Maugrukh

Maugrukh commands the watcher-tower of Cirith Ungol, that high paranoid roost above the Morgul Vale where Shelob lairs in the under-passes. He took the tower by cutting down the previous captain on the stair, an old quarrel about a shipment of mail looted from the tarks at Osgiliath. The Eye sees little of him there, and he likes it so, for a captain far from Lugburz may eat his own ghash and answer to none. He hates Mauhoshat of Udun, who once named his garrison a kennel of snaga.