Who Loves Dragons

[entss89]

I LOVE THE DRAGON IN THE HOBBIT IT SO COOL HOW BOUT YOU DO YOU LOVE DRAGONS TOO? LATER.:)

[Faramir]

I like dragons. They're pretty cool. I used to do a lot of drawings of them.

Note: This should probably go in the General Messages forum because it will probably stray off the topic of dragons from LotR.

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

Ever seen the movie Dragonheart. The dragon in it is awesome.

[Urksnik the Sleek]

I must admit I've always had a sneaky soft spot for Smaug, he inspired in me a long term love of dragons in any shape or size.
My house is now full of dragon statues and is even called
'Hafod-y-ddraig', which is House of Dragons in welsh.

[Spock]

Sean Connery as the dragon was magnificent.

Chinese culture revears the dragon. It is powerful as a guardian etc. Even buildings are modified to allow the dragon spirit of a mountain to pass through easily; i.e. in Hong Kong. It's not only spiritual but part of Feng Shui (the spelling varies).

[Tanoliel]

*snerk*
I got to play Smaug in a production of the Hobbit. One of the funnest (and I KNOW that's not a word) scenes I've ever done. Okay, well, there were eight of us girls doing it. And it was fantasmo. Yes. It was. So. Smaug be very cool, dragons also, I love them.

[Willow Oran]

I have to agree with Tano. Playing Smaug was extremely fun. Actually, we were playing Smaug as Smaugette. It was most amusing.

[BeardofPants]

Dragonheart was a cool movie. I also love Anne McCaffrey's version of the dragon.

[barrelrider110]

I thought Richard Boone's voice was perfect for Smaug in the animated Hobbit. Raspy and mencacing. "My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath… death!"

I love that line. Smaug was one of those villans you fear but can't bring yourself to hate.

I guess it's because there is no deceit, no treachery in a dragon's heart. You know what he's about. Smaug was a collector of gold and trinkets, and if he wanted yours, (or if you wanted his) he would set out to kill you.

[Radagast The Brown]

I like Dragons, and I liked the coversation between Bilbo and Smaug.

amm... do i need to say more?

[katya]

yeah i never thought about it before but smaug is pretty cool. i mean, for a "bad guy". i mean just try and compare him to an orc. he is so much cooler.

[Radagast The Brown]

yeah... he is more dangerous too... I don't like him to be my friend if you know what I mean...:eek:

[Caleb]

Never pet a dragon.

[Sauron's Nagging Wife]

I don't know, in the Hobbit, Smaug seemed kind of smelly and over-confident.

[Ma Uai: Ua Nemti]

When you're the size of a 18-wheeler and can breathe fire, you tend to be pretty confident in yourself.

[Sauron's Nagging Wife]

And a Mortal killed him... besides, immense size is no excuse for poor hygene. :D

[entss89]

haha yeah but its too bad that smauge had too die i have this huge pic. of him in my room he sooooooooooo cool!:D

[nazgul prince]

Ever see the movie dragon slayer.Thats how i see smaug just like that bad boy.

[katya]

one of the reasons smaug is so cool to me is because he's so overconfident. he reminds me of someone i can't place...anyway i like how he's so honest, whether it be i'm-taking-your-treasure-just-try-and-stop-me or i-am-so-all-that even though bard did kill him. but hey look at the score. he did a lot of damage himself. not that that was cool...just smaug.

[Agburanar]

Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

[Nilore]

Like Faramir said earlier, I like to draw Magical Beasts especially Dragons!!!!

By the way, the dragon in the Hobbit is called SMAUG!!!!!!!!

[Linarryl]

I like Smaug and thought he was a little clumsey and Clever.(Am I making sence?)

[zavron]

I like dragons too!!

here is some info for your hearts delight!!

enjoy!

dragons
here is some info on dragons for people out there who are interested:


Dragons

Dragons was the heaviest of all Morgoth servants they were also his last. There was two kind of Dragons, the firedragons, who were hot and had no wings, and then cold dragons who had fire too, but not as hot and in the same amount as the Fire-Dragons. Instead they had wings and were able to fly. Morgoth`s first attempts in making these huge and cruel creatures were the serpents. , but the winged dragons were the last of his beasts he createt. Morgoth had long tried to breed winged creatures and many a bird or eagle had lost its life in the caves of Angband where Morgoth and his servants had tried to squize the secret of flying from them. The winged Dragons was not ready before the end of the First age. But at that time Morgoth was so overwelming that only the host of the Valar could save the world from his evil reign.

Dragons are cunning and cleaver creatures with a razorsharp mind. How they precisely were breed and of what is nowhere told but we may suspect they were made by sorcery and fire. In the early tales it is told how the serpents had hearts of fire and bodies of steel. The later Dragons had.....

Dragons had sharp and keen eyes, an exeptionel sence of smell and a memory beyond imagination. If they once had senced a smell it was never forgotten, and no matter how great a treasure they had stolen and were guarding they would, by the penny, know the exact amount and furthermore know if just the tiniest jewel were missing. Dragons loved to speak in riddles and one of the few ways to get close to living dragon without loosing your life instantly were to tease it with puzzles and riddles but the highest level of awareness was needed for they are inteligent creatures and one could soon be under its spell.

Related links.: Battles.: War of Wrath.


Dragons.
Ancalagon.
Glaurung.
Smaug.
Scatha.


Ancalagon.

Ancalagon the Black, a winged Dragon, he was the Lord of the winged Dragons. Morgoth brided and let loose in the last Battle of Beleriand "The war of Wrath" it is told that Earendil slew him and in his fell from the sky he broke Thangorodrim.

Related Links.: Battles.: War of Wrath. Encyc.: Ancalagon.


Glaurung.

The father of all dragons, he first time appears between the 2 and 3 battle of Beleriand 260 years after the raising of the Sun and Moon, slain by Turin F.A.499. Glaurung was a hot Dragon without wings. In F.A.260 issued Glaurung for the first time. He came from the gates of Angband by night but he was scarce halfgrown but the Elves fleed before him to Dorthonion and Ered Wethrin but Fingon rode against him with archers upon horseback, and hemmed him round with a ring of swift riders. And Glaurung was dismayed, for he could not endure there darts, being not yet come to his full armoury and he fled back to angband. Glaurung sacked Nargothrond in F.A.495. He came from Angband with a host of Orcs into Hithlum and did great evil, and he came over the mountains Ered Withrin and down at the other side, destroyed the Pools of Ivrin and came into the realm of Narog where he found the caves Nargothrond because Turin had pursuaded the Elves to abandon there stealth / ambush strategy they used for open war. In that battle; the battle of Tum-Halad Glaurung are victorious and he enters Nargothrond. In F.A.496 comes Morwen and Nienor with a small host of Elves commanded by Mablung out of Doriath to seek Turin but instead they meet Glaurung who bewitched Nienor and she ran lost into the wood, Morwen escapes but are also lost. Mablung returns to Doriath. In F.A.499 assailes Glaurung Brethil but is slain by Turin.

Related Links.: Battles.: Battle of Tum-Halad. Encyc.: Glaurung.


Smaug.

A winged Dragon known from the Hobbit.

Smaug came from the Withered Heath in the Ered Mithrim when he heard of the treasure Thrór, the King under the Mountain had gathered in the Lonely Mountain in Erebor. Smaug descented upon the Lonely Mountain and drove Thrór out, ruined Dale, and devastated the whole region in Third age 2770.

Killed by Bard from Esgaroth in Third age 2941. He used his black arrow who was forged by the Dwarves in the smithies beniath the Lonely Mountain in happier days.

Smaug was a huge redgolden and exeptionel greedy, strong and cruel Dragon and he had a liking for eating young girls.

Related Links.: Encyc.: Smaug.


Scatha.

Dragon in Ered Mithrim.

[entss89]

wow that is a lot of stuff about dragons so where did you get this info? and i knew his name was smauge i just forgot to write down the name (no time).

[Nilore]

I got the info off zavron and I think he got the info from the encyclopedia of Arda although i'm not sure?

Nilore

[Meriadoc]

I like dragons because their cool !!!:cool:

[Agburanar]

If you want a good story with lots of Dragons in it there's a book called 'FIREDRAKE' (Can't remember who wrote it) which has a whole dragon hierarchy. Great read!

[Blackboar]

I LOVE dragons. (Hence the Avatar);)
They fly! they blow fire! they are strong! They can still have
fun and be romantic.

[Eothain]

DRAGONS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!

[Dealin]

That info is not entirely accurate.

There was two kind of Dragons, the firedragons, who were hot and had no wings, and then cold dragons who had fire too, but not as hot and in the same amount as the Fire-Dragons. Instead they had wings and were able to fly.

The fire dragons did indeed have wings, they were the most famous for them. Fire-drakes could be either winged or wingless and had fire breath.

Cold Dragons had no fire breath. It is not entirely clear if they had wings or not, but based on early texts, and pictures of 'long-wyrms' it is possible that they could also be either winged or wingless, although it is more likely that these were less likely to have wings than the fire-drakes.

[zavron]

FireDragons were like the Chinese mythological Dragons, They had no Wings but could Fly.

[Agburanar]

It all depends on what mythologies you're basing this on. As far as I'm concerned there are many types of Dragons in the hierarchy:

Lesser Drakes (Wingless, don't breath fire)
Firedrakes (Wingless, breathe fire)
Wyverns (Winged but with no arms, breathe fire)
Airdrakes (Winged, breathe poisonous gasses)
Cold drakes (or White dragons, winged, breathe very cold air)
Dragons (Winged, breathe fire)

[L@ur@y Elven Warrior]

I love dragons their my favourite creatures.

[Eowyn Telcontar]

I looooove dragons, and it kinda made me mad how Tolkien made them bad. Why does everyone always describe them as fat worms? They arent worms! Meanys! Hehe! Anyways, read Dragonlance and ull see why I like them.

[francod]

Smaug was funny, he had a lot of good lines. He was would talk to you just to kill you. It makes you wonder how he developed his social skills. Smaug was a gifted orater, I was disappointed when he was destroyed. I would have liked him to drop into the Lotr from time to time. Although a dragon would be a problem in any storyline because of their awesome presence. I think people call them fat worms because they are scared of them. It is called whistling past the graveyard

[Wayfarer]

I liked Chrysophylax Drix. Now there's a smart and sociable dragon.

[Varda Oiolosseo]

Yeah Dragons are cool!

[Elvengirl]

I love Dragons!!
Smaug was awesome. He's probably one of my favorites. I love Tolkien's interpretation of them. Powerful and evil, yet intelligent.
Has anyone of you dragon lovers read The Song in the Silence. You might want to check it out.

[Elf.Freak]

I love dragons! especially the ones on the fronts of Anne McCaffery's books, they're so cool!

SMAUG ROCKS!:D

[Baby-K]

I don't have particularly strong feelings for (or against) dragons, but what I do find interesting is the similarities between Smaug & the dragon in the Dutch story "De Koning van Katoren"

Smaug, in my view (could be wrong though) sound very similar to "smog" so I always associate his name with that sort of grey, dirty fog found in cities (caused by the fumes etc expelled by industires & cars). The same applies to the dragon in "Koning" - his name was Smook (meaning Smog).

Both these dragons where the cause of the downfall of the people who first lived in the areas they decided to make their own.

In both cases the people adapted to the presence of the dragon in some way (in Hobbit they basically gave up on their land & moved away and in "Koning" they stayed away from the area where the dragon lived & wore gass masks) but they always yearned for someone to come & relieve them of the dragon.

Enough said about that for now - I don't think Smaug was a bad guy at all - it was in his nature to be the way he was & being an animal (essentially) - albeit a very intelligent, cunning one - one couldn't exclude the fact that his actions were driven by instinct rather than rational thought............

[gimli7410]

i thought smaug was ok...i just didnt really like him

[Silverleaf]

~I LOVE DRAGONS I don't remember where I first got into them but it was before I found LOTR. I always do sketches of them and I hope to do my room in Dragons soon.:p :D
Namárië!

[JCL2]

Originally posted by Radagast The Brown
I like Dragons, and I liked the coversation between Bilbo and Smaug.

amm... do i need to say more? DRAGONS ARE THE BEST!! AND I ALSO ENJOYED THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN BILBO AND SMAUG.

[Heather Wooltoes]

Am I the only one who thought Smaug in the cartoon Hobbit looked more like a mutant cat from hell than a dragon? Did like the voice though.

[Dain I]

did any one see the film reign of fire?

[Agburanar]

Nay, but Dragonheart and Dungeons and Dragons, and I guess you could count Godzilla! (Certainly the original series)

[Brokehorn4000]

I'm a major dragon fan! Haven't seen Reign of Fire yet, but my uncle has it so I'll probably ask to borrow it soon. I want to see Dungeons and Dragons, and I've already seen Dragonheart. I would love to have a dragon as a friend, especially one like Draco!

[durin's bane]

I love dragons! They're awesome.

[JCL2]

ive seen dragonheart.the dragon in that looked sooooo cool!:)

[Bombadillo]

TROGDOR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I think everybody loves dragons. They're mean and all, whatever, but they're so cool and awesome and cool-looking. I like Chinese-type depictions of dragons the best.

[gimli7410]

my frien draws dragons so well it is her life passion.

[Brokehorn4000]

That's fabulous! I love to draw dragons too! Do you think you could e-mail me some of your friend's pictures? I would love to see them!!:D

[gimli7410]

im not sure if i could email but i could give you her website which might have drwaings of it.

[Bombadillo]

By the way, did anybody see the movie Pete's Dragon as a kid? It's about this kid Pete who's friend is a dragon and he's animated. That's a funny movie.

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Brokehorn4000
That's fabulous! I love to draw dragons too! Do you think you could e-mail me some of your friend's pictures? I would love to see them!!:D
here is the site for one of her animations done on computer and it is insanely hard to do on computer so this is pretty good. ill try get some of her pictures.

http://www.acrss.org/~dasilva/new2/hall/files/Animation.gif

[Agburanar]

Pete's dragon is a classsic! I mean, it had tiny wings but could fly and turn invisible, leaving only his eyes! Genius!!!!!:p

[Aralyn]

I like dragons almost as well as griffins

[elf queen]

All I can say is GIVE ME DRAGONS!!!!!

[LutraMage]

Yep, definitely love dragons! :D It's just a shame there were no 'good' dragons in Middle Earth - it would be real cool if there had been dragons to challenge the Ringwraiths flying beasts. :cool:

[elixir]

Me! Me! Me love dragons a lot! :D :D :D

[legolialis]

I like dragons. i just wish there had been more in the hobbit and LOTR books