[The Saucepan Man]

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> hyenas on steriods, <HR></BLOCKQUOTE><P> Make that suicidal hyenas on steroids. Oh, I just can't resist having a pop at PJ's "Wargs". They were the biggest disappointment of the film for me. When I saw them in the trailer, I was really excited, because they have always captured my imagination, ever since reading the Hobbit. They should have been huge, evil-looking ferocious wolves ... oh, what a missed opportunity.<P>And yes, there is a reference to the battle at the crossing of the Isen in <I>The Road to Isengard</I>. Although I don't think that it is made explicit that wolf-riders were involved in the battle, this is suggested by Gandalf:<P> <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR> yet I feared that wolf-riders and plunderers might ride nonetheless to Meduseld, while it was undefended. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>