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Fell BeastIn Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, the fell beast was a gigantic flying pterosaur-like creature on which the Witch-king, Lord of the Nazgl, rode during the Battle of the Pelennor Fields. In book V, chapter 6 "The Battle of the Pelennor Fields" in The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien describes it thus: - "... it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was ..."
The fell beast attacked and eventually killed Snowmane, King Thoden's horse. The horse fell on Thoden and crushed him. Dernhelm (who revealed herself as owyn) defended the dying Thoden, and challenged and killed the beast. Tolkien actually only used the name "fell beast" as a descriptor and not an actual name. However, since this creature lacked any real name, "fell beast" is often used to refer to it. In Peter Jackson's trilogy of movies based on The Lord of the Rings, all the Nazgl are shown as riding fell beasts after their horses were lost at the Ford of Bruinen. They are depicted as dragon-like and serpentine creatures.
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