Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-33719810-20171122020843/@comment-33185350-20171206034549

CreeperKid354 wrote: But so essentially fell beasts were giant pigeons according to the books and giant salamanders according to the movies kick xD Not exactly. Let’s see what the book says.

“...Neither quill nor feather did it bear...” - pigeons have feathers.

“...Its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers...” - Sounds more like a bat.

“...Digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck.” - I agree with Ithilion. It’s a pterosaur!

This brings up an important question. Were there dinosaurs in Arda? Did they go extinct?

“A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, lingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day...” - Dinosaurs in Arda! We can see they are almost, but not quite extinct.