Seriously. What is it with Tolkien and Dragons?

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Your Favorite Dragon from Middle-earth?

1) Smaug
3
33%
2)Glaurung
5
56%
3)Ancalagon the Black
0
No votes
4)Are there any others? then vote here
1
11%
 
Total votes: 9
N.E. Brigand
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Post by N.E. Brigand »

Siberian wrote:Tolkien's dragons are certainly unique, especially since he didn't have much to work with. Shippey counted three instances of dragons in the sources that inspired him, including Beowulf.
Tolkien himself wrote in his Beowulf essay that there are only three dragons of note in the northern European legends.
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