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I'm rather concerned about the possibility of a flock of rampaging Second Age Saurionic killer sheep, but there you go
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No, Rumil! Everyone knows that sheep go to Valinor, goats go to the Void.
I'm guessing, like everything else in the book, Tolkien based his choice of animals on Northern European mythology. I know swans, ravens, dragons, horses were all powerful animal spirits. (Didn't Odin ride an eight-legged horse?)
I notice the owl didn't rate a mention in Tolkien's work - good or evil - though it is popular in Celtic myth.