Favorite animals in Tolkien

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Thread open to discussing our favorite animals in Tolkien.

My personal favorites were Shadowfax and Huron. Talk about a faithful animal. Huron was magnificent.

Summary of Huron from the encyclopedia.
The Hound of Valinor; faithful companion to Celegorm son of Fëanor until his mistreatment of Lúthien in Nargothrond, after which he helped Lúthien and Beren in the Quest of the Silmaril. He defeated Sauron at the gates of Tol-in-Gaurhoth, and slew Carcharoth in the Hunting of the Wolf.

Two of my favorites would have to be Smaug and Shadowfax....Great thread Fuscia

Smaug was awesome. The best dragon ever. I want to do a stained glass dragon and call him Smaug.

hmm...Smaug...
and that random fox that saw the hobbit in the woods..
but seriously...the other would be Glaurung..i like dragons, and those 2 were awsome
and in my copy of the Silmarillion its Huan, not huron...

Argh, thats what I get for not reading alot of Tolkiens work...So I have to ask which book is Glauring in?...I have a love for dragons too...hehe

And Fusica I have checked out your stained glass work...Very nice! I would love to see one with Smaug

Thanks Misty. I drew up a dragon pattern tonight and I am working on my Smaug. The colors might be wrong. I am going with the glass that I have on hand. Shadow will have to tell me what colors Smaug should really be.

Glaurung is in the Silmarillion. Look to the story of Turin Turambar.

Gwaihir the wind lord and Smaug the Golden

Thanks White Tiger. I had looked at so many pictures of Smaug, and some of them were green. I guess I will have to do him in golden and amber colors.

yeah that sounds cool. you might want to use a picture of a chinese dragon as a template of sorts. since thats how tolkien seemed to envision the main appearence of his dragons.

I used a body type like the Alan Lee and Tolkien Smaugs. I also looked at the work of one of the best glass designers in the world. I think you guys will like it. It should be done after Easter if my hands start feeling better.

You could also try looking at this site

www.lordotrings.com

and enter the flash site, go to art and media and into artwork and look at the artist called John Howe

I thought the Fell Beasts were interesting animals. They aren't really my favorites, just the the animals I am most curious about.

The fell beast: "The great shadow descended like a falling cloud. And behold! it wa a winged creature: if bird, the greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, oustayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed. Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it a gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck."
such a wonderfully lovely and happy creature don't you think?

I want a pet fell beast.

I thought the Wolves of Isenguard were pretty cool....I don't remember them being in the LOTR books perhaps I'm mistaken though

I think in the book they were referred to as "Wargs", Misty.

Actually they were not in the book the attack of the 'wolves of Isengard' was just a movie thing.

Wargs were in the book at a different point but I can't remember where.

Oh, I always thought that the wolves of Isengard were Wargs! Huh! I guess you learn something new everyday!

So Peter Jackson came up with then name Wolves of Isenguard? Do you know what book the 'wargs' were in Shadow? I'd like to read about them, I heard Tolkien never did much with them though

The wolves of Isengard is in the book, but they are mentioned as just raiding villages and whatnot. And yes, the are Wargs. Saruman tells that orc to send out his "warg riders."

as for wargs, they are mentioned chiefly in the hobbit, but they also appear in the fellowship.

Thanks Shadow! I thought maybe the appeared briefly somewhere in LOTR...I'll have to go back and reread some of there parts I always had a hard time picture them though until the movie came out