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All creatures in lord of the rings3/14/2024 ![]() Mûmakil (singular: mûmak) were animals from Harad resembling elephants. During the War of the Ring, however, Gandalf the Grey's friendship with Shadowfax, lord of the Mearas, led to Shadowfax allowing Gandalf to ride him at the end of the Third Age. Ever since, they have been the mounts of the King and Princes of Rohan alone. They descend from Felaróf, who was tamed by the first King of Rohan, Eorl the Young, and perhaps ultimately from Nahar, horse of the Vala Oromë. They surpass normal horses in the same manner that Elves surpass Men. Their lifespan is similar to that of Men and their intelligence and strength are extraordinary. The mearas (singular mearh) were a breed of wild horses in the north of Middle-earth. The kirinki are said to have been smaller than wrens, with scarlet feathers and "piping voices on the edge of human hearing". One of the many species of birds found in Númenor that were not known in Middle-earth. The Kine of Araw have been compared to aurochs. This horn eventually came to Boromir and was broken when he fell during the War of the Ring. ![]() Vorondil the Hunter made a horn of one of these beasts, which became an heirloom of the Stewards of Gondor. White oxen that lived near the inland Sea of Rhûn, called thus by the men of Gondor, who associated them with the Vala Oromë or Araw, "the huntsman of the Valar". It also suggests that the spiders appeared after the Shadow fell on Mirkwood around T.A. 1050. The Lord of the Rings adds that these spiders were of the brood of Shelob, who in turn was a child of Ungoliant, and that they inhabited southern regions of Mirkwood as well. During the events of the book, Thorin's company was captured by spiders and enmeshed in webs however, Bilbo Baggins managed to free them with the aid of his sword Sting and his magic ring. The Elves of Thranduil's realm tried unsuccessfully to exterminate them. The Hobbit describes a colony of sapient and over-sized spiders in the northern parts of Mirkwood at the end of the Third Age. Tolkien proposed variously that they had been either Maiar or just highly intelligent animals. Great Eagles Main article: Eagle (Middle-earth)Ī race of eagles of outstanding size, believed to have been sent to Middle-earth and Númenor by Manwë. Ī few paragraphs later it is said to attack with "beak and claw". A creature of an older world maybe it was. ![]() if bird, then greater than all other birds.neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers. Tolkien did not use this phrase as a proper name for them (it is simply a description fell means "fierce, awful, terrible"), but absent any other name, they are usually called "fell beasts". Crebain "crows" would be the regular plural form of Sindarin *craban "crow," a word which (while unattested) seems to have been adopted by Tolkien from Indo-European languages, particularly a pre-Germanic form *krabn-, whence the proto-Germanic *hrabnaz, from which descended both Old High German hraban and English raven.įell beasts Main article: Nazgûl#Steedsįlying creatures that were used by the Nazgûl as steeds during the later parts of the War of the Ring. During the War of the Ring, a flock of crebain searched for the Ring-bearer. They were often used as servants and spies by various evil powers, notably Saruman. Species Crebain Ĭrebain (singular: craban) were a large species of crow that inhabited the land of Dunland during the Third Age. In Quenya, an Elven tongue devised by Tolkien, the general term for animals as distinct from plants was kelvar. In addition, this list encompasses several living creatures that were referred to at some point by Tolkien as being beast-shaped Maiar (angelic beings) rather than proper animals such cases are annotated. ![]() ![]() This is a list of animals that appear in J. ![]()
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