Re: CHAT: RPGs (was Re: Wargs)

Sally Caves scripsit:

> Can anyone tell me what a "warg" is in contemporary horror?
Tolkien uses this term for the unusually intelligent wolves, allied
to Sauron, that both Bilbo and Frodo confront on their way over the
Misty Mountains.  They are not werewolves as such, but at least some
of them may be not quite what they seem: after a night battle in the
L.R., no wolf corpses are found the next morning.

> What are the Wolfen?  Are they wargs?
There was a werewolf movie of that name, but that's all I know about it.

> A werewolf was more than just a man wolf-like,
Hey, if "man wolf" was a good enough compound for our Anglo-Saxon predecessors,
it should be good enough for us!

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