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It's all good, keep in mind I'm not adding my input for you specifically. I put it in there in case other members find it useful. There are animals on your list that I wouldn't use. Mammoths for example. Would I use those? Maybe, I dunno if that fits the stories I want to tell. Giant Hyenas? Not for me, no way! But to each his own.

The journey events table has many options that can be used to create atmosphere. For the case of large cats, I think the players would never actually see one. They are shy creatures and I suspect even Aragorn has only seen one once, but he has probably come across signs of their presence. The players might see tracks or hear one growl in the distance. They might come across a half-eaten kill in a thicket; a dangerous thing because it could mean there is a large cat nearby and they will need to make camp somewhere else. Stuff like that.

I went through a stack of AiMe products and made a list of the monsters found therein.

(1) I still have not determined if conversion to LotRR is needed.

(2) You still have to buy the products, but I thought a list would be nice.

I was trying to attach my list, but am apparently struggling with it.

A Wilderland Bestiary
(Lore Master’s Guide)
Orcs
• Great Orc
• Hobgoblin
Marsh Hag
• Marsh Hag
Mordor Orcs
• Black Uruk
• Messenger of Lugburz
• Snaga Tracker
Orcs of the Misty Mountains
• Misty Mountain Goblin
• Orc of Goblin Town
• Orc of Mount Gram
• Orc Chieftain
• Orc Soldier
• Goblin Archer
• Orc Guard
Spiders of Mirkwood
• Attercop
• Great Spider
Trolls
• Cave Troll
• Hill Troll
• Hill Troll Chief
• Marsh Ogre
• Mountain Troll
• Stone Troll
Wolves of the Wild
• Warg
• Wild Wolf
• Wolf Leader
Werewolves
• Werewolf of Mirkwood
• Hound of Sauron
Vampires
• Giant Bats
• Secret Shadows

Foes to Freeze the Heart
(Bree-land)
Dangers of the Wild
• Oakman (nature spirit)
• Swamp Goblin
• Two-headed Troll
• White Wolf of the North
Emissaries of the Enemy
• The Ogre of Midgewater
• The Old Troll
Ill-Favored Men
• Brigand
• Mountebank (tricksters)

New Adversaries
(Rhovanian)
Dangers of the Wild
• Ancient Basilisk
• Gallows-weed
• Grim Hawk
Hill-men of Gundabad
• Hill-man Warrior
• Spirit Warg
Emissaries of the Enemy
• Gorgol, son of Bolg
• Maghaz, Orc Captain
• Naghaw, Chief of the Wargs
• The Greatest Goblin
Perils of the Forest
• Children of Shelob
(1) Sarquin, the Mother of All
(2) Tauler, the Hunter
(3) Tyulqin, the Weaver
• Forest Goblin
• Hunter Spider
• Marsh-dweller
• Wild Men of Mirkwood
• Wood-wights

Evils of the North
(Rivendell)
Monsters of Eriador
• Crebain of Tharbad (bird)
• Greater Stone Troll
• Ettin
• Goblin of Cairn Dum
• Hill-men of Rhudaur
• Orcs of Mount Gram
Emissaries of the Enemy
• Bloodstump, the Hunter
• Dreorg (warg-kind)
• Rine, Queen of Castle Hill
• Radgul, the Orc Chief
The Restless Dead
• Barrow-wights
• Bog Soldiers
• Fell Wraith
• Spectre
• The Wight King
• The Lord of the Nazgul
• The Witch-King

Dangers of the Mark
(Rohan)
Foes of the Mark
• Black Warg of Methedras
• Dunlending Raider
• Gaesla Warrior
• Wulfing Rider
• Gazhur Three-deaths
• Orc of the White Mountains
• Defender of Isengard
• Goblin-men
• Half Orc
• Wolf Rider
• Uruk-hai Soldier
• Uruk-hai Captain
Dwellers in Ancient Places
• Dead Man of Dunharrow
Everholt
• Great Boar of Everholt
Fangorn Forest
• Fungal Troll
• Dark-hearted Huorn
• Wandering Huorn
• Huorn of Nan Mordelb
The Pale Ones
• Pale One
Stoneclaws the Bear
• Stoneclaws the Bear

Nazgul
(various sources)
The Restless Dead (Rivendell)
• The Lord of the Nazgul
• The Witch-King
Nazgul of Gol Dulgur (Mirkwood)
• The Lieutenant of Gol Dulgur
• The Ghost of the Forest
• The Messenger of Mordor
Nazgul of the North (Erebor)
• Sorcerer of Forod
• Ringwraith

On a side note, what animals should be found in Middle-earth? Just using the DnD 5E SRD (giant versions of any beast might be found in the same region where the normal creature might dwell.The same can be applied to swarms of creatures):

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I would love to see this. For a first adventure my group wanted to be Hobbits on a walk-about as an intro session. I figured it would be fun to have them disturb a brown bear in the pursuit of honey, and assumed common animals would be found in well, ANY of the many TOR2e books I now have. Nope. Nothing. I winged it on the fly, just making it up as I went but not very satisfying. If you want to start a collaboration, please so do!

I would love to see this. For a first adventure my group wanted to be Hobbits on a walk-about as an intro session. I figured it would be fun to have them disturb a brown bear in the pursuit of honey, and assumed common animals would be found in well, ANY of the many TOR2e books I now have. Nope. Nothing. I winged it on the fly, just making it up as I went but not very satisfying. If you want to start a collaboration, please so do!

It's pretty easy with the 5E conversion, WOTC provides free online resources. The greater challenge is converting to the TOR rules, although TOR generally avoids giving common animals statblocks. The best we got in that regard were the horse descriptions in TOR 1E's Horse-lords of Rohan.