diff --git a/dat/data.base b/dat/data.base
index 80a89181a..872cb9604 100644
--- a/dat/data.base
+++ b/dat/data.base
@@ -4878,6 +4878,8 @@ shark
 	that no other creature in nature could make -- a bomb from
 	the depths.
 		[ Close to Shore, by Michael Capuzzo ]
+~uruk*
+~white*
 *shield
 	In his hands he took his shield, all glittering: no one ever
 	broke it with a blow or crushed it. And a wonder it was to see; 
@@ -5633,6 +5635,15 @@ unicorn horn
 unreconnoitered
 	Area of map which is beyond limited perception range when
 	underwater or engulfed by a monster.
+uruk*hai shield
+white-handed shield
+	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. Upon their shields 
+	they bore a strange device: a small white hand in the centre 
+	of a black field; on the front of their iron helms was set an
+	S-rune, wrought of some white metal.
+		[ The Two Towers, by J.R.R. Tolkien ]
 valkyrie
 * valkyrie
 	The Valkyries were the thirteen choosers of the slain, the