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Originally Posted by Pervinca Took
PERFECTLY correct!
I think Tolkien probably meant to imply crows that eat gore. (I'm sure I looked up 'gorcrows' once to see if it's an actual species).
They might or might not be sentinels, but I think they look like sentinels in Pauline Baynes's illustration in 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil,' (two of them, one each side of the title).
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Not an actual species, but according to a number of dictionaries, an obscure dialect word for "carrion crow". Tolkien did like his obscure dialect words.