- "I have my orders. Any trespasser found by the guard is to be held at the tower. Prisoner is to be stripped. Full description of every article, garment, weapon, letter, ring, or trinket is to be sent to Lugbúrz at once, and to Lugbúrz only. And the prisoner is to be kept safe and intact, under pain of death for every member of the guard, until he sends or comes Himself. That's plain enough, and that's what I'm going to do."
- —The Two Towers, "The Choices of Master Samwise"
Shagrat was a large, long-armed Black Uruk, Captain of the Tower of Cirith Ungol. He commanded one of two orc patrols that found Frodo Baggins after he had been poisoned by Shelob.
Biography
In the year TA 3019, Shagrat and his company, along with Gorbag's company from Minas Morgul, discovered the unconscious Frodo Baggins following the hobbit's encounter with Shelob, and took him back to the Tower of Cirith Ungol for searching.[1] Later his Black Uruk tower garrison fought over possession of Frodo's mithril mail shirt with Gorbag's company, and sent up the Stair of Cirith Ungol to investigate matters. Shagrat interpreted his orders literally: all captives to be searched, but left unharmed and they and their possessions taken to Barad-dûr. Gorbag coveted Frodo's mail shirt for himself, and soon a fight over the shirt began. Gorbag wounded Shagrat in the arm with a knife, but was eventually killed by Shagrat. Their respective followers began fighting also, and slaughtered each other over the next several hours.[2]
Portrayal in adaptations
The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
- "The scum tried to knife me. Kill him!!"
- —-Shagrat to the other Orcs in the third film
In Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Shagrat is of the same appearance as Uruk-hai in prior films. Instead of him, it is Gorbag who in the cave explains Shelob's habits, while Shagrat takes the Mithril shirt, saying it is his (while Gorbag intended to take it to Sauron), and in the resulting fight, Shagrat escapes with it. (Later in the film the Mithril shirt appears again at the Black Gates, in the possession of the Mouth of Sauron.)
Given Shagrat's adaptational disloyalty, he would almost certainly have been executed by the authorities for going against Gorbag's authority, which was aligned with the Dark Tower's interests, and that these authorities brought the Mithril shirt to the Mouth of Sauron.
Video games
In the video game of The Return of the King, Shagrat appears in the level of Cirith Ungol. After Sam kills Gorbag, Shagrat steals mithril and runs out of Cirith Ungol.
Voice dubbing actors
Foreign Language | Voice dubbing artist |
---|---|
German | Kai Taschner |
Translations around the world
Foreign Language | Translated name |
Amharic | ሻጋራት |
Arabic | شاغات |
Armenian | Շագրատ |
Belarusian Cyrillic | Шаграт |
Bengali | সাগৰত |
Bulgarian Cyrillic | Шаграт |
Chinese (Hong Kong) | 夏格拉 |
Georgian | შარატი |
German | Schagrat |
Greek | Σχαγρατ |
Gujarati | શગ્રેટ |
Hebrew | שאגראט |
Hindi | ष्हग्रत |
Japanese | シャグラット |
Kannada | ಶಗ್ರಾಟ್ |
Korean | 샤그 라트 |
Macedonian Cyrillic | Шаграт |
Marathi | शग्राट |
Mongolian Cyrillic | Шаграт |
Nepalese | ष्हग्रत |
Persian | شاگرات |
Polish | Szagrat |
Punjabi | ਸ਼ਗਰਾਤ |
Russian | Шаграт |
Serbian | Схаграт (Cyrillic) Shagrat (Latin) |
Sinhalese | ශග්රට් |
Tajik Cyrillic | Шаграт |
Tamil | ஷகிராட் |
Telugu | శగ్రాత్ |
Ukrainian Cyrillic | Шаграт |
Yiddish | תהאַגראַט |
References
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, Book Four, Ch. X: "The Choices of Master Samwise"
- ↑ The Lord of the Rings, The Return of the King, Book Six, Ch. I: "The Tower of Cirith Ungol"