Orcs
Shagrat by Varda-(Valar)
Shagrat by Eru-(Valar)
by Varda-(Valar)
Nov. 18, 2002
Shagrat was the orc Captain of the Tower of
Cirith
Ungol with a company of about forty orcs. He was large with long arms.
The
livery of his company used the symbol of the moon disfigured with a
face
of death.
His company picked up Frodo after Shelob paralyzed
him
and Sam had left him believing him dead. Sam heard them talking,
discovered
Frodo was not dead, and tried to follow but lost them.
When the orcs discovered Frodo's mithril shirt,
Gorbag
tried to take it and Shagrat tried to stop him, resulting in the death
of
nearly all the orcs of both the tower and the Red Eye. Their noise let
Sam
know where Frodo was.
Shagrat killed Gorbag, barely saving himself from
the
broken-off spear held by the apparently dead orc. Gorbag accidentally
saved
Snaga by this distraction to Shagrat.
Shagrat escaped Sam (who had to choose between
finishing
Shagrat with Sting or stopping the orc, Snaga, who had gone after
Frodo)
and carried the bundle with Frodo's things away from the tower of
Cirith
Ungol. This bundle was later exhibited by the Mouth of Sauron to
confound
the lords of the western lands at the Black Gate.
References: Return of the King: "The Tower of Cirith Ungol"
Shagrat
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by Eru-(Valar)
Dec. 3, 2002
Shagrat was captain of the Orcs stationed in the Tower of Cirith
Ungol during
the War of the Ring. He slew the Orc sergeant Gorbag and squeezed
the eyes
out of another Orc called Radbug during a quarrel over Frodo's magical
items,
and was one of the few Orcs to survive the resulting battle between
their
troops. Even after losing the use of one arm, he still managed to
escape
the Tower and carry Frodo's items to Barad-Dur, with near disastrous
consequences.
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