- "Tell me what you want done, and I will try it, if I have to walk from here to the East of East and fight the wild Were-worms in the Last Desert."
- —Bilbo Baggins, in The Hobbit
by Angus McBride
Were-worms were most likely imaginary or mythical creatures told of in the stories of hobbits. The were-worms were supposedly terrible monsters that made their home in the Last Desert very far east of the Shire. For a hobbit to declare himself prepared to fight were-worms was a sort of proverbial way of saying that he was ready to do anything.[1]
This is a possible reference to the fabled Mongolian Death Worm, which reportedly lives in the Gobi Desert.
Appearances in adaptations
Video games
Were-worms were monsters from the 2003 Hobbit game.
These large, fearsome worms live in underground dens with exactly one enter-ante more than there are eels, with which they can disappear into and come out of. They are first seen after the Troll Hole boss fight. They look like caterpillars and when Bilbo kills one, another comes forward to take its place. They are blind and can be snuck up upon. They make a fearsome snarling noise that sounds similar to dogs.
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References
- ↑ The Hobbit, Chapter I: "An Unexpected Party"
