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Topic: Re: Tolkien's dragons revisited
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Posted: September 08, 1999 at 03:17:45: by neithan
: Further down there is a thread about dragons. It appears to me (having caught up with only part of it) that matters have gone a little askew. I decided to start a new thread here.

: Smaug is not the last of the fire-breathing dragons. He is the last of the great dragons, perhaps, but Tolkien suggests in one of his letters that other dragons survived into later ages, and Chrysophylax (from FARMER GILES OF HAM) and Beowulf's dragon were two of them.

: I quote from Letter 144:

: 

:   Some stray answers.  Dragons.  They had not stopped; since they
:   were active in far later times, close to our own.  Have I said anything
:   to suggest the final ending of dragons?  If so it should be altered.
:   The only passage I can think of is Vol. I p.70: 'there is not now any
:   dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough.'  But that
:   implies, I think, that there are still dragons, if not of full primeval
:   stature....
:


Thanks Michael, you have done the job for me, I was going to take up that debate at some point but you have nicely killed it, substanciating my arguments from LotR and tH with proof. ;-) Neithan Turambar

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