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'''Foxes''' are dog-like carnivores of woodland and farmland, distinctive for their red-orange coats and their eerie plaintive cries. The most famous of all the foxes in [[Middle-earth]] appears early in [[The Lord of the Rings]], where a dog-fox is puzzled at finding [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]] and [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]] asleep in a fir-wood on the first night of their journey from [[Hobbiton]].
[[Image:Red Fox.png|thumb|''Red Fox'' portrayed in ''[[Middle-earth Role Playing|MERP]]'']]
'''Foxes''' were [[dogs|dog]]-like carnivores of woodland and farmland, distinctive for their red-orange coats and their eerie plaintive cries. A fox became puzzled at finding [[Frodo Baggins|Frodo]], [[Samwise Gamgee|Sam]], and [[Peregrin Took|Pippin]] asleep in a [[Firs|fir-wood]] on the first night of their journey from [[Hobbiton]].<ref>{{FR|I3}}</ref> Another fox was encountered by [[Aragorn|Strider]] and the hobbits as they hiked through the [[Chetwood]] after leaving [[Bree]].<ref>{{FR|I11}}</ref>


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The [[Quenya]] word for "fox" is ''[[rusco]]'' ([[Sindarin]] has ''rusc'').<ref>{{PM|XI}}, p. 353</ref><ref>{{VT|41a}}, p. 10</ref>
 
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Red Fox portrayed in MERP

Foxes were dog-like carnivores of woodland and farmland, distinctive for their red-orange coats and their eerie plaintive cries. A fox became puzzled at finding Frodo, Sam, and Pippin asleep in a fir-wood on the first night of their journey from Hobbiton.[1] Another fox was encountered by Strider and the hobbits as they hiked through the Chetwood after leaving Bree.[2]

The Quenya word for "fox" is rusco (Sindarin has rusc).[3][4]

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