Tolkien Gateway - User contributions [en]

Wargs

2006-12-12T16:20:09Z

65.189.189.148:

[[Image:John Howe - Wargs.jpg|thumb|''Wargs'' by [[John Howe]].]]
Taken from the Old English ''warg'', the '''Wargs''' or '''Wild Wolves''' are a race of fictional wolf creatures in [[J. R. R. Tolkien|J.R.R. Tolkien's]] books about [[Middle-earth]]. They are usually in league with the [[Orcs]] or Goblins whom they permitted to ride on their backs into battle. The Wargs speak a rudimentary language of their own. It is probable that they are descended from [[Draugluin]]'s [[Werewolves]] of the [[First Age]].

In ''[[The Hobbit]]'', the Wargs appear twice, once in chasing [[Bilbo Baggins]], [[Gandalf]], and the dwarves just east of the [[Misty Mountains]], and once at the [[Battle of Five Armies]]. In ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', they are most prominently mentioned in the middle of ''[[The Fellowship of the Ring|The Fellowship of the Ring]]'', where a band of Wargs, unaccompanied by Orcs, attacks the Fellowship in [[Eregion|Hollin]].

==Jackson trilogy==
In [[Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings]], wargs appear to be more like a "hyena-bear-wolf hybrid" rather than wolves, in an effort to distinguish them from regular wolves by presenting them as some sort of distant cousin. However, it should be noted that Tolkien never actually described Wargs beyond stating they were demonic wolves.

==See also==
* [[:Category:Images of Wargs|Images of Wargs]]

[[Category:Creatures]]
[[Category:Wolves]]

Category:Eagles

2006-08-16T15:25:56Z

65.189.189.148:

[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:Birds]]

Thorondor

2006-08-16T15:25:44Z

65.189.189.148:

[[Image:John Howe - Thorondor.jpg|thumb|''Thorondor'' by [[John Howe]].]]
'''Thorondor''' was the greatest of the [[Eagles]] of [[Manwë]].

Thorondor ([[Quenya]], ''Sorontar'', both of which mean King of Eagles) was sent by [[Manwë]], king of the [[Valar]], to watch over the [[Ñoldor]] after they arrived in [[Beleriand]]. The [[Eldar]] first encountered him when he helped [[Fingon]] rescue [[Maedhros]] from imprisonment from [[Thangorodrim]]. After that, Thorondor and the rest of the Eagles settled in the [[Crissaegrim]]. When [[Gondolin]] was built, Thorondor became the ever vigilant guardian of the city. He rescued [[Fingolfin]]'s body from defilement after [[Morgoth]] killed him, giving the Dark Lord a scar on his face. He and two other Eagles rescued [[Beren]] and [[Lúthien]] when [[Angband]] was aroused. When Gondolin fell, Thorondor rescued the survivors. During the [[War of Wrath]], Thorondor and [[Eärendil]] led the Eagles in battle with the Dragons, and may have fought with [[Ancalagon]] the Black. In Tolkien's writings, Thorondor is not mentioned after the War of Wrath. It is believed he returned to [[Valinor]], although his descendants remained behind.

In earlier versions of the legendarium he was called '''Thorndor'''.

[[Category:Eagles]]

Category:Birds

2006-08-16T15:25:19Z

65.189.189.148:

Birds of Middle-earth

Thorondor

2006-08-16T15:25:04Z

65.189.189.148:

Carc

2006-08-16T15:24:45Z

65.189.189.148:

'''Carc''' was one of the ravens who lived on [[Ravenhill]], one of the foothills of [[Erebor]], the [[Lonely Mountain]]. Carc seems to have been the chief of those birds, and dwelt with his wife above the [[Dwarves]]' guard-chamber on the hill. [[Thorin]] recalled him as being wise and famous at the time the Dwarves were driven out of [[Erebor]] by [[Smaug]]. When Thorin returned to the Lonely Mountain 171 years later, Carc was dead, but the ravens remained, led by his son [[Roäc]].

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Birds]]

Eagles

2006-08-16T15:24:21Z

65.189.189.148:

The '''Eagles''' were immense flying birds that were sentient, and could speak.

The eagles are said in [[The Silmarillion]] to have been "devised" by [[Manwë]] Súlimo, leader of the [[Valar]], and were often called '''Eagles of Manwë'''. They were sent from [[Valinor]] to Middle-earth to keep an eye on the exiled [[Ñoldor]], and on their foe the evil Vala [[Morgoth]].

For a time the Lord of the Eagles, [[Thorondor]], kept his eyries at the top of [[Thangorodrim]], the volcano above [[Angband]] itself. While they lived there, Thorondor helped [[Fingon]] rescue [[Maedhros]]. Thorondor's folk later removed their eyries to the [[Crissaegrim]], part of the [[Echoriath]] or ''Encircling Mountains'' about [[Gondolin]]. There they were friends of [[Turgon]], and kept spies off the mountains.

Thorondor wounded Morgoth in the face after Morgoth's battle with [[Fingolfin]], and he carried Fingolfin's corpse to the Echoriath, where he was buried by Fingon.

The Eagles fought alongside the army of the Valar, [[Elves]] and Edain during the [[War of Wrath]] at the end of the [[First Age]].

In the [[Second Age]], a pair of Eagles had an eyrie in the King's House in [[Armenelos]], the capital of Númenor until the Kings became hostile to the Valar. The Eagles also watched the peak of Mount [[Meneltarma]], and three Eagles would always appear when someone climbed to the summit.

In the [[Third Age]], Thorondor's descendants [[Gwaihir]] and [[Landroval]] lived in an eyrie to the east of the [[Misty Mountains]] in [[Wilderland]].

In ''The Hobbit,'' no eagles are identified by name. Only the title [[Lord of the Eagles]] distinguishes the eagle leader from other eagles in this story. (The text adds that he was given the title [[King of All Birds]] at a later date.) Many readers assume, without hard evidence, that it was Gwaihir and Landroval who rescued [[Thorin Oakenshield]] and company from a band of [[Wargs]] and [[Goblins]], flying them to the river [[Anduin]], and later assisted in the [[Battle of Five Armies]] fought near [[Erebor]], the Lonely Mountain.

Before and during the [[War of the Ring]], one of Gwaihir's people rescued [[Gandalf]] the Grey from the top of [[Isengard]], and others of his people rescued [[Frodo Baggins]] and [[Samwise Gamgee]] from [[Mount Doom]] in [[Mordor]] after the [[One Ring]] had been destroyed.

Tolkien's painting of an eagle on a crag appears in some editions of ''The Hobbit''. According to [[Christopher Tolkien]], the author based this picture on a painting by [[Archibald Thorburn]] of an immature Golden Eagle, which Christopher found for him in ''The Birds of the British Isles'' by [[T.A. Coward]]. However, Tolkien's use of this model does not necessarily mean that his birds were ordinary Golden Eagles. In his last writings Tolkien speculated that these great Eagles were actually [[Maiar]] in bird-shape, as he felt it unlikely [[Ilúvatar]] would grant [[Fëa and hröa|feär]] to animals. If this is true, then [[Roäc|Roäc the Raven]] and the Thrush, who appear in ''The Hobbit'', must also be Maiar or other spirits in animal form (and possibly even [[Beorn]], who sometimes takes the form of a bear).

[[Category:Races]]
[[Category:Birds]]

Crebain

2006-08-16T15:24:07Z

65.189.189.148:

[[Image:Daniel Govar - Crebain.jpg|thumb|''Crebain'' by [[Daniel Govar]].]]
'''Crebain''' were large black birds of crow-kind, native to the lands that bordered the southern [[Misty Mountains]], [[Dunland]] to the west and [[Fangorn]] to the east. They seemed to possess at least some level of intelligence, and were apparently used as spies by [[Saruman]] during the [[War of the Ring]].

[[Category:Animals]]
[[Category:Birds]]