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Fauna/Bestiary/Creatures of Arda (not including the Free Peoples)
Alphabetical list
- Animals
- Bears
- Bees
- Birds: Quenya aiwe; Sindarin: aew; Gnomish aigli ("bird" (especially larger)");[1] bilin or bilinc ("a small bird, especially sparrow")[1]
- Butterflies
- Cats
- Conches: Quenya hyalma ("conch")
- Cows
- Dogs
- Doves: Quenya, Old Noldorin kukua ("dove")[2][3]
- Dragonflies: Gnomish sithagong ("dragonfly") or sithaling ("(fly snake) dragonfly")[1]
- Eagles
- Elephants
- Fish
- Fowl: Gnomish porog ("fowl (domestic)"); porogwil or uil ("hen")[1]
- Foxes
- Gulls
- Hares: Qenya lapatte ("a hare"); Gnomish laboth ("a hare")[1]
- Horses
- Hounds
- Kingfishers
- Lions
- Lice: Gnomish gwef or gwevin ("louse")[1]
- Mice: Gnomish nig or nigla ("a mouse")[1]
- Moths: Gnomish fufril[1]
- Nightingales
- Pigs: Gnomish hunc ("pig"); hugin ("young pig")[1]
- Rats
- Sheep
- Snakes
- Sparrows: Gnomish bilin or bilinc ("a small bird, especially sparrow")[1]
- Swifts: Gnomish
dwindi, lindwil, glindwil ("a swift (bird)")[1] - Swans
- 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]
Uncertain
- Flies (various meanings in English): Gnomish sitha ("fly")[note 1][1]
- Moles (various meanings in English): Qenya noldare, nolpa ("a mole"); Gnomish dolfa, dolmeg ("a mole"), meg ("any small animal, especially mole")[1]
Notes
- ↑ The word sitha likely refers to the insect, cf. sithagong, "dragonfly".
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 1.13 1.14 1.15 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
