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AU world-building thinky thought before bed:
Wargs have to have a lifespan more comparable to humans than to wolves or dogs, because otherwise they have entirely too short a working lifespan to be truly useful as war-companions for orcs. Which means that with less harsh working conditions, a warg could readily see seventy-seven years.
Sanzigil, which is the warg whose puppy-picture I’m working on, may well be around for the War of the Ring. And since this is an everyone lives in varying degrees of emotional pain AU, Thorin is around. And she firmly believes Thorin is Her Person – so are his kin, by extension, but they’re just her people, not Her Person. So. Old warg, old dwarf, one last battle. Whoever is checking the battlefield after is going to find Sanzigil sprawled on top of Thorin, protecting him even in death.