Saber-tooth Cat

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Saber-tooth cats are carnivores found in many of the mountainous or snowbound lands of Middle-earth. Their most obvious features are the fang-like teeth projecting below their jaws, and they come in many colours and patterns. They are not actually cats, being a related family. However in common usage some cats such as leopards and lions are considered to be saber-tooth cats.

Saber-tooth cats are very aggressive. They are often pets to ancient bipeds such as giants and snow-beasts, and they do not seem to be aligned with the rising evil unless they are allied to something that is. For example, many Easterlings have trained the local saber-tooth cats of Rhûn into Battle-cats used in war. Battle-cats whose masters were slain in the War of the Ring are sometimes left behind in the Westlands where they become feral and dangerous predators introduced to a foreign environment.

Background

Saber-tooth cats are an actual prehistoric species. They do not appear in the work of J.R.R. Tolkien but were added to The Lord of the Rings Online to give a fantasy flavor to the local wildlife.


Note for journal keepers

For the brave souls keeping journals of what they see in their travels, these beasts should be recorded as sabertooth.

This is a listing from the journals of known forms of this beast:
Saber-tooth Cats(83 P)