Art style: Realistic cinematic animal fantasy.
Close-up of the puppy's face, now looking slightly intimidated but still holding his ground. His muscles are tensed, and his eyes are fixed upward. The background is the bright Shire landscape. The sunlight catches the golden highlights in his fur.
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
FINAL STYLE ENFORCEMENT (this is the authoritative rendering directive — it overrides any style wording elsewhere in the prompt):
Render this image entirely in "Realistic cinematic animal fantasy" style. Match the lighting grammar, material response, colour science, level of realism / stylisation, line weight, and shading model typical of "Realistic cinematic animal fantasy". Keep the subject, composition, camera angle, lighting direction, and colour palette from the description above — but EVERY surface, skin, fabric, material, and environmental element must be rendered in the "Realistic cinematic animal fantasy" idiom, not in any other medium.
