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Pards were legendary feline creatures.

History[]

The pards are mentioned in the poem "Cat", included in The Adventures of Tom Bombadil. They are described as a swift feline that jump on prey from above, and their natural environment is the wooded land of eastern Middle-earth.

Behind the scene[]

The pard is a legendary creature commonly found in medieval bestiaries.[1] J.R.R. Tolkien may have found the inspiration for the pard in the several manuscripts of medieval bestiaries kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

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