Between Shadow of Mordor and its sequel, Shadow of War, we saw numerous canon-breaking ... and raises an army against him? Stupid, sexy Shelob? Ironically, the made-up and procedurally generated ...

My job in Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is to select the orcs I wish ... he'll bring them with him. If you've got a war chief and he brings his bodyguards, he'll bring them with him.