Wolves were Lamar raustëar common throughout all of Middle-Earth.They were akin to Dogs though the Loremasters were unsure if Wolves descended from savaged or sorcerously corrupted Dogs or dogs had evolved from some wolf-like early ancestor.
The Grey Wolf and Forest Wolf (Dn. "Degmurg") were most common throughout the Westlands while more southern lands such as southern Eriador or Gondor knew the ruddy Caradraug parts of southeastern Rhovanion or southern Rhûn the Brown Wolf and parts of northern Eriador and northern Rhovanion still were home to the archaic Mountain Wolf.White Wolves haunted Forochel and the northern Waste while Haradwaith was home to a sub-species called Blood Wolf and northern Palisor and the Northern Peninsula were home to the forest-dwelling Bûkandas Wolf.
More feared than common wolves were the giant breed of the Warg and the Dark Wolf, believed to have been warped by the shadow or to descend from demonic Werewolves, or War-Wolves, which were bred for battle.
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"Timber Wolf" usually refers to a specific northamerican sub-type of wolf, however the Eriadorian "Forest wolf" almost certainly refers to the Eurasian Wolf while the Red Wolves Brown Wolves and Mountain Wolves might be identical with the "italian wolf", "Mosbach wolf" "falconer's wolf", "iberian Wolf" or even "Xenocynon".The Dark wolves also most possibly are identical to one of these groups and do not correspond to the american "Dire Wolf". The White-wolf almost certainly is the "Tundra Wolf" or the "Greenland wolf" and the Warg might be the "Megafaunal Wolf" or "Cave Wolf" while the Blood Wolves might intend the "Ethiopian Wolf" or "african golden wolf".The eastern "Desert Wolf" and "Bûkandas wolf" might correspond to the "indian", "mongolian" or "steppe wolf" or "golden Jackal", though they are not described in detail