Fell Beasts

Also known as fell beast

creature

Huge winged steeds like great carrion birds; dark silhouettes with vast pinions; ridden by Nazgul; keen eyesight.

Category: creature
First appears: Book 2 · Ch. 14
Books: 2

The fell beasts first appear in The Two Towers as the Nazgûl’s aerial mounts, described as vast, carrion-bird silhouettes with keen eyesight. By The Return of the King they have grown in stature and menace, now portrayed as creatures larger than eagles whose despair-inducing cries can shatter the morale of entire armies. Their evolution from shadowy silhouettes to fully realized, terror-spreading monsters mirrors the escalating stakes of the War of the Ring and the Nazgûl’s increasingly overt assaults on the Free Peoples.

Evolution

BOOK 2The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings
Huge winged steeds like great carrion birds; dark silhouettes with vast pinions; ridden by Nazgul; keen eyesight.
BOOK 3The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
Huge birdlike creatures greater than eagles, resembling horrible carrion-fowl, used as aerial mounts by the Nazgûl, capable of producing despair-inducing cries