New: freefolkAll contenthive-129948hive-196917krhive-180932zzanhive-150122hive-166405steemhive-183959photographyhive-185836hive-144064hive-183397hive-101145hive-188619uncommonlabhive-184714hive-145157hive-103599hive-139150hive-193637bitcoinlifehive-180301hive-109690TrendingNewHotLikerslotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Skin Changers: Origin (p3)Gandalf thought the Beornings might have originated in the Misty Mountains. During the Third Age they guarded the Ford of Carrock from the Orcs and Wargs (in The Lord of The Rings, Gloin complained…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Skin Changers: Origin (p2)The Beornings were well known for their honey-cakes, which they likely made in their bee farms and sold openly to others, at least until the return of Sauron, for then the Beornings no longer…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Skin Changers: OriginThe origins of Beornings are not known, save that they dwelt in the Vales of Anduin between Mirkwood and the Great River in the late Third Age.[1] Unlike other Men, they had the ability to change…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Huorns: Origin (p2)In The Two Towers, the Huorns are witnessed to march to Isengard with the Ents. After Isengard is harrowed of its orcs, most of the Huorns chased and killed them after the Battle of the Hornburg.…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Huorns: History (p2)The Huorns mostly stood as dark trees in the deepest forests, gnarled and unmoving, yet watchful. When aroused in wrath they moved swiftly as if wrapped in shadows, falling on foes with deadly and…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe HuornsHuorns were a living race of ancient, slow-moving trees, whom the Ents cared for and tended to in the Second and Third Ages. In Middle-earth, they were known to dwell in the Old Forest and in…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Skin-changersSkin-changers, also known as Shape-changers, were Men and rare individuals with the ability to assume the form and abilities of an animal. History In the Third Age, Beorn (who dwelt in the…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Petty Dwarves: OriginsThe Petty-dwarves were created from remnant ideas based on the Nauglath in Tolkien's earliest writings in the The Book of Lost Tales. They were more or less created to explain the difference between…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Petty Dwarves: History (p3)By the time of the War of the Jewels, after the Return of the Ñoldor, the Petty-dwarves had nearly died out. By the fifth Century of the First Age, the last remnant of their people were Mîm and his…lotr-wiki (61)in chess • 3 years agoThe Petty Dwarves: History (p2)The Sindar, not yet acquainted with Dwarves, thought the Petty-dwarves were animals, and hunted them. Not until the Dwarves of the Blue Mountains established contact with the Sindar did the latter…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Petty Dwarves: HistoryThe Petty-dwarves were Dwarves of several houses, who had been exiled for reasons unknown in very ancient times during the Peace of Arda. They were the first to cross the Blue Mountains in the First…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Petty DwarvesThe Petty-dwarves (named in Sindarin Noegyth Nibin or Nibin-Noeg, part of an older term Bar-en-Nibin-noeg) were a diminutive race of Dwarves that lived in Beleriand in Middle-earth during the First…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: Earlier versionsIn earlier texts, Tolkien once envisioned the Great Eagles as bird-shaped Maiar. However, he had remembered that he abandoned the concept of the Children of the Valar, and that Gwaihir and Landroval…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: Third Age (p3)Before and during the War of the Ring, Gwaihir rescued Gandalf the Grey from the top of Isengard—having been dispatched by Radagast—and again from Zirakzigil. The Eagles aided troops of King Elessar…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: Third Age (p2)In The Hobbit, no eagles were identified by name. Only the title "Lord of the Eagles" distinguished the eagle leader from other eagles in this story. Many readers assume that it was Gwaihir and…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: Third AgeIn the Third Age, Thorondor's descendants Gwaihir and Landroval lived in an eyrie to the east of the Misty Mountains in Wilderland. These Eagles helped the Elves of Rivendell and Radagast in…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: Second AgeIn the Second Age, a pair of Eagles had an eyrie in the King's House in Armenelos, the capital of Númenor, until the reign of Tar-Ancalimon when the Kings became hostile to the Valar. The Eagles…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: First Age (p2)Thorondor wounded Morgoth in the face after Morgoth's battle with Fingolfin, and carried Fingolfin's corpse to the Echoriath, where Turgon buried him. The Great Eagles fought alongside the army of…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe Eagles: First AgeThe Great Eagles were the messengers and spies of Manwë, and possessed the ability to see through all physical matter except for the blackness of Morgoth's evil pits. Morgoth first discovered the…lotr-wiki (61)in lotr • 3 years agoThe great EaglesThe Great Eagles were beings of Arda said to have been "devised" by Manwë Súlimo, leader of the Valar, and were often called the Eagles of Manwë. They were sent from Valinor to Middle-earth to keep…
