Perhaps you, like me, have become a huge fan of Adar on The Rings of Power and, by extension, feel fondly toward his beloved children, the Uruk — derogatorily known as orcs. If so, then you’ve ...

"Uruk-hai" simply means "Orc-folk" in Black Tongue, which plays into unconfirmed suggestions that Saruman created them by crossing Orcs with Men. The Lord of the Rings ' Uruk-hai are often ...

But certainly, I think the first Uruk, or he says there were 13 of us chosen, we volunteered foolishly for more power, or for children, in my case, or Adar’s case, I should say.

The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name. Now, a ...

Bartle Bull’s “Land Between the Rivers” is a sweeping and superbly written epic, from Gilgamesh fortifying Uruk, the “ur-city of all humanity,” around 2700 B.C. to the murder of Iraq’s ...