
Uruk-hai were later bred by the wizard Saruman the White late in the Third Age by his dark arts in the pits of Isengard. The Uruks in the service of Barad-dûr used the symbol of the red Eye of Sauron, which was also painted on their shields.
The Uruks first appeared out of Mordor in TA 2475, when they overran Ithilien and destroyed the city of Osgiliath.
3.3 Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War. 3.1 The Lord of the Rings (1978 animated film). Technically you can fault the movie and the extended version was quite nice to see (so I guess it wasn't a literal rewatch - no pun intended). Not that many movies have adapted that style (I reckon Avatar 2 will), but it is what it is. I can attest that I reckon I got used to the Higher Frame Rate the movie uses. I guess I do that with big budget movies. I will obviously watch the other parts too and I'm pretty sure they will up the ante Edit: rewatching it a decade later, I realize I may have been a bit too harsh on the rating. It is well played and it has the beginning of a great adventure, but it feels a bit over bloated. Apart from the technical point of view, this is a well made movie, but it never completely touched me. I think your eyes have to get used to that (in comparison to normal frames per Second that every other movie uses). Also the very HD 3D (or should I say the extra FPS) we got served made the movie feel like it was on fast forward. But what about the movie? It feels fun and it looks good (once you get used to the HD framing, which makes a few props look very plastic). Which he must have done, because how could you make 3 movies/parts out of one book? That is smaller in size than the original Rings trilogy that is. He apparently also put other Tolkien related stuff in it. It's a big scene and it feels like Peter Jackson put almost everything in it. And it seems, like almost everyone of those pages turns out to be in the movie.
I never came around to read the LotR books before watching the movies and I actually haven't done that until now (so maybe shame on me), but I did read 30-40 pages of the Hobbit.