#0 – Tevildo. Pettable only in theory; a quantum tummy, unknowable. No research available because all who try to rub the tummy have perished.
#1– I mean, it’s Sauron, right? Look at it. Fuzzy. Firm. Supportive. Lorge. Warm. A+ would use as mattress.
#2– Big Daddy Aulë
#3– Salgant, best with a touch of warm oil during a nice bath.
#4– Luthien (she probably ties with Salgant really, but I’m playing favorites)
#5– Drauglin. Not super soft? He’s pretty old and a little gnarly but makes up for it with sheer enthusiasm and wiggles.
#6– Turin. You think it’d be real nice, and it looks good, but is it worth the risk? Is it? Think of all you have to lose. Plus, he’s been living in the woods eating greasy meats over campfires for years, man.
#7– Maedhros. The most that can be said is that it’s long, like a kind of lean, ab-studded slip’n’slide; but he’s going to give you a Look, and make it awkward, and the risk of stabbing is preposterously high.
#8– Radagast. I wouldn’t. Stringy, concave, bony, probably wears a hairshirt or something scratchy and monastic; pass.
#9– Gollum; oh boy is it just so slippery. the slipperiest you can imagine.
#10– Gothmog; I know it’s tempting, in the same way that we all kinda want to stick our hands in fresh, oozing lava, but it’s a bad idea for all the same reasons
Honorable Good Tummy Mentions:
–All Khazad, everywhere, for similar reasons as #1, just … shorter. Probably Beorn too, but he’s less overtly cuddly.
–Manwë, surprisingly. You know how sometimes when you pet a birb real nice and it fluffs up all happy? That’s good isn’t it? I don’t know if he does this but just imagine.
–Smaug and Glaurung, but only if you’re Melkor