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10-20-2008, 02:08 PM | #1 |
Pile O'Bones
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were wolves
ok- hears a question for people that are far wiser than me in the ways of LoTR... I have done some research on the topic and have found very little on it. I have an idea for an RPG character, and I was wondering if lycanthropy actually existed in the JRR tolken world. I think that it does, but perhaps not in the way I am thinking/hoping/expecting....
Can any one provide the answers that I seek??
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10-20-2008, 02:25 PM | #2 |
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Lycanthropy as it is understood now - people shifting shape at fullmoon - did not exist in Middle-earth. However, there were great wolves inhabited by spirits that were of the same origin as the valar and maiar, only lesser. There were only a few of them, though, and they all lived in the First Age serving Melkor (and Sauron) - if you have read the Silmarillion, you probably remember Carcharoth and Draugluin and Tol-in-Gaurhoth. So, I'm afraid a werewolf would be pretty unorthodox of an RPG character.
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10-20-2008, 03:10 PM | #3 |
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Nope, no lycanthropes, or as Aggie said, none that bear the silver bullet, howlin' at the moon, Lon Chaney Jr. hirsuteness, ah-oooo Werewolves of London-type persona.
Oh, and no Bela Lugosi-type vampirish Nosferatus either (in case you were wondering). How about a nice undead Barrow-wight?
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10-20-2008, 05:07 PM | #4 |
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Still, it is interesting that the theme of a sort of
"shape shifting" exists in all three ages, Sauron in the Second Age and Beorn in The Third, plus, of course, Luthien, Beren, and Sauron in The First. And exactly what is to be made of the wargs attacking The Fellowship between Caradhras and Moria and their bodies vanishing?
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10-20-2008, 05:31 PM | #5 |
Pile O'Bones
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well that is NOT was I was hoping to hear- tho I should have assumed that it was so- I was thinking more of a shape shifting spiritual protector type tho- I have read the similain but I was younger and prolly didn't understand the vast majority of it- it does pose the question that was just asked... I know not the answer- perhaps someone wiser than myself can answer it.....
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Or maybe the crebain came and ate them.
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10-21-2008, 05:36 AM | #7 | |
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