movies we see he has lost his wife, but that is not known in canon. But we sre told there was a shadow on Thranduil's heart like the sorrow of Adar for his 'family's' treatment by dark lords.

[@Tar-Elenion]

@@Edward-nf4nc _>"The Uruks of Sauron are known as Black Uruks of Mordor. The Uruk-hai were made, or bred, by Saruman.""As for Adar, I can see some orcish looks on his face and an age in his eyes that Celeborn, Lord of Lorien, does not have, but Thranduil does."

[@RubberTag]

So there are people actually enjoying the ring of power amazon series? Even though they focus so much on diversity instead of making a good series?

[@coldbreezeproductions]

I have no memory of some fights in this show, thats how bad they were. lolol

[@MJCarrilloCastro]

Ah yes, Benjen Stark the most fearful Uruk-hai

[@maxasaurus3008]

Uruk-hai could run and fight in the full sun of day while most of the black folk feared and hid from the sun sir.

[@mwinton1986]

You forgot to mention the sappers that operated the war machines

[@jongutierrez9116]

So the real question should be, where does the 45-70 come into play in Middle Earth. I think it’s when you’re dealing with the Fighting Uruk-hai , I mean, I’m not worried too much about the regular Orc’s. I know I can easily smoke an Orc with a 5.56 but when you’re dealing with a Fighting Uruk-hai , they’re bigger and more aggressive for the 5.56. So yeah the 45-70 is a great choice to take them down. It definitely has a place. Trust me I’m a Rangers of Ithilien

[@typoking]

"We don't see Uruk's in Rings of Power because the timeline doesn't match"...Neither does Galadriel showing up an entire age early, nor Gandalf showing up an entire Age early, and the hobbits shouldn't even BE hobbits at this point, they'd be Stoors, more akin to Smeagol.

[@khartog01]

Why is that one elf always getting beaten up and how did an orc sneak up on him?

[@landroamer1000]

I thought Uruk was just black speech for orc, and Uruk hia was black speech for ork folk.

[@grahamtotte7133]

You are %100 correct.

[@joewedg3703]

Previously unheard of in Tolkien’s lore? These writer muppets made it up…

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

The unfinished tales, and the silmarillion have a lot of lore in them that LOTR didn’t quite cover. Not many are well versed in the older works from Tolkien or even his post-LOTR work. Sure the writers are abysmal hacks. But also a great many people just don’t know.

[@nikopeligro1162]

@@tyvernoverlord5363 didn’t the whole world of Middle Earth start of with The Hobbit? JRR came up with the the story on a napkin or so I’ve heard. What books were you referring to as ‘older books?’ I could be wrong but I’m pretty sure all of his lore books such as ‘unfinished tales’ and ‘the silmarillion’ were written after ‘the hobbit’ and ‘LOTR’

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

@@nikopeligro1162 *The Hobbit* was published in 1937 ~Tolkien wrote the foundation for the *Silmarilion* in 1914. ~Tolkien called the earlier works *The Book of Lost Tales* and the later works that were part of them that he never finished were instead published in many posthumous publications. ~The foundational sketchup for the *Silmarilion* as a publizied work was begun in 1924. Throughout his life and career he was ALWAYS working, editing, refining, defining, nailing details down, and crafting the world and history of middle earth through the earlier un-published(in his lifetime) and cast aside works. Peter Jackson drew alot from those works in the Silmarilion and the other tales including the "Unfinished Tales" to make the Hobbit Trilogy. He didn't do for LOTR because there was more in that collection in terms of material because Tolkien was an established writer by the time the LOTR trio was published and thus the editors and publishers didn't torpedo the ever living snot out of them. VTDL;DR: _The Silmarilion and various other works crafted by Tolkien predate the Hobbit, even if they weren't completed or published._

[@frankf.2726]

@@nikopeligro1162 yea you're about that to point, but those other books after the lotr books are about the history and cultures of middle earth, he fleshed out the mythos, adar is made up. Alot of characters are made up. The production team bought the rights to lotr and not the lore books that the 2nd age takes place in

[@BardicProductions]

Read The Silmarillion everything he stated plus more is in there. It’s the overall LOTR Filler Book.

[@pierregauthier6999]

rings of power is fan fiction

[@Benetkabc2nd]

3:47 - they made him as an avatar picture of Orc Lumber - lol :D

[@teodorcasiean5431]

Nice vid

[@Richard-tu9wr]

Adar is a cool character

[@JohnJ-p7o]

I keep hearing the first 13 elves kidnapped or the 13 survivors the 13 first elves to Uruk.The screen crush guy Ryan Arey I think said it last I heard. Anybody?

[@charlottewalnut3118]

He wasn’t unheard of in talking story he didn’t exist. There’s a difference.

[@abdelhamidsherif4995]

Galadriel interrogating a prisoner? Where did her mental mystic powers go?

[@apollyonkatastrefia1586]

But how do orcs multiply? I've never seen a female orc.

[@perrybb2]

Lol that Uruk Berserker in the show definitely does not live up to its name

[@tr8086]

Show is Good!

[@TheMuph]

This show is Fan Fiction. Nothing about it applies to Tolkeins work in any meaningful sense.

[@papinbala]

are you pretending you dont know? Halebrand is Sauron

[@dougiebull2074]

Wtf show makes absolutely no sense.using a dagger to unleash a volcano who would read that and think it was such a great idea

[@marcusisgod2592]

What are niels theres no information online apart from being described as slave wrenches.

[@colinlaing2126]

uruk and uruk hai are not the same

[@grahamtotte7133]

Yes they are, Hai means "folk" in the black speech.

[@colinlaing2126]

@@grahamtotte7133 your right it does mean folk uruk means ork but uruk hai meaning ork folk refers to the larger breed of ork that saruman created

[@Tar-Elenion]

@@colinlaing2126 The Uruk-hai are first bred by Sauron, not Saruman. Uruk-hai means Orc-folk (uruk=orc, hai=folk) (PE 17, Words, Phrases and Passages in LotR): "B Urukhai Uruk-hai 'Orc-folk'​" and: "'The Black Speech was not intentionally modeled on any style, but was meant to be self-consistent, very different from Elvish, yet organized and expressive, as would be expected of a device of Sauron before his complete corruption. It was evidently an agglutinative language, and the verbal system must have included pronominal suffixes expressing the object, as well as those indicating the subject: -ul is a pl. objective, translated 'them', and -ûk an element meaning 'the whole, all' (thrakatalûk I 267 is a misprint for -ulûk, as correctly written in the flame letters). The stem burz 'dark' is also found in the later Lugbûrz = Barad-dûr; in the archaic ring-inscription burzumishi is evidently made up of this stem + a particularizing suffix or 'article' um, and an enclitic 'preposition' ishi 'in, inside'. The debased form of the B. S. which survived in the Third Age only in the Dark Tower is seen in a few names (as Uruk-hai 'Orc-folk') and the fragment of vituperation uttered by one of Grishnakh's companions, emissaries from Sauron. I have tried to play fair linguistically, and it is meant to have a meaning and not to be a mere casual group of nasty noises, though an accurate translation would even nowadays only be printable in the higher and artistically more advanced forms of literature. According to my taste such things are best left to Orcs, ancient and modern." Uruks is an Anglicization of Uruk-hai (UT, Index): "Uruks Anglicized form of Uruk-hai of the Black Speech; a race of Orcs of great size and strength." Late in the Third Age the term Uruk-hai refers to the great soldier-orcs that came from both Mordor and Isengard (LotR, App. F): "Orcs and the Black Speech. Orc is the form of the name that other races had for this foul people as it was in the language of Rohan. In Sindarin it was orch. Related, no doubt, was the word uruk of the Black Speech, though this was applied as a rule only to the great soldier-orcs that at this time issued from Mordor and Isengard. The lesser kinds were called, especially by the Uruk-hai, snaga ‘slave’." Uruks first appeared in the 2400's of the Third Age (App. A): "In the last years of Denethor I the race of uruks, black orcs of great strength, first appeared out of Mordor, and in 2475 they swept across Ithilien and took Osgiliath." Saruman only started using them late in the Third Age (App. A): "In 2989 Théodwyn married Éomund of Eastfold, the chief Marshal of the Mark. Her son Éomer was born in 2991, and her daughter Éowyn in 2995. At that time Sauron had arisen again, and the shadow of Mordor reached out to Rohan. Orcs began to raid in the eastern regions and slay or steal horses. Others also came down from the Misty Mountains, many being great uruks in the service of Saruman, though it was long before that was suspected." Uruk-hai were involved in the revolt at Cirith Ungol (LotR, Land of Shadow): "‘Whose blame’s that?’ said the soldier. ‘Not mine. That comes from Higher Up. First they say it’s a great Elf in bright armour, then it’s a sort of small dwarf-man, then it must be a pack of rebel Uruk-hai; or maybe it’s all the lot together.’" The Uruk-hai (as great soldier-orcs) are not exclusive to Saruman, nor bred (at least initially) by him. They are Sauron's doing.

[@Tar-Elenion]

Essentially everything you say in this video is nonsense, not Tolkien, including your pronunciation (ooruk, not yuruk).

[@grahamtotte7133]

Uruk-hai means Uruk folk in the black speech of Mordor. Hai just means folk. just as the oloq-hai means "troll folk".

[@seangere9698]

OK so at first there was Goblins and Orcs. Goblins being twisted Dwarves, Orcs being twisted Elves. Then Peter Jackson comes along and makes both Goblins and Orcs the same race and are now all Orcs but different rolls like ants have different Casts. Then he introduces Uruk-Hai as being basically twisted humans. Then this horrible show comes out and introduces an Uruk. And you come along and now lump everything under the Uruk name..... That would be like lumping Humans, Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits together and calling them Human..... Both You and Jackson are looking at it wrong. Uruk are the first generation, Orcs are the second generation, and Uruk-Hai are the third generation. Goblins are their own kind and have nothing to do with the others other then being created my Morgoth. Oh and dont forget about Trolls being twisted Ents or their evil counterparts.... So I guess Trolls are Uruk as well?????

[@fingolfin_6909]

I like this video. Well done explaining the Orcs. But come on mate, these battle scenes are bush-league. The genius strategies of Arondir?

[@kurt5312]

Idk i dont understand rings of power at all. Its like they never read a Tolkien book. I watched 10 video about explaning the show no one seens to understand it

[@donavonhoward114]

My personal opinion about the difference between Uruks, and Uruk-Hai is that Uruks are just bigger, tougher, soldier orcs that are bred for battle. The Uruk-Hai are soldier orcs crossbred with men by Saruman to overcome the typical weaknesses of normal Uruks.

[@tyvernoverlord5363]

Uruk-Hai are corrupted elves bred with “goblin-men”(i.e. half-man half-orc) along with some other black fudgery

[@grahamtotte7133]

Hai means folk in the black speech. So Oloq Hai means troll folk and Uruk hai means orc folk.

[@Fummy007]

I took Uruk Hai to have been made by Saruman by crossbreeding Orcs and Men (or Women)

[@shaunsimmons634]

Enemy of my enemy is a pal 😂

[@vana.johnson8845]

I really wanted like this video but the "Rangs of Impotency" SUCKS So Bad. With so much of it cover this idiotic show that one watching either falls asleep or baffled by the Protagonists behaving like Antagonists.

[@holeeshi9959]

tbh never had I wanted the bad guys to win as much as in that show(from the clips I watched), the only two characters that AREN'T completely insufferable and have make me feel some sympathy to are: the leader of the Orcs, and Sauron.

[@vana.johnson8845]

@@holeeshi9959 Good Ole Halsauron and the VampOrcs much needed viewers support 😁🧛🧟‍♂️.

[@GoatedJoyBoy]

the only way youll get me to watch the show is this right here

[@scribeofsolace]

It's pretty caca I've heard. Not sure tho. 😕

[@GoatedJoyBoy]

@@scribeofsolace thats what i heard as well to much woke bs apparently along with other things

[@krisf4969]

@@GoatedJoyBoy Numenorians don't like elves in the show because they "took our jobs".. The acting is just awful from minute 1 to the end. Save yourself the pain, I have suffered so you won't have to... Also Durin is a complete beta who only takes orders from his nasty black wife who is just as terrible as an actor as she is a terrible human.

[@brendangamble5088]

Guys stop hating give it a few seasons

[@krisf4969]

No.

[@TheSegert]

nah. i dont think i will. I cant accept this slaughtering of tolkiens material.

[@brendangamble5088]

It's being adapted for tv there will always be subtle difference and made up characters but instead booing it give it some time. It's not exactly the first directors have taken liberty with the story I.e legolas in the hobbit

[@greatwhiterex83]

Lol 🤣 a few seasons that was a good joke 🤣

[@shytguy]

Unfortunately that’s not how tv works. You don’t just give a show a few seasons to get better. It doesn’t go from garbage to a masterpiece. That’s why networks cancel shows Since the dawn of the tv series. Maybe that’s the way it works when an Amazon show spends billions of dollars and tries to control every aspect of reviews and public opinion. They don’t get to be held to the same standard as every other tv series I guess.

[@thedoughnutking9514]

not Tolkien

[@Commander_Raveth]

At last!

[@dumpsterchild5734]

Because he is the first generation of his kind of forks Orcs and yes I do believe they'll be more elf like but more wicked than a dark elf more corrupted dark hate and they will be even more better all it is they just go back evolution they were better smarter absolutely because they're he was a elf turn evil hats child and then they believe that if you make a child believe he was a different race it's like that you corrupted his mind Spirit his blood and his soul

[@holeeshi9959]

the show is complete trash but at least this character is somewhat decent, unlike the travesty that is their version of Galadriel.(or any of the good guys for that matter, never have I wanted the bad guys to win as badly as in this show. the literal TWO characters that aren't insufferable are the leader of the Orcs, and Sauron )

[@Bluerunt]

If it's a lore vid don't include the TV show or movies plz. I don't need a recap video I need a lore video

[@landroamer1000]

There are some really cool lore channels. Men of The West is good. So is the Broken Sword. This guy basically made all this stuff up, or used someone else who did as a source.

[@Boomken76]

🤔

[@coryakabueze4541]

Rings of power is trash

[@remcov2130]

You cannot take Rings of Power as a source. It is fanfiction which has nothing to do with Tolkien middle earth.

[@knight0fren551]

eh it was crap

[@TheEye57]

Show is garbage.

[@StuFlyboyReay]

Amazon’s TROP is utterly awful. Nobody gives a toss.

[@bowserbrowser6559]

The rings of power is in its own universe entirely separate from the Peter jackson movies and tolkien books

[@grahamtotte7133]

Thats the way to deal with this shitty show. just make in non canon.

[@landroamer1000]

That’s how I’ve been viewing it

[@SuperBIGGY84]

Show is lame AF this ain't even JRR material this is amazon trash