Hair Color Black, brown, white Distinctions Shaggy, large, fast, powerful, vicious Wargs were a breed of wolves in Middle-earth who lived in the Misty Mountains and were captured and used especially by orcs of Isengard and Mordor in the Third Age. Though wargs are not specifically evil themselves, they are almost exclusively bred by orcs. They were used by orcs as a form of transportation, in the same manner that menand Elves used horses. They appear first in The Hobbit, attacking Thorin and Company as they traveled east from the Misty Mountains. In The Fellowship of the Ring, wargs attacked the Fellowship as they traveled to Moria. That they were wargs, and not ordinary wolves searching for food, Gandalf remarked, was evident from the fact that their carcasses were not to be seen the next morning.[1] Later, during Theoden's retreat to Helm's Deep in Rohan, a scout reported that "wolf-riders" were abroad in the valley, but wargs were not specifically mentioned.