The remaining fellbeasts take part in the Battle of the Morannon, where they are pitted against the Great Eagles. The Lord of the Nazgul then orders his mount to feed on the king, only for Éowyn to behead the monster, killing its master soon after. When the Witch-king of Angmar attacks Théoden during the battle of the Pelennor Fields, he uses his fellbeast to maul the king's horse, Snowmane, who is sent toppling on top of Théoden. When Sauron orders his forces to attack Minas Tirith, the Nazgûl take their fellbeasts and snatch men off the ramparts, also using them to destroy the city's trebuchets and prevent the Gondorians from mounting adequate defenses. When the fellbeasts attack the fleeing soldiers, they inflict heavy casualties until Gandalf drives them away with a blinding flash of light. During the Siege of Osgiliath in The Return of the King, the fellbeasts are shown being able to snatch up multiple Gondorian soldiers in their talons before dropping them to their deaths. However, they are additionally far more formidable in the films. In the films created by Peter Jackson and Weta Workshop, the fellbeasts retain their roots, which remain much the same as in the novels, being flying steeds given to the Nazgûl by Sauron. Other Media Films The Lord of the Rings trilogy However, both he and his ride were driven away by an arrow fired from Legolas with his great bow of Lórien, resulting the beast to let out "a harsh croaking scream" as they vanished into the gloom of the Eastern shore.įrodo, Sam and Gollum encountered a fellbeast while passing through the Dead Marshes, wherein Gollum referred to the beasts as "wraiths on wings". One of the Ringwraiths then came close in locating the Fellowship of the Ring while they camping at the western shore of the river Anduin, at which they describe his steed as "a great winged creature, blacker than the pits in the night". their heads appear more like a snake's and they don't have beaks like in the novel, leading to the common misconception that they are dragons in the books Tolkien definitely meant a pterosaur-like creature.Īfter losing their horses, the regrouped Nazgul were given fellbeasts as the new steed, which give them more ground in their search for One Ring. Tolkien describes them as creatures that were holdovers from an older world before Sauron began breeding them for war.įor the movie adaptations, fell beasts are depicted as more akin to wyverns (dragon-like and serpentine creatures that have two legs and two wings) i.e. Fellbeasts resembled dragons but were large winged creatures that were bred by the Dark Lord Sauron for war purposes. Its pinions were in between horned fingers and its body gave off a foul stench. The fell beasts were described as large, winged creatures without feathers, similar enough to dragons that they could almost be mistaken for one.
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