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AlteOgre wrote: Yep, you're right guys. I remember that now, from the movies. Any book quote?

Edit: Did some research.

Apparently, the Isengard/Northener party that was sent out to intercept the Fellowship was joined by a Mordor Orc party lead by Grishnakh. These were the Mordor Orcs Éomer had seen. This all took place some 18 years after Bilbo's Birthday Party ... so it's still questionable whether Mordor had regular forces pestering the Eastfold in TA 3001 already. It's not unlikely troops of Mordor were sent out for support of DG, Mountain Orcs and Isengard at the time, or for other supplies and messaging, but that requires less logistics than setting up camps and logictics for a more permanent presence west of the Anduin in the Emyn Muil imo. "'Some years ago the Lord of the Black Land wished to purchase horses of us at a great price, but we refused him, for he puts beasts to evil use. Then he sent plundering Orcs, and they carry off what they can, choosing always the black horses: few of these are now left. For that reason our feud with the Orcs is bitter.'"

- Éomer, in The Two Towers, The Riders of Rohan

Some years ago

Then he sent plundering Orcs,

Need I say more?

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