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"The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies," the concluding installment of Peter Jackson'due south beautiful-if-bloated take on J.R.R. Tolkien'due south novel, comes out Wednesday. Though most of Tolkien's tales concern hirsuite hobbits, sexy elves and dull humans duking it out with unsexy forces of evil, the author didn't fail to flesh out his universe with animals, also. In that spirit, here are the summit eight critters of Eye-earth, according to the only person at The Dodo who has been LARPing. As well, with apologies to the moth that saves the wizard Gandalf, these are all animals who made an advent in the books as well as the films.

8. Behemothic eagles(Credit: Giphy)

Real-life critter equivalent: a really big gilded hawkeye
Noble and intelligent, the behemothic eagles rescued Frodo Baggins and Samwise Gamgee, the intrepid hobbit heroes of "The Lord of The Rings," at the pes of Mount Doom. The birds sort of missed a play a trick on past non carrying Frodo and Sam to Mordor in the commencement identify - though, like real aureate eagles, maybe they were too busy defending their immature from bears. Aureate eagles are so strong, in fact, that they're known to chase reindeer, young cattle and fifty-fifty wolves.

7. Fell beasts(Credit: Giphy)

Real-life critter equivalent: a pterodactyl combined with a vulture
These flight critters were tough customers who ruled the airways of Eye-world. (For giant eagle fans, they're the perfect reason for why Sam and Frodo couldn't have flown into Mordor.) From Tolkien'southward description:

It was a winged creature: if bird, so greater than all other birds, and information technology was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it behave, and its vast pinions were equally webs of hibernate between horned fingers; and it stank.

Vultures stink, besides, on account of all the carrion they eat. Simply they're also a valuable cleanup service for a messy natural world.

half-dozen. Shelob(Credit: tumblr)

Existent-life critter equivalent: a actually large spider
The orcs who lived most this spider'southward lair called her "Shelob the Great" and "Her Ladyship," because Shelob was gigantic and voracious. At a foot long, the largest existent-life spider is the Goliath birdeater tarantula, who, despite his name, doesn't often swallow birds.

5. Wargs(Credit: Giphy)

Real-life critter equivalent: a really big wolf
Middle-world's take on the wolf (if wolves grew to the size of cows), wargs were to goblins what mustangs are to cowboys. While trying to mount a existent wolf is maybe not a keen idea, wolves practise carry a bit of weight on their backs, so to speak, as apex predators. Wolves play a circuitous, and at times crucial, part in ecosystems, and scientists and conservationists are nonetheless learning about the extent of wolves' impact on forests.

iv. The Watcher in the Water(Credit: YouTube)

Real-life critter equivalent: a really big octopus
The Watcher in the Water, a betentacled fellow who lives in a dark pool past the Mines of Moria, gets a bad rap as being "evil," only he was probably just hungry when he tried to turn the hobbits into a snack. Octopuses are the Hannibal Lectors of the sea - charming, super smart and occasionally cannibals.

iii. Smaug(Credit: Giphy)

Existent-life critter equivalent: a actually big crocodile plus a bat plus Benedict Cumberbatch
The dragon Smaug, the villain at the end of "The Hobbit," has a lot going for him - the molten breath, the lair full of gold, the rumbly baritone voice. His story doesn't end well, certain, but he never had to worry about fungus, which is killing off huge numbers of bats, or poaching, which is claiming crocodiles for their hide.

2. Shadowfax(Credit: Giphy)

Real-life critter equivalent: a horse
Descendant of Felaróf and Gandalf's steed, the white horse Shadowfax stared down the pterodactyl-vulture beasts (see no. 7) and could outrace the wind. Though Earth'due south horses aren't about to trounce a tropical whirlwind, the fastest horse was clocked at a blistering 44 mph.

1. Mûmakil(Credit: tumblr)

Real-life critter equivalent: an elephant
Mûmakil, besides called oliphaunts, were great hulking critters who hailed from the forests of Far Harad. Like elephants, mûmakil had tusks, trunks and giant ears. And, like elephants, they are the all-time.