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 ...

If Galadriel had acknowledged Uruk rights when Adar had asked her “And then what happens?” in episode six of The Rings of Power, do you think he might’ve agreed to the “Us” Alliance?

AnuZigguratUruk #WarkaIraq #WhiteTemple Explore Mesopotamia some 6000 years ago, where one of the cradles of civilization and the birthplace of the first writing system emerged. In the fertile valley ...

Some viewers might immediately assume Adar’s Uruk is the same as the Uruk-hai featured in The Lord of the Rings movies, but the Uruk-hai are actually a later group, a different breed of Orcs ...

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 ...