Gudrith has been raised in Mordor, with a despotic father and a miserable mother that was kidnapped a long time ago. He learned how to survive the wrath of the Mouth of Sauron and suffered for his mother more than for himself. He sometimes tried to help his father’s prisoners, and a couple of times was cruelly punished for that by the Mouth himself. At first the Mouth thought of different ways to mage Gudrith do his father’s will, but then he discovored his son’s gift to sense emotions of others. Since then it was easy – instead of punishing Gudrith directly, he just made one of the prisoners pay for the mistake or trespass, and made Gudrith watch. This proved to be effective, and the boy stopped trying to help prisoners – be them people or elves. But no one else dared to touch Gudrith out of fear from the Mouth of Sauron.
Before Ellin died, she told Gudrith about his Numenorian heritage and through that – the Elven side of his nature he had had no idea about before. Unable to continue this kind of existance, Gudrith fled from Mordor and was since then pursued by orcs sent by his father, willing to get him back and to prevent him from joining the hated Elves. But Gudrith kept avoiding people out of fear to be caught and brought back, and out of fear to get surrounded by creatures with evil minds, whoever thoy might be.