for the love of god

If we're going by movie canon, Uruk-Hai are a cross between Orcs and Goblin-Men, okay? Not Orcs and Men, and not Orcs and Goblins. I don't even get how you can breed an Orc and a Goblin to get a different creature anyway seeing as how they are exactly the same thing Although I think in movie canon the smaller crawling creatures that attacked in Moria are Goblins, compared to the larger Orcs of Mordor, which I like Sort of like poodles and german shepherds - same species, different breeds. And I think in Tolkien, that is what Uruk-Hai are: A different breed of Orc. It's speculated that they might have a bit of Man in them but there's already plenty of Orc-Men running about and I'm pretty sure they're never portrayed as über-Orcs. From memory, a bunch of them hang out in Bree and come to smurf the Shire's up in the Scouring. It's sort of like how there's three different breeds of Hobbit, and how the men of Gondor are different from the men of Rohan who are different from the men of Harad. And the ten billion species of Elves. Tolkien was big on that sort of thing.

I had hoped to stay out of this, to keep my non-nerdery in tact. I hate you all.