Goblin-men

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"But these creatures of Isengard, these half-orcs and goblin-men that the foul craft of Saruman has bred, they will not quail at the sun."
Gamling[1]

Goblin-men were a people or race of creatures that were bred by Saruman, apparently by blending the races of Orcs and Men.[source?]

They were similar with the Half-orcs, at least in their resistance to the sunlight, an attribute that differentiated them from the full Orcs.[1]

The Squint-eyed Southerner was possibly a Goblin-man, as Frodo Baggins commented that he looked "more than half like a Goblin."[2]

It is possible that "Goblin-men" is another term for the Uruk-hai, as previously Uruk-hai were called "Goblin-soldiers", when Boromir observes the fallen Uruk-hai -

"There were four goblin-soldiers of greater stature, swart, slant-eyed, with thick legs and large hands. They were armed with short broad-bladed swords, not with the curved scimitars usual with Orcs: and they had bows of yew, in length and shape like the bows of Men."[3]

"Men" is often used as a term for soldiers in general. We know that both Goblin-men and the Uruk-hai are sun resistant, and that Uruk-hai and Half-orcs both fought along side the Hill-men and Dunlendings in the Battle of the Hornburg.[1] If the Goblin-men were not the same as Uruk-hai, it would be strange for Gamling not to have mentioned the Uruk-hai as also not quailing in the sun along with the Half-orcs. The Uruk-hai are shown to gloat about their own sun resistance during this battle.

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