Utûgi

The Utûgi

The Elder Orcs, fashioned in the pits beneath Zíkar by foul craft of Morgoth. Memory of them faded over the passage of centuries; even the name that was given to them, Utûgi, brought to mind only dimly-remembered images, unfamiliar and indistinct demons of the ancient world.

The Utûgi possessed a size, strength, and cunning that Sauron coveted but could not replicate; the Orcs he bred in later years could not match those that belonged to his master, and that deficiency rankled. After a long slumber they have been awoken together with their masters at the fall of Sauron.