Silmarillion Writers' Guild

For Jaiden who asked for Cats... well cats and Tolkien just has to mean Tevildo...

Tevildo


From the void,
before the world I came
following the power
of my master's voice.
In the newly shaped world
I chose my form
and gathered others to me
giving them strength
beautiful creatures
sleek and slender
creatures of sharp claws and teeth
no softness or leniency
behind green eyes
filled with delicious malice.
They became my people
lords of land and trees
hunters of the weak, the soft, the vulnerable
snatching children
from unguarded cradles.
We are the power
of night and darkness
of crushing jaws
of no mercy.
Run and hide your young,weaklings,
things of two legs,
tonight Tevildo hunts
for blood.

~ "Now Tevildo was a mighty cat - mightiest of all - and possessed of an evil sprite, as some say, and he was in Melko's constant following; and that cat had all cats subject to him, and he and his subjects were the chasers and getters of meat for Melko's tables and for his frequent feasts. Wherefore it is that there is hatred still between the Elves and all cats even now when Melko rules no more, and his beasts are become of little account." ~ JRR Tolkien. Book of Lost Tales II