This horn eventually came to Boromir and was cloven when he fell during the War of the Ring. It became an heirloom of the Stewards of Gondor. Vorondil (Steward to King Eärnil II of Gondor, T.A. 1998-2029) hunted these beasts, and fashioned a horn for blowing from one of them. White oxen that lived near the inland Sea of Rhûn, called thus by the men of Gondor, who associated them with the Vala Oromë or Araw, "the huntsman of the Valar". They often assisted the Dwarves of Erebor by providing messengers.įictional mammal species Kine of Araw Their main rookery was on Ravenhill on a spur of the Mountain. They were also extremely long-lived: Roäc was aged 153 at the time of The Hobbit. Carc lived in the days of King Thrór, when he and his mate nested above the guard-chamber in Ravenhill, while Roäc appears in The Hobbit in T.A. 2788. Two ravens are named: Carc and his son Roäc. The ravens of Erebor (the Lonely Mountain) were a type of intelligent raven that could converse with humans. In the Third Age, Thorondor's descendants Gwaihir and Landroval lived in an eyrie to the east of the Misty Mountains in Wilderland. The Eagles fought alongside the army of the Valar, Elves and Edain during the War of Wrath at the end of the First Age. Tolkien proposed variously that they had been either Maiar or just highly intelligent animals. Great Eagles Ī race of eagles of outstanding size that were sentient and could speak, believed to have been sent to Middle-earth and Númenor by Manwë. She later dismissed the birds when their marriage broke down. A pair of Elven-birds was gifted to Erendis on her wedding to Aldarion, the crown-prince of Númenor. The birds mated for life, and were described as "grey, with golden beaks and feet". Crebain "crows" would be the regular plural form of Sindarin *craban "crow," a word which (while unattested) seems to have been adopted by Tolkien from Indo-European languages, particularly a pre-Germanic form *krabn-, whence the proto-Germanic *hrabnaz, from which descended both Old High German hraban and English raven.Ī species of songbirds native to Tol Eressëa. During the War of the Ring, a flock of crebain searched for the Ring-bearer. They were often used as servants and spies by various evil powers, notably Saruman. 10.2.5.1 In The Father Christmas Lettersįictional bird species Crebain Ĭrebain (singular: craban) were a large species of crow that inhabited the land of Dunland during the Third Age.
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