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Lord of the Rings Species
LOTR Species
This page contains all of the Lord of the Rings (LOTR) species that you can join as and what they're like. There may be limits on how many people can join for certain species (if I didn't there would be WAY too many of one species or another). Make sure you read the creature discriptions for at least the species of characters you will join as.
Balrogs
Balrogs, or elf-banes, are demons of the ancient world, created by Morgoth, the first Dark Lord. They have cat-like heads, the horns of a ram, and a man-like body with bat-like wings and an arrowed tail. They are creatures of fire and shadow, and inevitably are enveloped in flame. Balrogs can form their own weapons with their fiery bodies. They live in deep caves and dark places. Balrogs have no outstanding magical powers but they can fly. Because Balrogs are too powerful for lots of people to join as them, there will be a limit to two Balrogs.
Cave Trolls
Cave trolls are not the cleverest of beasts. Remember that: those of you who join as trolls are not allowed to think well. They are not very nimble, and can't dodge things easily, though their backs are well-armored enough that very few things can pierce it, and, as for the front side, remember that what DOES get through your skin won't necessarily hurt you! Trolls are tough! Remember, though, you can't tromp around in the daylight, or you'll be turned to stone! There is a limit to 5 cave trolls.
Dragons
Dragons... Most everyone knows about dragons. If you want more specific info on the do's and don'ts of Dragon behavior or what they look like, just email me and ask. Got it? Dragons are usually black, red, green, or blue. Those with two horns are boys, three horns are girls, no horns are silly young dragons who haven't decided, and the ones who have four horns are freaks of nature. There can only be four dragons.
Dwarves
Dwarves are short and rather stout beings, the latter both in stature and nature. With bushy beards and bushy hair, there's not much to say about the dwarves. They are quite greedy for rocks, metals, and gems, and love to spend time with their possessions. Not all dwarves are greedy. You can also be a warrior dwarf.
Eagles
Eagles are quite wise creatures. Just remember; they cannot handle weapons. They live in the Old Forest, and of course they can travel to other lands. Eagles can only speak in the Elvish tongues: not Human, Black Speech, or anything else. I am putting a limit to six eagles.
Elves
Elves are the "Firstborn of Ilœvatar". They were around before humans. They look very similar to humans, but they are taller and have pointed ears. They wear their hair long, and the higher classes probably had bangs (based on hairstyles of ancient British, Anglo-Saxon, and Celtic people: you don't need to follow it). Some of their most common weapons are bows and arrows or spears. They also often use battle-knives (small, one-bladed), dirks (small, double-edged), and/or swords (normal length). Elves, though immortal, do not have magic, in a strict sense. They do have similar powers, based mainly on their attunement with nature. For the most part, these powers focus on prophesy, or farseeing, and not on anything weird, like raising people into the air or deflecting arrows, or whatever. Those sorts of things are to be limited to the wizards, please.
Goblins, Orcs, and the Uruk-hai
All Goblin-kind are the descendents of tortured and mutilated Elves. They were created by the first Dark Lord, Morgoth.
The smallest, Goblins, are ugly creatures. They live mainly in the Misty Mountains and the Mines of Moria, for they despise sunlight, which makes them weak and nautious. Their skin is green. They are a cunning species, with many engineers making all sorts of devises: never pretty, but always effective, for Goblins have good minds for mechanics. Interestingly, they have developed a way to climb up the stone walls of their habitat.
Orcs look much like their smaller cousins, the Goblins. They live in the mountains like their smaller relatives, and also in Mordor and Udžn, for they too are repelled by light. Their skin is green, but also looks slimey. They are smart, but do not play with mechanics, preferring fights, due to their huge strength. They speak a broken version of the Black Speech. Their voices are very rough, much like an animal which is more used to growling than speaking words.
Uruk-hai are larger and stonger than even the Orcs. They are a cross-breed between Orcs, Goblins, and possible Humans. They are fouler than the Orcs are if possible. They served Saruman, and not Sauron, leading to a fierce feud between them and the Orcs, PARTICULARLY the Luzburg Orcs from the land near Mordor. They speak a language different from the Orcs, so Orcs and Uruks communicate in Westron (the same language as the people from the Shire and Bree speak). Uruk-hai do not feel any fear or pain, further seperating them from their mountain-kin. They also do not weaken in the Sun, though they hate it with astounding viciousness. They do not tire easily either. Their skin, stench, and mannerisms are easily enough to make a human either puke run desperately away. They are, however, easily controlled by powerful evil beings, such as evil Wizards. They feel strongly bound to the late Wizard, Saruman, who first created their species.
Hobbits
Hobbits are very small, charming beings with simple, country lives. They are anywhere from two to four feet tall. They have thick, curly hair. This hair can also be found on their feet, which are large and unshod, for they are very tough, and very little can hurt them. Hobbits are quick to recover from injuries.
They used to all live in little holes, called Smials, but now only the richest and poorest Hobbits do. The others live in pleasent little houses with thatched roofs, and (with an exception to a few houses in Buckland) one-storied, for Hobbits are terribly afraid of hights. Hobbits are hardly known in the lands outside their world, but there are still tales of Halflings, as they are called by most species. Hobbits have a quaint way of life. For instance, they give all their guests presents on their birthdays. Hobbits are used to being well-fed, for at their homeland, the Shire, in Eriador, there are many meals each day, not to mention the even more numerous snacks in between.
Humans
Humans ... hmmm... You SHOULD know all about humans' looks and behavior! Humans live in Dunland Rohan and Gondor. The black-haired people from Dunland are not well-known in the books. The only word of their language that we know is *forgoil*, which means straw-heads; a spiteful nickname of theirs for their blonde neighbors in Rohan, who they used to hate bitterly for old wars over territory. The people of Rohan are blondes and horse-riders. The people from Gondor are generally dark-haired; for they descendents of the Men of Nœmenor. The Nœmenoreans sometimes used to live over two hundred years, but no one in Gondor lives that long anymore, unless you're talking their King, Aragorn. There are also the Lake-Men and the Men of Dale, from "The Hobbit". Also, there are strange Wild-Men in the one forest, and a few dark-skinned Men from south of what we know of Middle-Earth. These warriors are not well liked by the people of Gondor and Rohan, for they came up from their homelands to serve in Sauron's army. No one knows whether they are evil, misguided, or were misrepresented (meaning that there were lots of good people, but only bad people came up to serve Sauron, giving them all a bad impression). Choose whichever you want.
Ring Wraiths
Ring Wraiths, or Nazgul, were once Human kings. They were given the Nine Rings of the Mortal Men, and passed through them into the shadow world. Now they're invisible, except for their eyes and crowns. Their clothes, forboding black cloaks, are visible, however. Their mounts are either red-eyed, black horses or strange, flying beasts. Wraiths are unable to be injured with normal swords, while their own evil blades can cause others to turn into Wraiths enslaved to them as they are enslaved to Sauron. Their only real weakness is that the swords of Nœmenor can undo their ability to not be harmed by normal swords. Because of this, the High King of ancient Men (the Witch-King, Angmar; the Captain of the Wraiths) was slain by a Hobbit and a lady of Rohan. Since no one knows what actually befell the other Wraiths when Sauron was destroyed, there may be 8 Wraiths.
Wizards
Wizards are the only beings that have real magic. Their were only 5 Wizards in the world, and these are immortal. These Wizards are all in the Council of the Wise. They are ranked by power using colors. The highest in rank is White, followed by Grey. The least of the colors is Brown. In between these, it has been said that the ranks are silver, then gold; purple, and blue; or purple and yellow. Since Saruman lost his all of powers, and Gandalf departed from Middle-Earth, that leaves 3 Wizards left. For this reason, THERE MAY ONLY BE 3 WIZARDS: NOT 5. Their ranks are White, Grey, and Brown. The Brown Wizard's name is Radugast. The others' names, their players may invent.
Wolves and Wargs
You should all know very well what wolves are, as they exist today. There's nothing very special to the wolves in the Lord of the Rings. Therefore, no one can join as a Wolf, but they CAN be mentioned in adventures. They are not to be defined as "Good" or "Bad", for they are totally non-sentient.
The Wargs, however, are different. They are a sort of "spirit-wolf", or a wildly bizzarre hybrid canine species. They live in the land near the Misty Mountains, and can speak Black Speech and the Goblin Tongue (broken Black Speech). They cannot speak in any other languages. Obviously, they are evil.
Ravens, Crows, and Crebain
Ravens are good creatures. They can speak Westron and Dwarvish. Dwarves can also talk to them, but only Dwarvish royalty and "lore-masters" so to speak.
Crows are evil and foreboding, but they are non-sentient. They are a bit like vultures in behavior.
Crebain are sentient Crows. They are VERY evil. They come from Dunland, and were used by Saruman as spies.
Thrushes
Thrushes play a similar role to Lake-Men and the people of Dale as Ravens do to the Dwarves. They are good creatures. They cannot speak any language, but the Lake-Mean and royalty of Dale can sometimes understand them, though it is less common nowadays.
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