>Wargs are wolves, not, for some incomprehensible reason, hyenas.

>>53675581
Why would there be Hyenas in a European-based setting?

>>53675581
That, in your pic, is clearly a cat.

>>53675631
Why would there be elephants in a European-based setting?

>>53675666
Those were oliphants.

>>53675666

Blame the dark-skinned peoples of the Easterlings and Southrons.

>>53675666
They were marched in by the explicitly foreign army.

>>53675666
back in the day there were mastodons in europe.

>>53675696
Back in the day there were hyenas in Europe. Much more recently than mastodons.

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>historical lion distribution

Makes you think

>>53675639
Hyenas are more cat than dog.

>>53675867
I know, but they are not cats.

>>53675631
Hyenas lived in Europe like 10,000 years ago, which would actually fit the pre-historical setting that Middle-earth is supposed to be.

>>53676239
Then why aren't there other prehistoric animals running around?

>>53676239
psudohistorical euromen are afraid of wolves, not hyenas

>>53676362
You mean like giant eagles?

>>53675865
I didn't know India had lions

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>>53676461

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>>53675581
It's almost as if a expert of mythology used what he knows best...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warg

>>53675865
I love the question marked shaped distributions, along with the greek-sea-lions

But seriously is that thin distribution through Egypt because of the Nile? Now I wanna make a super complicated map in my setting of where animals are or aren't

>>53676449
The intelligent eagles that are regularly summoned by a moth and a wizard?

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>>53675581
Hyena wargs look dumb, fuck those movies. Wargs are wolves except about four times the size and more bulky.

>>53675631
Hyenas were in Noah's Ark. Rather, they were in the biblical story as the only thing that wasn't on the ark. Therefore, Europeans who could read were culturally aware of hyenas as base and godless scavengers (that somehow survived a biblical flood).

T. The Bible

>>53676560
Wizards are another prehistoric species.

>>53675681
Only camel fuckers don't prefer dogs

>>53675666
Those were brought from the african equivalent of the setting

What's your point?

>>53675865
Italy had lions for sure
They went extinct during the early roman empire because of too much gladiatorial games

t.-italian

>>53675865
This doesn't even include European or American lions.

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>MFW I realized wargs were real

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrewsarchus#Size

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What do you call a half-wolf/half-warg?

>>53676870
You got a real pretty face

>>53676946
Pretty doggo.

>>53676870
That's an entelodont though, and not even the largest of it's kind I think. They're more like nightmare boars.

>>53676870
See? That looks dumb. Keep wargs fuckhuge wolves and leave whatever the fuck that thing is out or bring it in as its own new thing.

>>53677019
>Spaghetti nigger

I love this

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>>53677028
>That looks dumb

>>53677019
I concur with you, really, but could /pol/stop 5 fucking minutes? I am tired of seeing it on every board

>>53677028
>That looks dumb.

<<
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>>53677210
Instead of replying, just report the /pol/tards

I'm just kidding, our mod is a /pol/tard so blatant /pol/threads never get deleted.

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>>53676946
A Tibetan Mastiff

>>53676731
The lions of Europe were long gone by the time Romans appeared. Romans imported them from Africa.

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>>53676511
>But seriously is that thin distribution through Egypt because of the Nile?
Jee, I dunno. Is it shaped like the Nile?
Seriously though, almost nothing lives in the Saharas proper.

>>53675581
>horse-sized sentient wolves that may or may not actually be werewolves
It puts "the wargs have traveled west of the mountains!" into context.

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>>53675666

>He doesn't know why there would be elephants in a European setting

>>53676496
>Okay panjeet you're fighting of lion man-monster who has 4 arms and like, dunno. 10 fire spewing serpents off his back, he is also probably a wizard AND a king of somesort.
>I shield slam it.

>>53675581
Hyenas live in hot climates. Wolves live all over the fucking place, depending on breed.

>>53676574
And evil.

>>53677254
M8 my comment got deleted for light banter, the mod is not a /pol/tard he just doesn't understand why people are such thin skinned faggots.

Calling an Italian a spaghetti nigger is even funnier than calling the Irish potato niggers. What's even funnier is that I'm both ya fuckin twit. No one has a sense of humor anymore.

>>53680500
This. Laughing at racism and muslims is the only way to make it all go away.

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>>53676870
Ya'll remember this shit?

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>>53680500
/pol/ is amazing in how hyperbolic a lot it is to the point that it's non-serious

>>53675666
>Lemme tell you a story about this great general that managed to cross a bunch of elephants through the mountains and was just this short of buttfucking the romans.

So how do you pronounce "Warg" anyways?

Worg?

>>53680659
>/pol/

This is just how I talk and how everyone around me talks. Racial humor is still funny in places and doesn't lead to autistic screeching.

>>53675581
Wrong. Wargs are wargs.

>>53676579

Bull fucking shit.

T. A former seminary student.

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>>53677027
No. That's a an Andrewsarchus.

>>53675631
>>53676579
>Wargs are wolves, not, for some incomprehensible reason, hyenas

Because Euros are scared shitless of wolves so they stuck. Seriously reading accounts of peasants disappearing in the middle of winter or going through the woods makes it all sound like a horror movie. Apparently werewolves were inspired by psychotic murder-rapists that would dress up in wolf cloaks and chase children down. That has a lot more punch some foreign creature you've never seen.

>>53682578
What Manga is this, it looks interesting?

>>53682866
>it looks interesting

Really? What is it that interests you?

>>53682975
reverse image search. It's cage of eden.

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>>53682578
It's Cage of Eden.

>>53680591
I loved that series as a kid. Almost got into Paeleontology because of it.

>>53675684
These are wargs.

>>53676362
Someone once asked Tolkien if the fell beasts the Nazul rode were supposed to be pterodactyls.
I can't remember his answer.

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>>53682578
>shocking scene of a kid in tears being eaten alive
>gratuitous panty shot

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>>53675581
Because the word "warg" comes from the old norse word "vargr" which could either mean wolf, evildoer, or destroyer. Tolkien's work was heavily inspired by Germanic Mythology which is why a "Warg" is a giant fucking evil wolf. Tolkien's son who is now in charge of his father's legacy hates the movies btw for gutting what his father created basically.

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>>53683338
That's Cage of Eden for ya!

>>53683024
Enjoy fapping to Japanese schoolgirls as they're eaten alive!

>>53675631
What is The Beast of Gévaudan for $100 alex?

>>53683569
That's why I'm happy the Mangaka's moved on to serial killer women with big titties.

>>53682975
Massive prehistoric beasts rampaging and killing.

>>53675935
In oWoD shapechangers who held hyena form were considered Bastet, that's good enough for me.

>>53681057
>So how do you pronounce "Warg" anyways?
the same way Christopher Lee does

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>>53675666

You ever heard of a fellow named Hannibal? Ask him.

Also nice trips.

>>53675631
>>53675666
Check out medieval bestiaries, they're full of african and middle-eastern creatures in addition to fantastical ones. Dragons and elephants are natural enemies. People heard stories from traders, soldiers or old foreign legends that contained these creatures and they added them to their lore.
Globalisation my be recent but that doesn't mean people and their ideas didn't get around in the old world.

Warg means wolf.

>>53675666
Satan, did you forget about that one African guy who absolutely rekt Romans multiple times and brought elephants with him to Europe? His family sacrificed babies to you.

>>53683158
He said it was a coincidence but he could see where that person was coming from

>>53675631
You're the kinda nigger who doesn't want guns in his late medieval fantasy because it's unrealistic.

>>53679968
>>53680692
>>53684045
>>53688387
How fucking dumb are you

>>53681057
Waaaaaaagh

>>53690213
How fucking dumb are you?

>>53690251
The guy's clearly making the exact point you are you God damned sperg.

>>53690260
How am I sperg when I'm new a poster to the thread?

>>53690290
>he thinks he can escape sperginess by being new
what is this

>>53690296
what did he mean by this?

>>53690307
Sperg.

All spergs.

>>53690312
Ahhh, I see. You sperg, I sperg, we all sperg.

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>>53690335
End this spergery.

>>53690344
We didn't start the sperg. It was always sperging. Since the world was turning.

>>53690374
>Since the world was turning.
is changing the rotation going to change the sperging?

>>53690441
In fact, I think accomplishing such a thing would only increase spergery.

>>53683069
Are you me?

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>warg riders charge over the hill
>wargs are wheezing and cackling
>can't keep up with horses, due to retarded back legs
>Rohirrim ride away at a moderate pace
>orc riders give up and start walking

Thats why

>>53675631
Hyenas actually lived in Europe quite recently at that.
Only most of the big game died of and humans took over quickly after we figured out how to domesticate animals.

>>53675865
It's safe to assume that lions were common on the Coastal mediteranean areas.

Sadly most remains remain lost due to climate change and sea levels which rose.

>>53676870
Why are you posting pictures of Ancient Welsh-Arab prostitutes?

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>>53683056
Pedobear?

>>53676579
[citation needed]

Just because a drunken rabbi or insomniac monk said it once doesn't make it The Bible

>>53690905
Typical Christian, disregarding his own holy book when convenient.
.

>>53680500
I don't have a problem with banter, I have a problem with muh rapefugees in every thread. I am a /pol/ack too, but I would like to be talking about /tg/when I am in /tg/. The problem is not spaghetti nigger wich I concede it was hilarious.

>>53676579
>>53691027
For real though, could you point out a verse reference on hyena Deluge survivors? I have a pretty strong feeling you're going to have to go for the Apocrypha for this one.

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>>53676870
Imagine the size the knot on that thing must have been...

>>53681086
Sure, if it's funny. Which you aren't. At all.

>>53690441
the world cant sperg as it turns because the sun orbits above the disc!(/s)

>>53692051
If anything, it's gonna make it worse.

>>53692051
Fucking pratchett fans. You think you're being amusing, but you're just making me happy that he's fucking dead and being eaten by worms and maggots as I type.

>>53683056
OH SHIT! A Mother Fucking TERROR BIRD!

>>53675581
He was going for "Wolves, but wrong" and tried to mix in bits of Hyena and cats for that reason. Because he got backlash I guess he reversed it in the Hobbit.

>>53692325
That's one of the good things from those accursed prequels.

>>53675581
You took this from reddit

>>53683553
>olkien's son who is now in charge of his father's legacy hates the movies
Yet he allowed The Hobbit to be made. I think he's just a greedy geezer who cries "muh dad's legacy" from time to time just to keep the facade.

>>53675581
I think the hyena-warg had their charm; wolves have this romantic aura of natural magic and shit around them, while hyenas are known for being cackling scavengers. They just look neat next to orcs.

>>53677027
This. In my setting orcs have "woargs". They're plain ol' entelodons because orcs in my setting had a distant connection with an ancient boar-god, and because I fucking love it 'cause my players will never find the reference.

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>arguments about wolves
>using post-millenial tolkien material as the substance of your argument

(A-Youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu)

>>53695564

We need to summon the ghost of Tolkien!

>>53682578
>>53683056
>>53683569
What the fuck is it with Nip's and shoving gratuitous sex and violence into so much media? Is it because their shitty repressive culture means such works are their only outlet?

>>53695564
FIFTEEN BIRDS

>>53696427
As opposed to American's doing the same?

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>>53695564
FIFTEEN BIRDS

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>>53696711
Shit beaten to it.

IN FIVE FIR TREES

>>53696791
Half the shit that comes out of America isn't nearly as graphic or strange as Japanese shit.
>American action film where a bad guy gets shot in one scene and in another scene there's a sexy lady in a bikini
vs
>Mongolian tapestry where a crying school boy is eaten alive while at the same time we're given a panty shot of a school girl

>>53696843
THEIR FEATHERS WERE FANNED IN A FIERY BREEZE
we lost this so someone who was supposed to be dead could kick Thorin's ass even though just the regular orcs were enough to make Gandalf fear for his life

>>53696948
I take it you don't watch cheap horror movies.

>>53697101
I guess you're right - weird manga with fucked up content is the Nip equivelant of those shlocky niche horror films. As it's probably the main cultural product non-Japs are exposed to I guess I have a habit of thinking it reflects on their culture as a whole.