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The Lord of the Rings
Part II. The Two Towers
A Guide to Tolkien's Novel
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Creatures
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Arod: small light restive and fiery horse lended to
Legolas by the Rohirrim
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Gwaihir the Windlord: king of the
Great Eagles; friend
of Gandalf
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Hasufel: great dark grey horse of Rohan lended to Aragorn
by the Rohirrim
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Orcs of the Red Eye: monsters under the command of Sauron, suffer greatly in sunlight;
their usual weapon is a curved scimitar
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Orcs of the White Hand: the fighting Uruk-hai, 'burárum' (to Ents), servants of Saruman, who is suspected to
have crossed the races of Orcs and Men, in order to obtain powerful warriors able to stand sunlight; they use short
broad-bladed swords and an 's' (for Saruman) elf-rune on their iron helms
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Shelob: or the Watcher, monstruous ancient evil
malicious spirit in the
shape of a gigantic spider; a terrible undefeated creature which has survived through the ages and finally
settled in Mordor, though its offspring live mostly in
Mirkwood.
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Shadowfax: chief of the Mearas, for his
ancestor was Eorl's horse, king of the horses of Rohan, fastest than lightning or any other horse,
he will only obey to Gandalf, whom he has taken in great friendship.
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