Uruks of Mordor

The Uruks of Mordor were a stronger breed of Orc amid Sauron's forces in the Third Age.
==History==
Described as elite "black Orcs", these were the first Orc-kind in Middle-earth to be referred to as uruks, originating centuries before the Great Years when they made assaults upon Ithilien in 2475 of the Third Age.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B (It was almost a millennium later that Saruman in Isengard bred his own breed of Uruk-hai, someties called Isengarders). 
Boromir spotted Uruks of Mordor in Moria moments before the skirmish in the Chamber of Mazarbul between the Fellowship of the Ring and the many Orc-kinds inhabiting Moria.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Ch. V: "The Bridge of Khazad-dûm", pg. 338
Within Mordor, some of these Uruks were stationed at the Tower of Cirith Ungol. After escaping from there, the Hobbits Frodo and Sam saw Uruks march from Durthang towards the Black Gate amidst the mass-movement of all of Sauron's remaining forces.The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Chapter II: "The Land of Shadow"
==In adaptations==
===The Lord of the Rings film trilogy===
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Uruks of Mordor are frequently seen: the invented character Murgash is one of them, at the Siege of Gondor, and many others march through the Orc-camp encountered by Sam and Frodo in western Mordor. Most notably, Shagrat, in the Tower of Cirith Ungol, is portrayed as an Uruk.
====Depiction====
All Uruks depicted in the films are recognizable by their broader stature and long hair resembling that of the Isengard Uruk-hai. Gorbag was therefore depicted as a black Uruk, being instead skinny, with the natural slouch of other common Orcs.
===Ambiguation in films and games===
In some adaptations, the label of "Black Uruk" is made synonymous with Black Orc (such as in EA's The Rise of the Witch-king) or even Morannon Orc - on the grounds that all three names denote a tougher breed of Mordor-indigenous Orc.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Swart Uruks
Albanian 	Urukë të zi
Arabic 	الوركاءس الأسود
Armenian 	Սև Ուրուկը
Azerbaijani 	Qara Uruks
Basque 	Uruks Beltzak
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	черно Уруки
Catalan 	Uruks Negre
Croatian 	Crni Uruks
Czech 	Černí Skuruti
Danish 	Sorte uruker
Dutch 	Zwarte Uruks
Esperanto 	Nigraj Uruks
Estonian 	Mustad Uruks
Finnish 	Musta Uruks
French 	Uruks Noir
Galician 	Uruks Negros
Georgian 	შავი ურუქები
German 	Schwarze Uruks
Hebrew 	ארךס שחורים
Hungarian 	Fekete Uruks
Icelandic 	Svartur Uruks
Indonesian 	Hitam Uruks
Italian 	Uruks Neri
Japanese 	黒ウルクス
Kannada 	ಕಪ್ಪು ಉರುಕ್ಸ್
Kurdish 	Urukên Reş (Kurmanji Kurdish)
Latvian 	Melnie Uruks
Lithuanian 	Juodi Uruks
Macedonian Cyrillic	Црни Уруки
Malaysian 	Hitam Uruks
Maltese 	Uruks Iswed
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Хар уруки
Nepalese 	कालो उरुक्स
Norwegian 	Svarte Uruks
Polish 	Czarne Uruks
Portuguese 	Uruks Negros
Russian 	Черные Уруки
Serbian 	Црни Урукс (Cyrillic) Crni Uruks (Latin)
Sinhalese 	කළු උරුක්ස්
Slovak 	Čierne Uruks
Slovenian 	Črni Uruks
Spanish 	Uruks Negros
Swedish 	Svarta-Uruks
Turkish 	Kara Uruklar
Uzbek 	Қора Урукс (Cyrillic) Qora Uruks (Latin)
Welsh 	Uruks Du
Yiddish 	שוואַרץ ורוקס
==References==
Category:Uruk-hai
Category:Servants of Sauron
Category:Orcs
Category:Kinds of Orcs
Category:Evil
Category:Army of Mordor
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