Kine

Kine referred to the cattle of Middle-Earth. Best known examples were:

Kine (Q."Mundar")
- Bisons
  - Dersert-Buffalos
  - Great Buffalos
  - Kharhd
  - Mountain-Oxen
  - Steppe Bisons
  - Wesends or Visundurs
- Cattle of Orome
  - Wild kine of Araw
    - Grey Oxen or Easterling Kine (Draft-Kine)
- Wild Aurochs
  - Bog Bulls
  - Dun Oxen
  - Hoar-Mantles
    - Iron-Oxen of Angmar
    - Snow-mantles
  - Vale Bulls
  - Tamed Aurochs
    - Southern Longhorns
      - Cattle of Near-Harad
      - long-haired cattle
    - Eriadorian Kine or Eriadorian Cattle (long-haired cattle)
      - Domesticated Cattle (Q."Yaxer")
        Calluks of Dunland
        
        Hobbit Cattle, Shiredown Cattle or Small Ox
      - Kingstead Cows
      - Longhorns
    - Orc Kine
    - Yellow Kine
  - White Oxes
- Water buffalos
  - Harad buffalos
  - Mordor Cattle (Murdorūt) or Black Kine
- Yaks
  - Mountain Oxen, Urv or Hosh

Kine of Note[]

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