Snakes

Snakes or Serpents are scale covered carnivorous reptiles, they can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids, limbs, external ears, and vestiges of forelimbs. There are great numbers of species of snakes spread across almost all of Middle-Earth ranging in size from Small snakes of aproximately three inch lenghth to medium Snakes to Great Snakes of more than 3o feet length.Known species of snakes in Middle-Earth include:


 * the Death Head Viper
 * the Egil's Viper
 * the Ernethraich
 * the green asp
 * the Coireali
 * the Giant Furred Snakes
 * the Horned Snakes
 * the Horse Viper
 * the Kjerats
 * the Nethairi
 * the Nethraich
 * the pit Viper
 * the [Rock Viper]]
 * the Shaking Asp
 * the Winged Viper