The Warg and Warg Rider Appreciation Thread

[Kath]

Then perhaps any celebration of a new year might be a time of rest from such pursuits. A time just to celebrate and marvel at life rather than attempting to understand the origins or the reasons for it.

Forgive me I am not arguing with you Eomer, a distinguished Warg scholar indeed, I just wonder whether perhaps such a tradition might have started with these creatures, rather than passed them by.

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

Ask not for forgiveness, dearest Kath! Questioning everything is one of the things that separates the Wargs from the others.

I was just thinking: did the Elves celebrate the New Year? Because, living for so long, it would be almost like Men celebrating every new Hour or whatever. Fair enough, annual celebrations can be special to Men because we might get only 60 of them, or thereabouts. But Elves would be doing it millions of times. It is possibly different for Wargs if they are not bound within time.

[Nilpaurion Felagund]

It's true, Eomer. Wargs are so great that they transcend everything. Time, reality and space are all but nothing to a Warg. (SawmwiseGamgee)

Concur. As I once quoted:

[Mauan: ]We are not concerned with history, with the past ages of Arda; for to our care was given all the notes and chords of the Music, to keep in order until it has reached the fullness of its measure and our Lord comes to cleanse it.

To Wargs every second is new, and they know that every second brings something different from the one before it (thus many say they are the caretakers of the estel, which Eru gave to Men, but I digress from that topic--for now). This is, I believe, is one of the reasons Wargs can endure such unimaginable hatred the world has managed to throw at their most marvellous race. They simply don't care what others have said--they look forward to the hope that all their deeds were for the good of Eä.

[Anguirel]

Oh, race of Wargs, race from across the mountains, race chosen and beloved by Eru as shines forth in very many of your works set apart from all nations by the situation of your thread, as well as by your faith and the honor of the holy Wargdom! To you our discourse is addressed and for you our exhortation is intended. We wish you to know what a grievous cause has led us to Your Thread, what peril threatening you and all the faithful has brought us.

From the confines of Mirth and the thread of The Hobbit Survivor a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought to our ears, namely, that a race from the land of the Shire, an accursed race, a race utterly alienated from davem, a generation forsooth which has not directed its heart and has not entrusted its spirit to Eru, has invaded the lands of Wargs and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country, and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the temples of Wargdom or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion, genealogy.

When they wish to torture Wargs by a base death, they perforate incinerate their noses, and dragging forth the extremity of the tail, bind it to a stake; then with flogging they lead the victim around until the viscera having gushed forth the victim falls prostrate upon the ground.

Others they bind to a post and pierce with arrows. Others they compel to extend their necks and then, attacking them with naked kitchen knives, attempt to cut through the neck with a single blow.

The thread of the Wargs is now dismembered by these Hobbits and deprived of territory so vast in extent that it can not be traversed in a march of two pages. On whom therefore is the labour of avenging these wrongs and of recovering this territory incumbent, if not upon you? You, upon whom above other nations Eomer has conferred remarkable glory in arms, great courage, bodily activity, and strength to humble the less-hairy scalp of those who resist you.

Let the deeds of your ancestors move you and incite your minds to manly achievements; the glory and greatness of High King Fingolfin, and of his associate Eomer, and of your other Wargologists, who have lowered the threads of the unbelievers, and have extended in these lands the territory of the holy Wargdom. Let the holy sepulchre of the Lord Warg Rider, which is possessed by unclean Hobbits, especially incite you, and the holy places which are now treated with ignominy and irreverently polluted with their filthiness. Oh, most valiant Wargs and descendants of invincible ancestors, be not degenerate, but recall the valour of your progenitors.

Go thee to the thread of Hobbit Survivor and save the Chief Warg by voting for Belladonna Took.

(With apologies to the late Pope Urban II)

[SamwiseGamgee]

Why, oh, why?

Why does this great thread go neglected. Yes, we have games of werewolf and the neverending Crazy Captions, but are we forgetting something: Wargs gave us these all!

Please, brethern, do not ignore my plea: devote thyself oncemore to the Warg!

[Eomer of the Rohirrim]

I was thinking along those same lines, Samwise. It has been far too long since we heard tales of Wargs of the Elder Days.

The line at the Last Alliance also had me thinking. Apparently, all things but the Elves were split on that day. Does that mean that Wargs, and yea! even Orcs, fought under Gil-galad and Elendil?

Not much secondary literature written on that one, eh Tolkien scholars!

[Kath]

Alright Eomer I got the hint

I must ask:

Yes, we have games of werewolf and the neverending Crazy Captions, but are we forgetting something: Wargs gave us these all!

Wargs gave us Crazy Captions? The most noble of creatures sat down, found a picture and proceded to create vulgar humour from it? Though I respect you as a scholar, I find myself unable to believe such a thing.

Their creation of the werewolf games on the other hand I can quite understand. A game full of such cunning and bravery is well-suited.