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There are many strange creatures that dwell in Middle Earth some are harmless enough, but there are some that strike fear into the hearts of many brave warrior yet alone a Hobbit of the shire. Here is just a small sample of some of the more dangerous evil beasts that roam the dark lands.

• 1. Fell Beast
  Winged steeds of the Nazgul. The Fell Beasts were huge, larger than any bird, and their wingspans were great. Their wings were made of hide stretched between bones like horned fingers and they had no feathers. They had beaks and long necks. The Fell Beasts smelled foul and they shrieked. They were nutured and fed fell meats by Sauron and became steeds for his most dreadful servants, the Nazgul.

When Frodo, Sam and Gollum emerged from the Dead Marshes on the night of March 2, they heard a piercing cry and saw a Fell Beast pass overhead and then return to Mordor. Gollum was terrified and afterwards Sam sensed a change for the worse in Gollum. Later, on March 5, Sam saw four more of the Fell Beasts circling.

That same day, across the Anduin, Pippin looked into the palantir while Gandalf slept. Shortly afterwards, a Fell Beast flew over the camp at Dol Baran. Gandalf took Pippin up onto Shadowfax and rode swiftly to Minas Tirith. Gandalf explained that the Fell Beast could not have flown 200 leagues from Mordor in reponse to Pippin's action, and said that the Nazgul had probably been sent earlier to determine what Saruman was doing.

Pippin and Beregond felt a shadow pass across the sun as they stood on the walls of Minas Tirith on March 9. The next day Faramir and his men were returning to Minas Tirith pursued by five Nazgul on Fell Beasts. Gandalf rode out to meet them and sent a shaft of white light from his staff to hit one of the Fell Beasts. The Nazgul flew away and Faramir entered the City.

On March 14, as Frodo and Sam escaped from the Tower of Cirith Ungol, the Watchers at the gate let out a wail, and a Winged Nazgul appeared and landed on the battlements. Frodo and Sam escaped by jumping from a cliff into a thicket.

At the Battle of the Pelennor Fields on March 15, the Witch-king of Angmar descended onto the field on a Fell Beast. The horses of the Rohirrim fled in terror. Merry and Eowyn were thrown from Windfola. Theoden's mount Snowmane was pierced by a dart and fell on his master. The Fell Beast dug its claws into Snowmane's body. It attacked Eowyn when she confronted the Witch-king, and she beheaded the Fell Beast. Then she and Merry defeated the Witch-king. After the battle the carcase of the Beast was burned.

When Frodo claimed the Ring on March 25, the Winged Nazgul raced toward Mount Doom but they were too late. The Ring was destroyed and the mountain erupted in fire. The Nazgul and their steeds were engulfed in flame.

2. Shelob the Great Spider
Evil entity in spider form. Shelob's body was vast and bloated and her wrinkled hide was thick and tough with no weak spots. Her upper body was black with markings and her belly was a luminous white and gave off a terrible stench. Her legs had knobbed joints that bent above her back. Each leg was covered with stiff hairs and ended in a claw. Her neck was a short stalk and on her head were great horns and two clusters of multi-faceted eyes. She secreted venom through a beak around her mouth.
Shelob was a creature of great malice whose only thought was to devour and destroy.

Little she knew of or cared for towers, or rings, or anything devised by mind or hand, who only desired death for all others, mind and body, and for herself a glut of life, alone, swollen till the mountains could no longer hold her up and the darkness could not contain her.
The Two Towers: "Shelob's Lair," p. 333
Shelob was the offspring of Ungoliant. In ancient times, Ungoliant helped Melkor destroy the Two Trees of Valinor and she then went to Middle-earth where she spawned numerous Great Spiders that lived in the Mountains of Terror in Beleriand. At the end of the Third Age, Shelob was the only one of Ungoliant's offspring left in the world.
Shelob had numerous offspring herself, including the Great Spiders of Mirkwood. They were lesser creatures than herself though still terrible. Shelob sometimes mated with her own offspring, and afterwards she devoured them.

It is not known how Shelob came to the southeast of Middle-earth. Sometime before the year 1000 of the Second Age, she made her lair on the western border of Mordor in the Mountains of Shadow high in the pass that came to be called Cirith Ungol. Shelob's Lair was called Torech Ungol. It was a long tunnel with many branches and secret exits. Inside it was pitch dark and there was an unbearable stench.

At first, Shelob fed on Men and Elves who ventured near her lair. As Sauron's power increased and Minas Ithil became the Dead City of Minas Morgul, her diet consisted mainly of Orcs. She stung her victims in the neck, injecting them with a poison that made them unconscious and limp, and she wrapped them in her silken webs and hung them in her lair. Then she drank their warm blood and feasted on their living flesh.

Sauron was aware that Shelob lived in Cirith Ungol on the borders of his realm. Her presence guarded the pass more effectively than any garrison, though Shelob served only herself and was not allied with Sauron. The Dark Lord sometimes sent prisoners that he had no further use for into her lair to provide her with sport and food.

In 2980, Shelob encountered Gollum, a scrawny, unappetizing creature who grovelled before her. Many years later, on March 11, 3019, Gollum returned to Shelob's Lair and promised to bring her sweet meat. The next day, Frodo Baggins entered her lair. Shelob tracked him through the tunnels and was about to attack him when Frodo brought out the Phial of Galadriel and cried, "Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!" ("Behold, Earendil, brightest of the stars!" - TTT, p. 329)

Shelob was not daunted at first, for she had heard that cry from the Elves long ago. But then Frodo turned and advanced on her with his sword Sting in one hand and in the other was the Phial blazing brighter than anything she had ever seen. Shelob felt the first stirrings of doubt and she retreated.

Shelob did not give up, however. As the Hobbit escaped from her lair on March 13, Shelob emerged from one of her secret exits. She descended swiftly on Frodo and stung him in the neck and wrapped his body from shoulder to ankle in her web. Before she could make off with her prey, she was attacked by an adversary more furious and determined than any she had ever encountered.

It was Sam Gamgee, who rushed to Frodo's defense and hewed off one of Shelob's claws and put out one of her eyes before she could react. He then sliced her underbelly, but though poison bubbled from the gash it was not enough to pierce her thick hide. Shelob raised her huge belly and then bore down, intending to crush Sam beneath her. But Sam held Sting aloft, and Shelob skewered herself on the blade. She shuddered and convulsed in anguish and was prepared to attack again when Sam brought out the Phial and invoked the name Elbereth, one of the Valar.

"A Elbereth Gilthoniel
o menel palan-diriel,
le nallon sí di'nguruthos!
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!"
TTT, p. 339 "O Elbereth Starkindler
from heaven gazing far,
to thee I cry now beneath the shadow of death.
O look towards me, Everwhite."
Ardalambion

Sam's indomitable spirit caused the Phial to kindle with a brilliant white light. The pain was intolerable to Shelob; her vision was seared and her mind was in agony. She crawled back into her lair oozing a trail of green-yellow slime. Shelob's ultimate fate is not known. She may have died from the wounds inflicted by Sam, or she may have spent long years in pain and misery healing herself until she was strong enough to wreak terror once more.

Frodo survived but he never fully recovered from Shelob's sting. He became ill on the anniversary of the attack each year for as long he remained in Middle-earth.

 

3. Trolls.

Large creatures of great strength frequently in the service of the Enemy. Trolls were humanoid in shape but monstrous in appearance. They were much taller and broader than Men. They had scaly skin and large flat feet with no toes, and their blood was black.
Trolls were generally rather stupid. They did not build or create anything. Trolls hoarded riches that they stole, and they often ate the people they robbed. Trolls had no language of their own, though some Stone-trolls in Eriador were able to speak the Common Speech and Sauron taught Trolls in his service the Black Speech.

 

Trolls were incredibly strong and powerful and difficult to kill. Their main weakness was that most Trolls turned to stone when exposed to sunlight.

Trolls dwelled in Mordor, southern Mirkwood, the Misty Mountains including Moria, and in the Ettenmoors in Eriador, where the woods called the Trollshaws were located.

 

Trolls lived in a variety of habitats. There were Cave-trolls, Hill-trolls, and Mountain-trolls. There may even have been Snow-trolls: Helm Hammerhand was compared to one, though no other record of such a creature exists. Stone-trolls may have been a specific breed of Troll, or this may have been a general term that applied to all Trolls that turned to stone in sunlight.

Trolls may in fact have been made from stone originally. It is said that Trolls were made by Morgoth, possibly in mockery of the Ents. Tolkien was uncertain of their origin:

 

"I am not sure about Trolls. I think they are mere 'counterfeits', and hence ... they return to mere stone images when not in the dark. But there are other sorts of Trolls beside these rather ridiculous, if brutal, Stone-trolls, for which other origins are suggested."
The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Letter #153

By "other sorts of Trolls," Tolkien apparently meant the Olog-hai, a superior breed of Troll created by Sauron at the end of the Third Age. It is not known what method or stock Sauron used to breed this new kind of Troll. In an unpublished note, in what appears to be a reference to the Olog-hai, Tolkien suggested that "It would seem evident that they were corruptions of primitive human types."
The Olog-hai could withstand direct sunlight and they were more cunning than other Trolls. They were large and powerful and their skins were as hard as stone. They understood the Black Speech, though they rarely spoke. They lived near Sauron's stronghold of Dol Guldur in southern Mirkwood and in the mountains of Mordor. The Olog-hai were entirely under Sauron's command and acted solely in his service.

As Sauron's power grew, Trolls became more of a menace in Middle-earth. Aragorn's grandfather Arador was killed by Hill-trolls in the Ettenmoors in 2930.

 

On his adventure in 2941, Bilbo Baggins met three Trolls named Tom, Bert, and William Huggins. These Stone-trolls roamed the Trollshaws and they had a cave there where they kept the riches they acquired, including Glamdring, Orcrist, and Sting. It is not known where or from whom the Trolls obtained these swords.

Tom, Bert, and William spoke the Common Speech, though rather poorly. They ate mutton and passing travellers when they could get them. They were pleased to capture Bilbo and the thirteen Dwarves, but Gandalf tricked them into arguing over how to cook them until the sun rose and the three Trolls turned to stone. They remained there like statues; Frodo Baggins and his companions saw them 77 years later while travelling to Rivendell.

 

The Fellowship encountered live Trolls several times during their quest as well. In Moria, they were attacked by a Cave-troll, which Frodo stabbed in the foot.

Mountain-trolls wielded the great battering ram Grond at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields and destroyed the gates of Minas Tirith.

A great company of Hill-trolls from Gorgoroth fought at the Battle of the Morannon. Since the battle took place during the day, these Hill-trolls may have been of the Olog-hai strain. The Hill-trolls struck down many Men of Gondor with their heavy hammers. The Troll-chief wounded Beregond and would have bitten his throat, but Pippin Took stabbed the Troll with his sword of Westernesse, which he later called "Troll's bane." After the battle, Gimli found Pippin alive under the Troll's heavy carcass.

After Sauron's downfall, the Trolls in his service became mindless and directionless without his evil will to guide them. Some slew themselves and others fled and hid. At the beginning of the Fourth Age, the Men of Gondor and Rohan continued to hunt down Sauron's servants, and it is likely that in time Trolls ceased to pose a threat to the peoples of Middle-earth.

• 4. Wargs
• The Wargs or Wild Wolves are a race of fictional wolf creatures in J.R.R. Tolkien's books about Middle-earth. They are almost always in league with the Orcs or Goblins whom they permitted to ride on their backs into battle. The Wargs speak a rudimentary language of their own. It is probable that they are descended from Draugluin's werewolves of the First Age.

  In The Hobbit, the Wargs appear twice, once in chasing Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and the dwarves just east of the Misty Mountains, and once at the Battle of Five Armies. In The Lord of the Rings, they are most prominently mentioned in the middle of The Fellowship of the Ring, where a band of Wargs, unaccompanied by Orcs, attack the Fellowship in Hollin.

  Warg, like many words used in Tolkien's works, is an actual archaic Old English word meaning a large wolf. It has cognates in other Germanic languages such as Old Norse, where it is usually spelt with a V (i.e. Varg), and is the modern Swedish word for wolf. As the books were supposedly translated rather than written, 'Warg' would not have been the word used in Westron but an equivalent thereof.

  As is the case with many of Tolkien's inventions, Wargs or transparent variants appear in other works of fantasy, including Dungeons & Dragons, sometimes under the name "worg". To be fair, a monster wolf is not the most original of designs.

  In Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, wargs appear to be more like a "hyena-bear-wolf hybrid" rather than wolves, in an effort to destinguish them from regular wolves by presenting them as some sort of distant cousin. However, it should be noted that Tolkien never actually described Wargs beyond stating they were demonic wolves.

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