Fictional flying species Middle-earth animals

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1 fictional flying species

1.1 crebain
1.2 elven-birds
1.3 fell beasts
1.4 great eagles
1.5 kirinki





fictional flying species
crebain

crebain (singular: craban) large species of crow inhabited land of dunland during third age. used servants , spies various evil powers, notably saruman. during war of ring, flock of crebain searched ring-bearer. crebain crows regular plural form of sindarin *craban crow, word (while unattested) seems have been adopted tolkien indo-european languages, particularly pre-germanic form *krabn-, whence proto-germanic *hrabnaz, descended both old high german hraban , english raven.


elven-birds

a species of song-birds native tol eressëa. birds mated life, , described grey, golden beaks , feet. pair of elven-birds gifted erendis on wedding aldarion, crown-prince of númenor. later dismissed birds when marriage broke down.


fell beasts

flying creatures used nazgûl steeds during later parts of war of ring. tolkien did not use phrase proper name them (it description; fell means fierce, awful, terrible ), absent other name, called fell beasts . tolkien describes 1 thus:



...if bird, greater other birds... ...neither quill nor feather did bear, , vast pinions webs of hide between horned fingers... creature of older world maybe was...

a few paragraphs later said attack beak , claw .


great eagles

a race of eagles of outstanding size, believed have been sent middle-earth , númenor manwë. tolkien proposed variously had been either maiar or highly intelligent animals.


kirinki

one of many species of birds found in númenor not known in middle-earth. kirinki said have been smaller wrens, scarlet feathers , piping voices on edge of human hearing .








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