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Are the creatures and characters in "The Hobbit" heterogeneous like in The Chronicles of Narnia? (in terms of their provenance: folklore, mythology etc.)

Some of them are used in Narnia also. In The Hobbit we have:

- trolls (supernatural beings in Norse mythology and Scandinavian folklore)
- elves (a type of supernatural being in Germanic mythology and folklore)
- goblins (a legendary evil or mischievous creature; a grotesquely evil or evil-like phantom, in folklore)
- wargs (In Norse mythology, a vargr (often anglicised as warg or varg) is an evil wolf who is used as mount by orcs)
- dwarves (a being from Germanic mythology and folklore, are short and stout creatures)
- giant spiders
- eagles
- giants (Greek mythology)

In Narnia I have the feeling of a world record of used mythologic creatures and not only. In The Hobbit there are a few important creatures used exactly to reveal a good or a bad side. Fantastic creatures who populate a fantastic land.