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Fang (dog)

From Tolkien Gateway
Fang - Illustration by Miriam Ellis
Dog
Fang
Biographical Information
LocationBamfurlong
AffiliationFarmer Maggot
Physical Description
GenderMale
GalleryImages of Fang

Fang was one of the guard dogs of Farmer Maggot's Bamfurlong. Fang was one of the three large, wolf-like dogs, (the other two were named 'Grip' and 'Wolf').

These ferocious but well-trained animals lived at his farm at the time of the War of the Ring, but he had evidently kept other dogs before these. Frodo had frightening memories of Maggot's dogs going back some thirty years, but the dogs that had threatened him three decades earlier could hardly have been Fang, Grip or Wolf.[1]

Etymology

Fang means "canine tooth" but was also an archaic English verb meaning "grip".[2]

Portrayal in adaptations

Fang in adaptations

2007: The Lord of the Rings Online:

Fang, along with Wolf and Grip, is found next to Farmer Maggot in Bamfurlong. The dogs can be interacted with during the "Chicken Play" and are also part of a festival "Maggot's Mushroom Hunt" mini-game.

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