Who is Lurtz, Uruk-hai Leader? Created specifically for Peter Jackson's movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", Lurtz was the first of the Uruk-hai, a new breed of Orcs, leader of Saruman's scouts. Seconds after his birth, he choked the first Orc he saw to death, and when the other Orcs advanced against the newborn Uruk-hai, the wizard Saruman interrupted them, intrigued by the violence present in Lurtz, who became the Wizard’s second in command and led the first battalion of Uruk-hai in the battle against the Fellowship of the Ring at Amon Hen.