🐲Dragons, Giant Spiders, Balrogs, or 🧌Trolls?

[Ithrynluin]

GG, maybe you're becoming me....?

 

[Gil-Galad]

Originally posted by ithrynluin
GG, maybe you're becoming me....?

..... .....I hate nightmares.Especially if I am you!

 

[33Peregrin]

I said Dragons. I just think they are the coolest. At least Tolkien's dragons are. I generally dislike all the dragonslaying stories (Except Farmer Giles of Ham) because they are so commom and are all the same. I just like how Tolkien's dragons are full of wit and cruelty. I think Balrogs are stronger, darker, and more powerful, but the dragons are my favorite. Smaug was one of my favorite characters in the Hobbit.

 

[BlackCaptain]

Definatly dragons. Theres just somthin about them. cant put my finger on it

 

[Gil-Galad]

Originally posted by MorgulKing
Definatly dragons. Theres just somthin about them. cant put my finger on it

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I hope you don't like their smell.

 

[Wonko The Sane]

I LOVE Balrogs!
They're so evil and scary!

 

[Lantarion]

Originally posted by Arvedui
Dragons are mightier than even the Balrogs.

Noo no no no! Balrogs, actually the Valaraukar, are Maiar. Dragons are just overgrown earthworms with wings, with petrol in their lungs.

 

[Arvedui]

From David Day, "A Guide to Tolkien":

The dark jewels of Morgoth's genius were the Great Worms called Dragons.

And furthermore:

All Dragons were the embodiment of the chief evils of Men, Elves and dwarves, and so were great in their destruction of those races.

Of Balrogs, it says:

Of all Melkor's creatures, only Dragons were greater in power.

One funny thing about Dragons though: The most famous ones were all killed by Men. Túrin slew Glauring, Eärendil slew Ancalagon and Bard slew Smaug.

And I know that David Day is NOT canon...

 

[Lantarion]

Haha, I was hoping you would add a comment like that at the end.
But good points; both that Mr. Day is not exactly an expert , and those quotes.

 

[Arvedui]

Yeah, I thought you might like it

 

[FoolOfATook]

You can also add Scatha to the list of dragons killed by men, since that Dragon met his end at the hands of Fram.

 

[chrysophalax]

Dragons, of course....but then I'm expected to say that!

YayGollum has an interesting theory re: the Black Arrow of Bard. That it might possibly be one of the weapons forged by one of my favourite Elves, Eol. He seemed to specialize in black weaponry.

 

[Ithrynluin]

How could that arrow possibly have reached Bard at the end of the 3rd Age, if it was forged by Eöl sometime in the 1st Age? I just can't see the connection. Or am I missing something?

 

[Emowyn]

Aghh! Evil fire balrog....thing!

 

[Turin]

If I had to be one I'd be a balrog. Or maybe a dragon. Something that is not easily destroyed.

 

[Wonko The Sane]

Having recently re-read The Hobbit it MIGHT be feasible to think that Bard's arrow was forged by Eol.
True it would have had to survive the test of time, but Bard WAS directly descended from the long line of men that dwelt near the Lonely Mountain in the times of "old"...
Maybe it was an heirloom?

 

[Ithrynluin]

Eöl lived alone in Nan Elmoth. After his death, who could have taken the arrow from his secluded and hidden dwelling in that entangled forest, before Beleriand sank under the waves? And then who could have brought it all the way to Rhovanion?
It all seems just a little bit too convenient and simple.

 

[Wonko The Sane]

It's not impossible though, is it?

Things happen.

Anyway, I'm not saying I agree with the theory, just that it's not completley inconceivable.

 

[mr underhill]

dragons....

but id rather be a balrog if only because id be smaller and more agile.. but only if balrogs have wings...

if they had no wings id be a dragon..

 

[Turin]

I think theres a post about whether balrogs had wings in the Hall of Fire or another forum.