Great Orcs

Great Orcs
 / Great Orc
   The fighting Uruk-hai.
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   "Great Orcs... that kind is stronger and more fell than all others." (Éomer, from The Two Towers III 2, The Riders of Rohan)
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   Common name for the large soldier-orcs of Mordor and later also Isengard that troubled Gondor and Rohan in the late Third Age.
   In fact, this name is only ever used by Éomer, and may only have been current in Rohan, but the fearsome creatures it described had been known for five hundred years when he spoke these words: creatures whose name in their own Black Speech was Uruk-hai.

J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle-earth glossary. . 2003.

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