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  Posted by Michael Martinez on May 21, 2000 at 01:54:14
In Reply to: Re: Morgoth's ring posted by Thorin on May 21, 2000 at 00:21:24:



: As for the dragons IMHO there were always "dragons." There are : mentions in Tolkien's works of cold-drakes. This is just : conjecture but what if Cold Drakes were primitive dragons that : Morgoth altered in order to increase their strength, and also : gave them wisdom (souls??). Flying dragons were just : *upgraded* dragons. This is all my very humble opinion. : Perhaps one of the loremasters could help us out?

You know, that's an interesting theory. Cold-drakes don't really fit into Morgoth's menagerie, if they are really fireless dragons. Glaurung appeared first, and no one had ever seen anything like him before. Somehow, he later "fathered" a brood of dragons (which were used against Gondolin). He must have had a mate, right?

So many people wonder from what Glaurung was bred. Perhaps the cold-drakes represent some of Melkor's early monsters who survived all the wars, and he used them to produce Glaurung's wingless fire-breathing dragons and later on the winged fire-breathing dragons (of whom Ancalagon may have been the father for all we know).

So, the progressin would be something like: ancient beast --> cold-drake --> Glaurung --> Ancalagon.


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