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| {{quote|Tell me what you want done, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the [[East]] of East and fight the wild Were-worms in the Last Desert.|[[Bilbo Baggins]], from ''[[The Hobbit]]'', "[[An Unexpected Party]]"}}
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| '''Were-worms''' were creatures of an unknown kind, possibly mythical and presumably related to [[Dragons]], that were said to dwell in the [[Last Desert]].
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| [[J.R.R. Tolkien|Tolkien]] only ever mentions Were-worms once, in the quote given above, so we know almost nothing about them. We cannot even be certain that they actually existed — the [[Hobbits]] had a rich folklore full of fantastic creatures, and Were-worms quite possibly fall into that category.
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| Though the name "were-worm" suggests a shapeshifting creature like the werewolf of modern-day folktales, that might not be the case in Tolkien's [[legendarium]]. In [[Middle-earth]], "[[Werewolves]]", such as [[Draugluin]], were horrific, supernatural wolves of enormous size, but they did not shapechage. Thus Were-worms, if they did exist, could be a bizarre type of Dragon, though this must remain in the realm of speculation.
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