Uruk-Hai

[[File:Uruks3.jpg|thumb|346px|Fighting Uruk-Hai]]

The '''Uruk-Hai, '''also called '''Black Uruks''', and rarely the '''Uruk-Murdur''', were the most ferocious and warlike breed of [[greater Orcs]]. The breed can be divided into two categories: The Uruk-Hai of [[Mordor]], the original, and possibly more “pure” variant bred by [[Sauron]] in 2475 TA for his wars against [[Ithilien]]. More infamous, however, was the improved breed of [[Uruk]] introduced by [[Saruman]] in the [[War of the Ring]], a particularly fell, swart-skinned breed related to Saruman’s [[Half-Orcs]]. While these breeds were both considered “Uruk-Hai,” it is debatable how different in origin and physical nature. Oftentimes, larger breeds of [[Fighting-Orcs]] were recorded as either relatives or predecessors of the true Uruk-Hai; for example, [[Great Goblin|Great Goblins]] and [[Ashdurbúk|Ashdurbúks]] as [[Azog]] and [[Bolg]] were often thought to have been ancestors of these early Kû-Uruks.[[File:Uruks.jpg|thumb|Uruk-Hai in LOTRO]]

==Bloodlines==

*Dûr-edain: High-Man-Uruk-Hai Crossbreed of Isengard

*Drû-Uruks: Wild Man-Snaga-Uruk-Hai Crossbreed of Isengard

*feral Uruk-Hai: savaged, wild Uruk-Hai, probably descendants of uncontrolled breeding or Uruks escaped from Sauron´s pits

*[[Gusmûras]]:intermediate form or crossbreed of early Uruk and lesser Orc

*Kû-Uruk: elder bloodlines of [[Greater Orcs]] or [[Hobgoblins]] before the first black Uruks of mordor appeared, who were supposedly bred from the elder Kû-Uruk strain which appeared about TA 1600.

*Mordor Uruk-Hai or black Uruks: the Uruk-Hai of Sauron, introduced in TA 2475

*[[Scara-Hai]]: a tribe of early Uruks with [[shapeshifting]] ability (Uruk-[[Werewolf]] Crossbreeds)

*Fighting Uruk-Hai or Great Uruks (Uruk-Hai perfected): the late Uruk Breed of Isengard, Uruk-Hai with traces of [[Goblin-man]]-blood, fully immune to sunlight but unable to see in the dark

*Uruk-Warg-Riders: a smaller breed of perfected Uruk-Hai or Half-Orcs employed as elite-[[Wargriders]] see [[Sharkû the Orc]]

==Uruks of renown==

[[File:Uruks2.jpg|thumb|400px|Uruk-Hai in the Movie Trilogy]]

===Uruk-Hai of Mordor ===

[[Argdush]] [[Bolingul]] [[Gorbag]] [[Gordmúl]] [[Lagduf]] [[Murgash]] [[Muzgash]] [[Radbug]] [[Shagrat]]

===Uruk-Hai of Isengard ===

[[Flizpot]] [[Grimbosh]] [[Lugdush]] [[Lurtz]] [[Mauhúr]] [[Móg]] [[Sharku]] [[Thrugg]] [[Uglúk]] [[Vraskú]]

==Speculations==

The Uruk-Hai may have been bred out of captured and magically altered [[Dúnedain]] and [[Black Númenoreans]].

<nowiki> </nowiki>Alternatively, they could be the much worn-down descendants of Boldogs, having been bred with ordinary Orcs so many times that they were shadows of their ancestors. They could also be a combination of the two, being descended from both the [[Black Númenoreans|Númenoreans]] and Boldogs. In fact, considering how different the Uruk-hai of Isengard seem to be from the Uruk-hai of Mordor (one example being that the Uruk-hai of Isengard cannot see as well during daylight), it's possible that different Uruk-hai have different amounts of diverse ancestry, For example, the Isengard Uruk-hai are perhaps more human in ancestry, or at least ''less magically altered'' human ancestry (in contrast from Uruk-hai who are presumably descended from either magically altered humans, Boldogs, or both), which may suggest that Isengard Uruk-hai aren't in fact pure Uruk-hai, if there were even such a thing, and would count more as Dur-Adan half-Orcs.