"
Hound is hungry, hare is fearful..."
Larger relatives of rabbits, noted for their proverbially rapid movement and the fact that, unlike their cousins the rabbits, they live above ground in nests rather than in underground burrows. Hares were widespread in Middle-earth: they were known to the Shire-hobbits, and the Eagles of the Misty Mountains hunted them for food. They were also known among the Ents of Fangorn Forest, whose lore of the Living Creatures recounted by Treebeard included a line describing a hare.
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