![]() Tolkien generally refers specifically to the Nazgûl riding the creature, using terms like "Nazgûl" or "Ringwraiths", with the creature itself either ignored or included into the package. Help! help!'.īut there is no indication that "hell-hawks" is the proper name for the creatures either. Ah! there one of the foul things is stooping on him. That will be the Captain: he can master both beasts and men. No, one is still up, but he rides back to the others. Look! the men are thrown they are running on foot. But how can he win to the Gate, if these foul hell-hawks have other weapons than fear? But look! They hold on. This is from the scene where the Nazgûl are chasing Faramir and Gandalf rides to his aid and chases them off with white light: The character Beregond seems to refer to the Nazgûl's winged creatures as "hell-hawks" although he could be referring to the Nazgûl themselves or even to the Nazgûl/fell beast combo. The land of the Beornings was aflame a cloud was over Moria smoke rose on the borders of Lórien. Under the boughs of Mirkwood there was a deadly strife of Elf and Men and fell beasts. The Misty Mountains were crawling like anthills: orcs were issuing out of a thousand holes. Toward the end of The Fellowship of the Ring, the term "fell beasts" seems to be used to describe general nasty monsters that Frodo sees assaulting Elves and Men in Mirkwood in a vision.īut everywhere he looked he saw the signs of war. There's no particular reason to believe that "fell beast" is being used as a proper name in this context, but most people seem to use it in this way because they aren't really named elsewhere. ![]() ![]() And afterwards when all was over men returned and made a fire there and burned the carcase of the beast but for Snowmane they dug a grave and set up a stone upon which was carved in the tongues of Gondor and the Mark: So they laid them apart from their foes and the fell beast and set spears about them. But the men of the king’s household they could not yet bring from the field for seven of the king’s knights had fallen there, and Déorwine their chief was among them. Men now raised the king, and laying cloaks upon spear-truncheons they made shift to bear him away towards the City and others lifted Éowyn gently up and bore her after him. But Éomer leaped from the saddle, and grief and dismay fell upon him as he came to the king's side and stood there in silence.Īnd again immediately after Théoden's death: They looked in wonder at the carcase of the fell beast that lay there: and their steeds would not go near. The carcass of one of these animals (the one ridden by the Witch-king of Angmar) is twice referred to as a "fell beast" in The Return of the King.īut thereupon Éomer rode up in haste, and with him came the knights of the household that still lived and had now mastered their horses. ![]()
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