Demons of shadow and flame, fallen Maiar in Morgoth's service
Named: Gothmog
In the service of Morgoth
Portal
14 kinds · 17 named beingsCreatures
The kinds of beast and being that the books describe as a kind — and the named individuals among them. The named ones are characters: their entries live with the characters, and that is where these tiles lead.
the evil spirits that dwell in the mounds of Tyrn Gorthad
Black scout-crows in flocks
Winged, featherless mounts of the Nazgûl
In the service of Nazgûl
Speaking eagles of Manwë
Named: Thorondor
Tree-beings between Ent and tree
Wild oxen of the far fields of Rhûn — the horn of Gondor came from one
Giant southern war-beast
Long-lived birds of Erebor, allies of Durin's Folk
Birds of the Mountain whose speech the Men of Dale once understood
Huge beings turned by sunlight
Fierce wolves of the Misty Mountains
creatures of the Last Desert, named once and never seen
Wolf-shapes housing imprisoned spirits, Sauron's beasts
Named: Carcharoth · Draugluin
In the service of Sauron
3 of these 14 kinds are recorded as serving someone — Morgoth, Nazgûl, Sauron. For the rest the books record no service; that is what the register says, not a claim that they were free.
Kinds filed as peoples
Dragons, the Mearas and Ungoliant's brood are peoples in the register, because the books treat them as kindreds with names of their own. To a reader they are creatures — so they stand here too, with their members.
Named beings
Beings with a name of their own are characters, not kinds. They stand here too, and each tile leads to its entry among the characters. Those whose kind the register records stand on the card of that kind above; here are the ones the books give no kind for.
Greatest of Morgoth's winged dragons
Entry filed under Character
Sam's pack pony, left behind at Moria
Entry filed under Character
Father of Dragons, first of Morgoth's fire-drakes
Entry filed under Character
Hound of Valinor, bane of Carcharoth
Entry filed under Character
Oromë's mount
Entry filed under Character
Horse of Fingolfin
Entry filed under Character
the great dragon of Ered Mithrin, slain by Fram
Entry filed under Character
Lord of the Mearas, Gandalf's steed
Entry filed under Character
Last child of Ungoliant, the great spider of Cirith Ungol
Entry filed under Character
Last of the great dragons, dread of Erebor and Dale
Entry filed under Character
Sauron's bat-shaped envoy out of Tol-in-Gaurhoth
Entry filed under Character
Primeval spider of the Unlight, destroyer of the Two Trees
Entry filed under Character
The many-armed guardian of the pool before Moria's West-gate
Entry filed under Character
Where they live
Only where the books say so. Where a creature's entry names a place, its name stands on the map in terracotta beside that place and leads to the entry. Kinds without a recorded home appear nowhere on the map — the register does not guess where something lives.
Beleriand
First Age. Names from the published map of Beleriand. The land was broken and drowned at the end of the Age.
The map scrolls sideways.
- Land land, realm
- town, haven
- stronghold, tower
- mountains, pass
- river
- forest
- island
- place, landmark
- a creature lives here
North-western Middle-earth
Third Age. Names from the fold-out map in The Lord of the Rings.
The map scrolls sideways.
- Land land, realm
- town, haven
- stronghold, tower
- mountains, pass
- river
- forest
- place, landmark
- a creature lives here
2 of these have no symbol yet: the text gives no shape for them, and an invented outline would be a claim about how they look.