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  • Then there are the hardcore — the Uruk-hai of Tolkien readers — who have delved further, into The Silmarillion and beyond, who seriously grok the deep history and elaborate geography and endless mystical genealogies of Middle Earth.

    Archive 2007-04-15 Bill Crider 2007

  • I thought that the birth of the Uruk-hai in slimy placentas was much more puerile Hollywood than mature Middle-earth.

    They're (Not) Gonna Put Me In the Movies 2007

  • This weapon which is a wide bladed scimitar is the weapon of choice of the Uruk-hai orcs from the Lord of the Ring Trilogy.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Michael James 2009

  • The "gaffes" sidebar about "the Lord of the Rings" contains an ironic error: the pictured orc, described as an Uruk-hai, is not an Uruk-hai.

    Mail Call 2007

  • Russell Krone Decatur, GeorgiaThe "gaffes" sidebar about "the Lord of the Rings" contains an ironic error: the pictured orc, described as an Uruk-hai, is not an Uruk-hai.

    MAIL CALL: A RETURN OF THE RINGS 2007

  • FYI, 524 Uruk-hai and Orcs were killed compared to only 2 trolls in LOTR.

    What movies feature the most death? | YepYep - Your Daily Waste Of Time 2007

  • Post a thousand Uruk-hai by the lava pit on Mount Doom, just in case.

    LotR: 20 Lines To Overrule Them All Mirtika 2006

  • Remember in The Two Towers when the Uruk-hai captain chops off the head of the orc who wants to eat Merry and Pippin and then announces, "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" and all the orcs tear into the corpse of their former comrade?

    Moriarity or little green footballs want to eat my congressman! 2005

  • Remember in The Two Towers when the Uruk-hai captain chops off the head of the orc who wants to eat Merry and Pippin and then announces, "Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!" and all the orcs tear into the corpse of their former comrade?

    Lance Mannion: 2005

  • The lesser kinds were called, especially by the Uruk-hai, snaga ‘slave’.

    The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

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