#Wolf riders in lord of the rings full#

The Gundabad wargs make fewer appearances in the The Desolation of Smaug, when Bolg and a small force of warg riders trail the company to Dale, and The Battle of the Five Armies, where Azog rides the Warg Matriarch on the march to Erebor before instructing Bolg to retrieve their reinforcements in Gundabad. Azog later rides the Warg Matriarch to personally hunt Thorin, who manages to elude him with the aid of both the Great Eagles at the Misty Mountains and Beorn. Azog later feeds Yazneg to the wargs at the orc camp at Amon SГ»l. Though Radagast offers to distract their pursuers by riding on his sled pulled by Rhosgobel Rabbits, the warg riders see the Company and chase after them before finding themselves ambushed by the elves of Rivendell after the Company flees into the Hidden Pass. Gandalf once stated in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that the Gundabad wargs are faster than any other warg breed.Дuring the events of An Unexpected Journey, a warg pack under Warg riders led by Yazneg and Fimbul stalk The Company of Thorin II Oakenshield before making their presence known in the trollshaws. Among these wargs is a larger one with a white pelt that Azog rides, revealed in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey guide book to be the Warg Matriarch of the Gunbabad Wargs. Throughout the events of The Hobbit Trilogy, a pack of wargs are in the service of Azog, who had survived the skirmish at Moria. The Gunbabad wargs, wolf-like with grey fur, are bred by the orcs of Mount Gundabad. Powerful haunches and a dewclaw allowed the warg to climb. Coloration and pattern of the fur doesn't seem to vary throughout the breed.

Not all damage could have come from the men and beasts it was attacking wargs were ferocious and could quickly turn on other members of their pack as well as their handlers. Apart from its ruff, the warg had short dense fur, which would have kept injury from tooth and claw to a minimum. This arrangement gave greatest sensory range while keeping its vulnerable areas protected, and the long neck gives it reach, flexibility and power when biting into flesh.

#Wolf riders in lord of the rings full#

The head has a short muzzle full of huge fangs, small eyes set on the sides of the head and ears at the back of the skull.

An eastern warg measures about 5 feet at the shoulder, and could be up to eight feet in length from snout to hindquarters. The eastern Wargs seen in the Lord of the Rings trilogy are noticeably more hyena-like in appearance. The second are the more wolf-like Gundabad wargs whose appearance is closer to the original version of the story. The first are a hyena-like breed used by Isengard and Mordor orcs that roamed in western Rhovanion and the wilds to the east of the Misty Mountains. In Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's works, two breeds are introduced. Eventually goblins showed up and lit the trees the dwarves were hiding in, until the eagles came to rescue them. However the guards left under the trees did not go away. The wolves that had caught fire fled into the forest and had set it alight in several places, since it was high summer, and on this eastern side of the mountains there had been little rain for some time. Gandalf then used his magic to light up pinecones and hurl them against the wargs until he drove them out. The wargs, thinking that the dwarves are allies of the woodmen, surrounded the glade and didn't let them descend. Gandalf, seeing the pack coming, suggested to climb the trees and Dori helped Bilbo in the nick of time. As a pack of wargs approached east of the Misty Mountains to meet them, Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, and Thorin and Company were escaping the goblins. 2941, the wargs appeared once to meet the goblins and organize a raid to the nearby villages, in order to drive the woodmen out and capture some slaves.