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Wargaz cc wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: I feel like some of the elites should be Black Uruks of the Mountains, mentioned in the book. They are still Black Uruks of Mordor. Maybe Mordor send troops to control Khazad-dûm.

"‘There are Orcs, very many of them,’ he said. ‘And some are large and evil: black Uruks of Mordor.’"

- The Fellowship of the Ring, The Bridge of Khazad-dûm

The Gundabad Uruks are intended to be both the bodyguards of Bolg and the Black Uruks of Moria at the same time.

And the way it worked, in the lore, was that Sauron did, in fact, send troops to Moria, so to strengthen the Balrog's forces to the point where passage through Moria in arms would be impossible without Sauron's knowledge.

Gen. Grievous1138 (admin) comlink 12:02, November 26, 2015 (UTC)