9. Cool New Monsters
In case you’re tired of orcs and dragons,Beren and Lúthien brings us some exciting new creatures with the universe of Middle-earth, including vampires and werewolves. Tragically, the renditions of the story that have been published so far don’t give us much detail on what these monsters really resemble. Vampires are clearly bat-like and can fly, yet haven’t been described past that. And every one of the werewolves in the story show up as gigantic wolves, so it’s not clear if they can change into men like the werewolves of our mythology. In any case, Tolkien’s ballad “The Lay of Leithian” suggests that werewolves and vampires detest each other, as is customary.
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