Index:Fauna of Arda
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Fauna of Arda is a list of animals in Arda.
- Note: Individual animals are not included.
Alphabetical list
- Ants
- Apes
- Badgers
- Bats
- Bears
- Bees
- Birds: Quenya aiwe; Sindarin: aew; Gnomish aigli ("bird" (especially larger)");[1] bilin or bilinc ("a small bird, especially sparrow")[1]
- Boars
- Butterflies
- Cats
- Conches: Quenya hyalma ("conch")
- Cows
- Crebain
- Crows
- Deer
- Dogs
- Doves: Quenya, Old Noldorin kukua ("dove")[2][3]
- Dragonflies: Gnomish sithagong ("dragonfly") or sithaling ("(fly snake) dragonfly")[1]
- Dumbledors
- Eagles
- Elephants
- Fish
- Flies
- Fowl: Gnomish porog ("fowl (domestic)"); porogwil or uil ("hen")[1]
- Foxes
- Glowworms
- Gorcrows
- Gulls
- Hares: Qenya lapatte ("a hare"); Gnomish laboth ("a hare")[1]
- Hawks
- Horses
- Hounds
- Hummerhorns
- Kine of Araw
- Kingfishers
- Kirinki
- Lions
- Lice: Gnomish gwef or gwevin ("louse")[1]
- Moles
- Mice: Gnomish nig or nigla ("a mouse")[1]
- Moths
- Neekerbreekers
- Nightingales
- Oliphaunts
- Pards
- Pigs: Gnomish hunc ("pig"); hugin ("young pig")[1]
- Rabbits
- Rats
- Ravens
- Serpents
- Sheep
- Snails
- Snakes
- Sparrows: Gnomish bilin or bilinc ("a small bird, especially sparrow")[1]
- Spiders
- Squirrels
- Swifts: Gnomish
dwindi, lindwil, glindwil ("a swift (bird)")[1] - Swans
- Thrushes
- Weevils: Gnomish gwembel (or gweml, gwemli)[1]
- Whales: Gnomish uimoth ("(sheep of the waves", a whale")[1]
- Wolves
- Woodpeckers: Quenya tambaro ("woodpecker");[2] Noldorin tafr or tavor ("woodpecker")[2]
- Worms
- Zebras: Gnomish raibrog ("zebra"; fem. raibros)[1]
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 J.R.R. Tolkien, "I-Lam na-Ngoldathon: The Grammar and Lexicon of the Gnomish Tongue", in Parma Eldalamberon XI (edited by Christopher Gilson, Arden R. Smith, and Patrick H. Wynne)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Lost Road and Other Writings, Part Three: "The Etymologies"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Addenda and Corrigenda to the Etymologies — Part One" (edited by Carl F. Hostetter and Patrick H. Wynne), in Vinyar Tengwar, Number 45, November 2003
