![]() Tolkien does not say whether Saruman’s breeding program included improving or altering the nature of Uruks. This depiction is not inconsistent with the books if only in that it offers one possible explanation for a process that Tolkien himself never seems to have described. ![]() It may be that the mud-encased pods shown in the movie are Peter Jackson’s attempt to suggest that living Orcs were placed in magical cocoons and transformed into Uruk-hai. He does not explain how Elves could become so corrupted as to turn into Orcs. In the movie, Saruman says that the first Dark Lord bred the Orcs from captured Elves. In reconsidering the origins of Orcs later in his life, Tolkien speculated that the first Orcs may have been fallen Maiar who took on monstrous forms and debased themselves that these primeval Orcs may have bred and produced new generations which were subsequently blended with enslaved Elves and Men. However, in The Silmarillion the narrative suggests the Elven loremasters speculated that Melkor (the first Dark Lord) may have bred the Orcs from Elves whom he captured in eastern Middle-earth. Tolkien does not say how Orcs were bred or how Uruks were differentiated from other breeding populations of Orcs. This was a common naming convention practiced by many peoples in Middle-earth, including the Eotheod (“Horse-folk”), the Dunedain (“West Men”), and even the Elves. ![]() Saruman’s Uruks alone call themselves “Uruk-hai”, although that name means “Orc-folk” in the Black Speech. Q: Why Did Saruman’s Uruk-hai Come Out of Pods?ĪNSWER: In the book, the Uruk-hai are merely one tribe of Uruks, large powerful orcs who whom Sauron bred and introduced to Middle-earth in the late Third Age. This appears to be a sneaky way Peter Jackson paid homage to Tolkien’s implied origin for Orcs – that they were bred by the first Dark Lord (Morgoth) from captured Elves through manipulation by his power. Although this never happens in the book, in the movies Saruman’s Uruk-hai emerged from pods.
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