The source for this is in the Return of the King chapter The Land of Shadow: The only item on this list with canon support is the last one, relating to the Sea of Nurnen. The Uruk armies are most likely fed by food grown around the Sea of Nurnen (this is the only item in this list that I could find evidence for on the LotR wiki)ĭoes mainstream LotR canon discuss Orc/Uruk society at all? If so, does it support what was depicted in the game? Or did Monolith simply make up all of this?.Most manual labor is done by human slaves, and the Uruk are-unsurprisingly-extremely cruel masters.Captains will regularly increase their power/influence by holding feasts, staging hunts for Ghuls/Caragors/Graugs, putting themselves through trials of strength, and recruiting new soldiers.Captains will regularly fight other Captains, sometimes in one-on-one duels, sometimes in larger battles.

When an Uruk kills another Uruk of significant standing, he may cut off the defeated Uruk's ear and use that as proof of the kill.When a Warchief dies, one of his bodyguards takes his place, even if that bodyguard was the one who killed him.There are five Warchiefs assigned to each region of Mordor.Warchiefs typically have one or more Captains as bodyguards.

The most powerful Captains are called Warchiefs. We already know from the excellent answers on this question that the main storyline of Shadow of Mordor does not make a lot of sense in LotR canon.īut for me the most interesting part of Shadow of Mordor's story is the depiction of Uruk society, which the previous question's answers did not touch on at all.

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