12-03-2014, 06:15 AM
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#73
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Shade of Carn Dûm
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Toronto
Posts: 479
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Orphalesion
And apparently Middle Earth has vampires.
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From “Of Beren and Lúthien” in the published Silmarillion (italics mine): Then Sauron yielded himself, and Lúthien took the mastery of the isle and all that was there; and Huan released him. And immediately he took the form of a vampire, great as a dark cloud across the moon, and he fled, dripping blood from his throat upon the trees, and came to Taur-nu-Fuin, and dwelt there, filling it with horror.
Also …
He [Huan] turned therefore at Sauron’s isle, as they ran northward again, and he took thence the ghastly wolf-hame of Draugluin, and the bat-fell of Thuringwethil. She was the messenger of Sauron, and was wont to fly in vampire’s form to Angband; and her great fingered wings were barbed at each joint’s end with an iron claw.
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