What is it?
 

On another thread here, where the Name/Race/Whatever generator was being used, I put several things in just for fun, and got some interesting answers. Trouble is, I don't know WHAT these things are that the generator said my entries were! [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Can someone tell me?

• Mumak (with a little "thingy" above the u)
• Meara
• Olog-Hai
• Bounder
• Haradim

Thanks a bunch! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Isn't a "Meara" a very special and powerful type of horse? Shadowfax was a meara, wasn't he?...correct me if I'm wrong...

But that's all I got, sorry.

Mumak- an Oliphaunt

Meara- I may be wrong, but I'm pretty sure It's a horse of the same breed as Shadowfax.

Haradrim- someone from Harad

Bounder- Someone who protects the borders of the shire? maybe?

Thank you, all of those sound feasable to me... [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Samwise,

Mumaks: War Oliphaunts of the Southrons - men of the South who served Sauron in the War of the Ring (I think that this would include the Haradrim - see below)

Meara: I don't know exactly, but they are some kind of wonder horse, and Shadowfax was one (as was Champion [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] ).

Olog-Hai: Uber-trolls bred for war (as Uruk-Hai were uber-orcs). I think they were at the battle before the Black Gate. There is a great article on whether they were subject to the same "turn-to-stone-in-sunlight" rule as your common or garden troll in the Articles section of this site.

Bounder: A sort of ad hoc militia in the Shire employed to "beat the bound", ie patrol the borders.

Haradim: The men of Harad (and Far Harad?) to the South, who served Sauron in the War of the Ring.

Hope that helps. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Bounders were hobbits whose job it was to patrol the boundaries of the Shire.

The Olog-hai were bred in Mordor by Sauron, they were an attempt to create immensely strong creatures that were intelligent enough to be used as troops. Ordinary Trolls were unsuitable - strong but stupid - and so, according to rumour, they were interbred with the variags, a cruel mannish race. The result were the Olog-hai of Mordor; cunnig and immune to the effects of sunlight and smaller than other Trolls, they were sometimes mistaken for huge orcs by enemy soldiers.

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Tar-Palantir ]

Wow! Thank you, all. Hm. One of the name generator things said I was a scholarly
Meara. So, then, a horse of Shadowfax's caliber that read or studied? [img]smilies/confused.gif[/img]

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Samwise ]