The Warg and Warg Rider Appreciation Thread

[Formendacil]

While recently delving through some obscure First Age manuscripts, I came across the mention of a "were-Warg". What with all the popularity of the Werewolf games of late, I decided to do more research on this subject, and present my findings here.

"Werewolves" are, in fact, a phenomenon which is related to the great Wargs of yore. The modern perception of them as rabid biters is a flaw of their true purpose.

There are, in fact, not werewolves in real life. No, this popular image is a distortion and a mixing of WereWargs and werelyenas.

The werelyenas more greatly resemble werewolves of the two. Werelyenas are people who have been bitten by another werelyena (usually rabid), thus making them a werelyena. To be a werelyena is the greatest misfortune that may befall a man (or Elf!) without killing him, for once a month he is forced to transform into the most hideous of nature's beasts.

A WereWarg, on the other hand, is a very different phenomenom. A WereWarg is a Man, Elf, Hobbit, or Dwarf who has been selected by the Wargs for a very rare honour. A WereWarg is a Man (etc) who has been given the power by the Wargs to become one of them at times.

There are several great figures of history that appear to have been WereWargs. Among these are Finrod Felagund- who as a result of his Warg-given translation abilities was able to befriend Men. Another famous WereWarg was Elendil son of Amandil. It was clearly the fact that he was a WereWarg that saved him from Sauron whilst in Numenor, and helped him to defeat Sauron and overthrow him. Alas that Isildur was not a WereWarg as well...

The third known WereWarg lived in the late Third Age, and was, in fact, Samwise Gamgee- who resisted the temptation of the Ring of his own will, and stoutly survived all the dangers of the road, while supporting the Ringbearer.

Sadly, there are also some known cases of werelyenas. Eol the Dark Elf was bitten as a child, and his evil disposition and ill effect on his son were clearly derived from this. Also a known werelyena was Khamul the Easterling- who accepted his Ring of Power in hopes of escaping his curse. The Ring was unsuccessful of course, and all that happened was that at times Sauron had a Black Lyena instead of a Black Rider.

Other cases are referred to in the text, but not given by name. Possibly, while I am in Europe, I shall have the opportunity to research some of their texts and learn more- possibly about WereWargs, or maybe another facet of Warglore.

~Warg Scholar -

Formendacil~

[SamwiseGamgee]

Well I think we can all aspire to something now: the glory of a WereWarg!

[SamwiseGamgee]

Over a most enjoyable lunch today I was discussing with a very close friend Wargs. What a great way to sypend time, eh. But there's more (though I should add this post could end at the first full stop and be more than worthwhile) to this story. We stumbled upon the subject of pronunciation of that greatest of words: Warg. My friend and I both agreed that our pronunciation was as it is written, as in lard. However, my friend's mum and my fiancee both choose to pronounce the word 'worg'. My question, as you may have anticipated, is how you guys pronounce the great word? Pray tell.

[Orominuialwen]

My brother and I pronounce it as you do, rather like "lard" and with a hard G at the end.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I concur. But can you think of any other words beginning in 'War...' and being pronounced in such a way? It's war or warm or warble. But Warg seems to be one of a kind.

[SamwiseGamgee]

In Monty Python yhe Hungarian guy said 'I want you' in the same way one would pronounce Warg. Does that count? Meh, forget it! Even I'll admit that's pretty shakey ground.

Oh, and by the way guys, let's hear it for the friend I had lunch with- for sitting there and talking Wargs. A big cheer for Ciro Orlando, eh?

[Valesse]

Just a side note before I actually say anything which might make a lick of sense pretaining to the current discussion: When I first came to this forum I read the thread title as "The Warg and Warg Rider Application Thread" and thought "YES!!" vehemently. The End.

It really depends on how you break up the word in your mind, I think. To some people it could be W-arg (who tend to pronounce it closer to the word "rag" for some reason... oddly enough thats me.) and to others War-g ("worg")... then theres the Wa-rg qroup which... Well I don't claim to know how that would even sound .. Wah-er-gh? or Wah-er-gee? : |