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

Which is your favorite big bad creature?

  • Balrog

    Votes: 31 41.9%
  • Dragon

    Votes: 29 39.2%
  • Giant Spiders

    Votes: 8 10.8%
  • Trolls

    Votes: 6 8.1%

  • Total voters
    74
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.
 
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...
 
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 :rolleyes:, and those quotes.
 
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.
 
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?
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 

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