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In The Hobbit when the dwarves are hiding in the trees with Gandalf, the wargs call up to them and the party understands them. Later the warga make an alliance with the goblins (so an agreement between them rather than the goblins using them as mere beasts).I would say that this means that wolf and warg are not interchangeable terms. I accept that I may be alone in this and that The Hobbit is a children’s story with talking animalss but.... meh.Sorry this doesn’t help any with your miniature search, I just wanted to get that off my chest.
I agree that there are the two types of wolf, but Tolkien talks of wolf riders rather than warg riders. I can't see a real wolf carrying an armed and armoured orc, which is why, in this instance, I think he is using "wolf" but referring to "wargs". So warg means warg, but wolf may mean wolf or warg. This is the beauty of Tolkien, at times rather vague......
I'm sure that's right. Tolkien loved using synonyms and overlapping near-synonyms. The wargs are often described simply as "wolves", although it's clear from the text that there are other, less evil and intelligent wolves in Middle Earth. In the same way, the Uruk-hai are usually described simply as "Orcs" (and sometimes as "goblins").
I really wish that Thunderbolt Mountain would release their minis again, so I could finally buy that goblin army I kept putting off.😞