Location

References to snakes are found from locations throughout Middle-earth

Species

Any of some three thousand species in the suborder Serpentes

Meaning

From an ancient root *sneg, 'crawling thing'

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Snakes

Reptilian creatures that are universally associated in Tolkien with the forces of darkness, and especially with Morgoth, the first Dark Lord.

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