November 30, 2002

Alright, I'm Confused
Razors

Something that's been bugging me for a while - in the FOTR movie, Gandalf says something about the Uruk-Hai being a cross between "orcs and goblin men" (or at least I think that's what he said). I took this to mean they were a cross between orcs and goblins, even though orcs and goblins are basically the same thing as far as I know. This kind of confused me, but then I thought, "Ah, who cares?" and got on with watching the rest of the movie.

But now I read the manual for the Lord of the Rings PS2 game, in which the Uruk-Hai are described as a cross between orcs and MEN - or in other words, humans. This would probably explain why they can "move in sunlight and cover great distance at speed", apparently the big selling point for the new breed.

So - are the Uruk-Hai actually half-human? Or am I even more confused than I thought I was?