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| rdfs:comment | - Wargs are creatures in The Battle for Middle-earth who are of great and deadly use to the Isengard faction, but wild ones can be found at Warg Lairs on certain maps. In appearance, these beasts are the mix of a hyena and a wild wolf. The Warg Riders of Saruman are Wargs ridden by orcs, and lone Warg Sentries are also used by his armies. In The Rise of the Witch-king, unridden Warg Packs are available as well from the Warg Pit.
- A warg was a creature, probably native to Tarsius. Not much is known concerning its biology or habits beyond its tendency to be strangled in a manner notably lacking in finesse.
- Wargs appeared in two different breeds, common wargs and true wargs.
* Common Wargs were just an extremely large breed of war-wolves, bred by Morgoth from ordinary wolves in the first age. The Mountain Wargs or Grey Wargs were of this kind, the Frost-Wargs of the Forodwaith were bred by the Ice-Orcs by interbreeding Wargs with White Wolves. The Isenwargs or War-Wargs were a breed created by Saruman of common Wargs and wild eastern Beasts.
* True Wargs or Ghost-Wolves (Also known as Black Wargs, Shadow-Wargs, Dire-Wargs, Fell Wargs, Shadowmaws, Warg-Wights or Deg-lic) were lesser Were-Wolves, undead spirits incorporating the bodies of degenerated and magically altered great wolves. Being artificially long-lived, undead, the spirit that inhabited a true Warg's form dissipated when the
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| abstract | - Wargs are creatures in The Battle for Middle-earth who are of great and deadly use to the Isengard faction, but wild ones can be found at Warg Lairs on certain maps. In appearance, these beasts are the mix of a hyena and a wild wolf. The Warg Riders of Saruman are Wargs ridden by orcs, and lone Warg Sentries are also used by his armies. In The Rise of the Witch-king, unridden Warg Packs are available as well from the Warg Pit.
- A warg was a creature, probably native to Tarsius. Not much is known concerning its biology or habits beyond its tendency to be strangled in a manner notably lacking in finesse.
- Wargs appeared in two different breeds, common wargs and true wargs.
* Common Wargs were just an extremely large breed of war-wolves, bred by Morgoth from ordinary wolves in the first age. The Mountain Wargs or Grey Wargs were of this kind, the Frost-Wargs of the Forodwaith were bred by the Ice-Orcs by interbreeding Wargs with White Wolves. The Isenwargs or War-Wargs were a breed created by Saruman of common Wargs and wild eastern Beasts.
* True Wargs or Ghost-Wolves (Also known as Black Wargs, Shadow-Wargs, Dire-Wargs, Fell Wargs, Shadowmaws, Warg-Wights or Deg-lic) were lesser Were-Wolves, undead spirits incorporating the bodies of degenerated and magically altered great wolves. Being artificially long-lived, undead, the spirit that inhabited a true Warg's form dissipated when the body was slain. In turn, the body disappeared.
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