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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[LoTR] Why Gothmog, crippled commander of orcs attacking Minas Tirith, wasn't killed after his birth?
gpt
He might not have always been that way.

Disease, injury, and accidents could all have left him in the condition we first saw him in. By the time he got to that point, though, he was already a proven and valuable commander, and an asset to Mordor.