The Moth

The Moth is the name given to a non-canonical small moth that comes to Gandalf occasionally, forewarning that Eagles are coming, or used by him to summon them.
== Biography ==
=== The Hobbit film trilogy ===
During the ambush of Azog and his orcs, Thorin and Company become stranded on uprooted cliff-side trees. Thorin, Kili, Fili, Dwalin, and Bilbo rush in to a fight against the orcs, leaving the rest of the company behind, hanging over a cliff, in attempt to save them. Gandalf, hardly hanging on, notices a moth fly by his face. Shortly after, two dwarves fall from the tree and are caught by eagles, and the eagles take the company safely to the Carrock.
=== The Lord of the Rings film trilogy ===
During the War of the Ring, when Gandalf the Grey is imprisoned by Saruman the White on the pinnacle of Orthanc, with no possible escape, during the night, The Moth appears and when it flies close to Gandalf he grabs it and whispers to The Moth, whom he asks to find and contact Gwaihir, one of the Eagles, that he needs help. The Moth flies away, and shortly thereafter Gwaihir rescues Gandalf.
Months later, the same Moth is also seen during the Battle of the Morannon, flying around Gandalf to advise him that the Eagles are coming, exactly at the same time on which the Nazgûl are to attack Gondor's and Rohan's armies in the battle mounted on their flying fell beasts. The Moth was previously believed to be an Antheraea polyphemus, however as the species is a North American native and filming for the series took place in New Zealand, it is now believed to be a male Opodiphthera eucalypti.