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Old 04-02-2002, 09:32 PM   #1
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Pipe EVIL creatures

this is just like any other normal topic. here we go.

What is the name of the creature known as the watcher in the water [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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Old 04-03-2002, 12:04 AM   #2
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The Kraken?
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Old 04-03-2002, 12:13 AM   #3
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Old 04-03-2002, 07:00 PM   #4
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there are many ways of finding out. kraken is correct.
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Old 04-03-2002, 07:03 PM   #5
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Hi Mordor 136. How are ya? Go check out my threads. Stop sitting around and go. Go. GO!!!!!!!! I say, GO!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 04-03-2002, 07:26 PM   #6
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Old 04-03-2002, 10:41 PM   #7
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mordor136 - Where did you get that information? I can't find that anywhere in Professor Tolkien's writings.
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i dont remember where i read it but kraken is correct. try not to be toooo picky and relax
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Old 04-05-2002, 11:48 AM   #9
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I agree with Bruce on this one. I think "Kraken" is just a term that others have labeled it.

Kraken is the legendary sea monster that we now know of today as the Giant Squid. So if we may call it Kraken then couldn't we call it a "Dianoga"? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Dianoga is a muddy-colored squid-like creature which thrives in dank environments, patiently waiting for morsels big enough to satisfy its appetite. The seven-tentacled creature ensnares its prey and attempts to drag it into its hungry mouth.

The Watcher in the Water is just another mysterious creature in Tolkiens writing.

But I do remember seeing an old thread on the issue, and if I remember correctly Turambar was in it?
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sorry if my info was incorrect everybody but i really did read that somewhere
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Old 06-06-2002, 03:30 PM   #11
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Just in case anybody ever looks at this thread again, I just thought I'd say that the watcher in the water is called a kraken in the "Tolkien Bestiary"
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Old 06-07-2002, 05:08 PM   #12
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I have never read Tolkien Bestiary, but I know it isn't written by J.R.R. Tolkien but by David Day. According to Micheal Martinez who is a respected Eldar to the Barrowdowns(or so I hear)...

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Old 03-08-2003, 12:18 PM   #13
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How about we drop this and ask a new question? mordor, what do you think?
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Since no-one has said anything for a while I'll ask a question to resurect this thread.
What were the Balrogs originally?
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spirits of fire from the north. they were ainur, like melian.
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well done. Please continue. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
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I have sadly been absent from this forum for a while and was shocked to see one my threads up here so thanks Silmarien for resurecting my thread
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Can someone ask a question now? [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]
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thanks Beren, sorry i kept everyone waiting.

what type of dragon was scatha?
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Scatha is a Long-worm. From the Grey Mountains of the North.
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Old 04-07-2003, 01:04 PM   #23
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Oops, I did it again. (I really honestly didn't mean that to come out like Britney Spears song) But continue, please, you're right pio!

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They live, "Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves . . ." gnawing at the world.

What are they called?
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Um...(here's a go without the books)..."nameless creatures" or something like that. I remember the passage, just not the phrasing. *calls brother on cell phone to find the specifics*
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Close enough to get the brass ring, Nuranar!

"Far, far below the deepest delvings of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things."

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Who dwelt in Dungortheb, where "horror and madness walked"?
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Would that be the offspring of Ungoliant?
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Right on the money. Your go!
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"Later in the year, having gathered his strength and completed his design, Morgoth at last loosed his assault upon Nargothrond.

*_________* the Urulókë passed over the Anfauglith..."

Who is *_________*?
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"Glaurung the Urulókë [or fire-drake] passed over the Anfauglith..."

My list of resources grows thin...this is hard without the books!
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I suddenly flashed on the scene from FOTR where Elrond says to Gandalf, "Our list of allies grows thin . . ."

But I digress - your are correct, carry on!
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I suddenly flashed on the scene from FOTR where Elrond says to Gandalf, "Our list of allies grows thin . . ."
It is also in my mind.

"Unlike the older race of the Twilight they could endure the Sun, so long as the will of Sauron held sway over them."

Who - or what - are "they"?
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I want to say Trolls (like the one Pippin got in RoTK), but I'm really not positive.
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Could it be Goblins? I think they could withstand the sun, maybe...
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Right direction...think more specifically.
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Nay, fair lady. But that kind of specificity is good. (Is that a word?)
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Specificity is indeed a word. And here is a little more of it: [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

"But at the end of the Third Age a troll-race not before seen appeared in southern Mirkwood and in the mountain borders of Mordor. Olog-hai they were called in the Black Speech. That Sauron bred them none doubted, though from what stock was not known. Some held that they were not Trolls but giant Orcs; but the Olog-hai were in fashion of body and mind quite unlike even the largest of Orc-kind, whom they far surpassed in size and power. Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race, strong, agile, fierce and cunning, but harder than stone. Unlike the older race of the Twilight they could endure the Sun... They spoke little, and the only tongue they knew was the Black Speech of Barad-dur." The Return of the King, by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Whoop for specificity!

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