Warg
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title:
Warg
text:
In the philologist and fantasy author J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth fiction, a warg is a particularly large and evil kind of wolf that could be ridden by orcs. He derived the name and characteristics of his wargs by combining meanings and myths from Old Norse and Old English. In Norse mythology, a vargr is a wolf, especially the wolf Fenrir that destroyed the god Odin in the battle of Ragnarök, and the wolves Sköll and Hati, Fenrir's children, who perpetually chase the Sun and Moon. In Old Eng
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wiki
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description:
Wolf in fantasy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warg
date created:
2002-06-19T07:24:55Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T13:09:51Z
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