Tolkien's best Dragon - The Barrow-Downs Discussion Forum

littlemanpoet · 03-13-2002, 05:30 AM

Which do you think is Tolkien's best Dragon:
Ancalagon the Black, Glaurung, Scatha, Smaug, or Chrysophylax (Farmer Giles of Ham)?

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Gayalondiel · 03-13-2002, 05:52 AM

Well, I don't know Chrysophylax, but from the others i'd say Smaug. Maybe i'm biased cos he's the first one i knew, but he has more character than the others, and he was intelligent too, he understood Bilbo's riddling. (ok, so there was the hole in his armour, but otherwise he was smart!) Plus he's more traditionally dragonish than the others, hoardes of gold etc etc. (Dragons are a favourite of mine, no matter what i'm reading. If only they were real...) [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

obloquy · 03-13-2002, 09:31 AM

Glaurung, definitely. I haven't read Farmer Giles, and I barely consider Smaug a 'canon' character, due to the nature of The Hobbit. Glaurung's malice was just chilling.

03-13-2002, 12:28 PM

I think that for me, the best is Smaug.

Kuruharan · 03-13-2002, 03:06 PM

Of those you listed Chrysophylax because he's so funny.

But in Middle earth I'd have to say that Glaurung had the most personality.

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If only they were real...

Are you insane? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Everybody who hasn't read Farmer Giles of Ham needs to do so ASAP. It's a laugh riot. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Keeper of Dol Guldur · 03-13-2002, 03:45 PM

I'd have to say Scatha the Worm. He must have been pretty important since all of the northerners, and Grey Mountain dwarves wanted a piece of him.

03-13-2002, 03:54 PM

I would say that Glaurung, the actual first dragon of Midlle Earth, he dominated the mind of Túrin Turambar, one of the greatest dark heroes of The Silmarillion, he could have been father to a line of Half elves, just as Tuor, Glaurung is great because he shows a sign of nobility that few dragons have, he´s the king, just that.

obloquy · 03-13-2002, 05:58 PM

Scatha's a nobody. We've got about one paragraph of information on him and that's it. That's not indicative of a 'great' dragon. Dwarves wanted his hoard? Big deal, Dwarves want everyone's hoard.

Gorin Icearms · 03-13-2002, 06:09 PM

I'd have to say it's a draw between Smaug and Chrysophylax. They are really the only 2 dragons that have depth to their personality. All the other dragons are usually just described as cunning and evil. Smaug for example enjoyed riddles, town-baiting, and eating maidens. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Chrysophylax was a

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"cunning, inquisitive, greedy (no suprise there), well armored but not overly bold dragon."

He and Smaug were the only 2 (that I know of) that have a real personality.

*Oops, heh. I forgot about Glaurung. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

[ March 13, 2002: Message edited by: Gorin Icearms ]

Ahanarion · 03-13-2002, 08:14 PM

Glaurung the Golden father of all dragons. The question is who is the mother?

Orald · 03-13-2002, 09:29 PM

Ancalagon is only mentioned in the War of Wrath, so the amount of lines concerning each dragon does not necessarily denote how great they are. The lines from War of Wrath read as thus:

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Then, seeing that his hosts were overthrown and his power dispersed, Morgoth quailed, and he dared not to come forth himself. But he loosed upon his foes the last desperate assault that he had prepared, and out of the pits of Angband there issued the winged dragons, that had not before been seen; and so sudden and ruinous was the onset of that dreadful fleet that the host of the Valar was driven back, for the coming of the dragons was with great thunder, and lightning, and a tempest of fire.
But Eärendil came, shining with white flame, and about Vingilot were gathered all the great birds of heaven and Thorondor was their captain, and there was battle in the air all the day and through a dark night of doubt. Before the rising of the sun Eärendil slew Ancalagon the Black, the mightiest of the dragon-host, and cast him from the sky; and he fell upon the towers of Thangorodrim, and they were broken in his ruin.

Now that is a pretty big dragon that can crush the peaks of Thangorodrim. Plus it does say he was the mightiest of the dragon-host, and in the mightiest of the winged-dragons.

Gayalondiel · 03-14-2002, 06:35 AM

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Are you insane?

yes i am, very much so [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] I'd LOVE a pet dragon, just a little one of my own that'll grow up to love me... and scare the neighbours... and ensure that i never get mugged ever again. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

Rosa Underhill · 03-14-2002, 09:54 AM

Chrysophylax is a riot but I still like Smaug the best. He scared me and that's not easy to do. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] He was just so...creepy yet so cool!

obloquy · 03-14-2002, 01:30 PM

Did you read the little bit on Scatha, Durelan? Apparently he had a hoard.

Ancalagon appeared in a battle as the mightiest of the dragon-host. Big difference.

Keeper of Dol Guldur · 03-14-2002, 05:03 PM

true, little is mentioned, but I'd bet that the tales of Smeagols people, and the Rohirrim and Northmen told a mighty tale. Plus, all the other dragons were talked about too much.

Keeper of Dol Guldur · 03-14-2002, 05:05 PM

Maybe because they were actually important...but Scatha I imagined looking like the Craw wurm from Magic:The Gathering.

obloquy · 03-14-2002, 05:50 PM

Well, I guess those non-existant tales do make Scatha Tolkien's 'best' Dragon. What do you think littlemanpoet meant by 'best'? Surely it wasn't "which one could have been the coolest if someone had told really cool stories about him." You just thought it would be neat to mention a Dragon that most people appropriately pay little attention to. It's like declaring that Garulf was the Rohirrim's best horseman.

Kuruharan · 03-14-2002, 06:41 PM

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It's like declaring that Garulf was the Rohirrim's best horseman.

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] LOL! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

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yes i am, very much so I'd LOVE a pet dragon, just a little one of my own that'll grow up to love me... and scare the neighbours... and ensure that i never get mugged ever again.

Hmm...doesn't sound like a half bad idea now that you mention it.

Orald · 03-15-2002, 12:34 AM

Obloquy, I agree that Scatha isn't the biggest baddest shut yo mouth in Middle-Earth, I am just saying there could have been another dragon not even mentioned, that was stronger than one like Smaug.

I did not Mention Ancalagon first, twas LittleManPoet and if you were referring to Scatha, well, I did not mention him at all.

[img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

littlemanpoet · 03-15-2002, 04:59 AM

What a riot. Glad I asked this one. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Thanks, Keeper of Dol Guldur, for adding Scatha to the list. I'd forgotten about him.

By "best" I meant whatever number of traits you think makes the best dragon.

Chrysophylax gets my vote. Gorin Icearms' quote summarizes why. And if you don't know Chrysophylax, read Farmer Giles of Ham. It's the laugh-riotest thing. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

So far the tally is:
Smaug: 3 1/2 votes
Glaurung: 3 votes
Chrysophylax: 2 1/2 votes
Scatha: 1 vote
Anacalagon: 1 vote

Anti-votes: 1 against Scatha. Did I miss any?

[ March 30, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ]

obloquy · 03-15-2002, 09:47 AM

I wasn't talking to you, Durelan. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I happen to value your posts and I am glad you hang around the advanced boards.

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Belegfanaion · 04-26-2002, 03:38 PM

I don't have ANY explanation, so don't ask (watch, everybody'll ask just cuz I said that!) but my favorite Dragon was Smaug. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img]

Dior · 04-26-2002, 10:12 PM

All you people who put Smaug are crazy. I mean, he was slain by a single arrow(I don't care if it was a sacred black one), and what did he do but take over Erebor?

Also, notice the people who have the most experience say Glaurung. I place my vote alongside.

Nazgûl Queen · 04-27-2002, 02:57 AM

<center><font color="red">I love all the dragons but I'd have to say Ancalagon because he is so big and black and powerful and can fly...

At one of my other boards I got a Dragon Egg which is going to hatch into a black dragon... I have christened him "Ancalagon" [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Maikadilwen · 04-27-2002, 05:39 AM

Yup, I too would say Ancalagon or Glaurung. Smaug is.....just cute. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

Nar · 04-27-2002, 10:44 AM

I have to go with Chrysophylax-- he has the most winning personality. Aside from being witty and clever, he's a sensible peace-loving coward-- if I actually encountered a dragon, that's exactly what I'd want in him (or her)-- so I'd survive the encounter! Furthermore, Chrysophylax ends up far more politically enlightened than the others, although this enlightenment is mainly owing to the business end of Farmer Giles' blunderbuss. He teams up with Giles, a member of the farming class, thereby enabling a populist hero to take the kingship. All those other dragons serve elitist tyrants. Only Chrysophylax is a good socialist dragon.

[ April 27, 2002: Message edited by: Nar ]

Marileangorifurnimaluim · 04-27-2002, 02:50 PM

I've always liked Ancalagon the Black, ever since I read Gandalf's mention of him in "The Shadow of the Past." A blast that could destroy even the rings of power (if not the one ring) - wow.

But personality-wise I like Smaug's cool intelligent arrogance the best. Glaurung is chilling, but petty in his mean-spiritness.

05-03-2002, 06:51 PM

I like ancalagon the black the most im not sure why ,but any way smaugs arrogance and not much brains but intelligent make him interseting but vague.

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one by one they take flight and above their
wings gold lays

Rinurion · 05-03-2002, 10:22 PM

Ancalagon the black was probably the most powerful of the dragons, due to his size, the fact he could fly, and the heat of his flames (id fancy him taiking out quite a few balrogs [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]).
But as for personality... well, id have to give that to smaug... as tolkien went to lengths to give us a good picture of him in the hobbit.

05-12-2002, 12:19 PM

All of you are CRAZY!!! Ancalagon the Black is by far the COOLEST dragon to ever exist!!! I mean, Ancalagon could have won the War of the Ring easily, if he hadn't been killed. He was big, mean, and nasty. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] I'll admit that Scatha and Glaurung were cool, too. But Ancalagon was the best. Oh, and Smaug was a wuss to be killed dso easily.

littlemanpoet · 05-13-2002, 07:49 AM

Latest tally:
Smaug: 5 1/2
Glaurung: 4 1/2
Chrysophylax: 3 1/2 (thanks Nar) since I started this I get an extra vote: 4 1/2 nya nya nya [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]
Scatha: 1 (still)
Ancalagon: 5 1/2 (like a late breaking horse)

It's Smaug and Ancalagon neck and neck with Glaurung one length back and Chrysophylax two lengths back and Scatha has stopped to smell the roses...

Feanor... · 05-14-2002, 09:46 AM

All the best reasons have already been put out so let me make it simple. ANCALAGON THE BLACK!!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img]

doug*platypus · 01-15-2003, 05:07 AM

My vote goes to Glaurang, for sheer malevolent evil.

Smaug the Magnificent was a great character, and not just a slimy groundworm, but what did he really achieve? Not as much as Big G. Not as much evil or horror. They're only Dwarves, after all!

Favourite name: Scatha the Worm.

Special mention: Ancalagon the Black, winner of the All Hype award.

Chrysophylax was just a little bit too reasonable. I like Tolkien's dragons because they are incarnations of great evil, as I think dragons should be. Not prissy little things with people flying around on their backs. Or something called Norbert.

Aragost · 01-15-2003, 09:33 PM

Tolkien's best dragon was Smaug. Most dragons had a soft underside. Smaug had strong armor on his stomache with the exeption of the small hole in the upper left part.

Cold Drakes were also really cool.

Inderjit Sanghera · 01-16-2003, 02:56 AM

Ancalagon. He was said to be the greatest dragon ever-Smaug was a *****cat compared to him. Glaurung was O.K, if a bit overweight. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

[ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Inderjit Sanghera ]

Sapphire_Flame · 01-17-2003, 11:08 AM

The best dragon is Smaug, hands down!! He has a fiery (haha) personality, and is the first one I read about, so I might be biased. *And* he's red, and red is the best color. One whole vote for Smaug right here!!!!!!

Oh, and I give half a vote to Chrysophylax, 'cause he's cool too. If you haven't read Farmer Giles of Ham, do so now!!!!

Also, add me to the list of peeps who wants a pet dragon!!! Kudos to Dragon-lovers!!!!

[ January 17, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ]

Hilde Bracegirdle · 01-17-2003, 11:45 AM

Add another vote for Glaurung.

littlemanpoet · 01-17-2003, 09:41 PM

[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Hee hee! What fun. Hokay doke. Latest tally:

Smaug: 7 1/2
Glaurung: 6
Chrysophylax: 3 1/2
Scatha: 1
Ancalagon: 7 1/2

It's Smaug and Ancalagon neck and neck with Glaurung a length and a half behind....

Galadrie1 · 01-17-2003, 10:04 PM

I can't let my dear Chrysophylax down. My vote's for him. Alas! If I'd only read Farmer Giles sooner I'd have a much cooler nickname here at the 'Downs. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img]

Could I also get half a vote in for Smaug?

EDIT: What a not-very-funny coincidence: my votes are the reverse of Sapphire's.

[ January 17, 2003: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ]

Inderjit Sanghera · 01-18-2003, 09:30 AM

No. It should be one vote each. I vote for Ancalagon. *Hopes no one notices his previous vote* [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

03-13-2002, 05:30 AM	#1
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Tolkien's best Dragon Which do you think is Tolkien's best Dragon: Ancalagon the Black, Glaurung, Scatha, Smaug, or Chrysophylax (Farmer Giles of Ham)? [ May 14, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ] [ May 14, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ]

03-13-2002, 05:52 AM	#2
Gayalondiel Wight Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: My own little wierd, wierd world Posts: 133	Well, I don't know Chrysophylax, but from the others i'd say Smaug. Maybe i'm biased cos he's the first one i knew, but he has more character than the others, and he was intelligent too, he understood Bilbo's riddling. (ok, so there was the hole in his armour, but otherwise he was smart!) Plus he's more traditionally dragonish than the others, hoardes of gold etc etc. (Dragons are a favourite of mine, no matter what i'm reading. If only they were real...) [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ Not another ****ing Elf! ~C.S.Lewis

03-13-2002, 03:45 PM	#6
Keeper of Dol Guldur Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 315, CNY Boys and girls. Posts: 405	I'd have to say Scatha the Worm. He must have been pretty important since all of the northerners, and Grey Mountain dwarves wanted a piece of him. __________________ "I come from yonder...Have you seen Baggins? Baggins has left, he is coming. He is not far away. I wish to find him. If he passes will you tell me? I will come back with gold." - Khamul the Easterling

03-13-2002, 08:14 PM	#10
Ahanarion Haunting Spirit Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Tirion upon Tuna Posts: 94	Glaurung the Golden father of all dragons. The question is who is the mother? __________________ Ohtari i Noldor Hosta!

03-14-2002, 09:54 AM	#13
Rosa Underhill Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Waymeet, the Shire Posts: 297	Chrysophylax is a riot but I still like Smaug the best. He scared me and that's not easy to do. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] He was just so...creepy yet so cool! __________________ WWAHD? (What would a Hobbit do?)

03-13-2002, 09:31 AM	#3
obloquy Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: WA Posts: 939	Glaurung, definitely. I haven't read Farmer Giles, and I barely consider Smaug a 'canon' character, due to the nature of The Hobbit. Glaurung's malice was just chilling.

03-13-2002, 12:28 PM	#4
Rohirrim Guest Posts: n/a	I think that for me, the best is Smaug.

03-13-2002, 03:54 PM	#7
aeglaer Guest Posts: n/a	I would say that Glaurung, the actual first dragon of Midlle Earth, he dominated the mind of Túrin Turambar, one of the greatest dark heroes of The Silmarillion, he could have been father to a line of Half elves, just as Tuor, Glaurung is great because he shows a sign of nobility that few dragons have, he´s the king, just that.

03-13-2002, 05:58 PM	#8
obloquy Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: WA Posts: 939	Scatha's a nobody. We've got about one paragraph of information on him and that's it. That's not indicative of a 'great' dragon. Dwarves wanted his hoard? Big deal, Dwarves want everyone's hoard.

03-14-2002, 01:30 PM	#14
obloquy Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: WA Posts: 939	Did you read the little bit on Scatha, Durelan? Apparently he had a hoard. Ancalagon appeared in a battle as the mightiest of the dragon-host. Big difference.

03-14-2002, 05:03 PM	#15
Keeper of Dol Guldur Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 315, CNY Boys and girls. Posts: 405	true, little is mentioned, but I'd bet that the tales of Smeagols people, and the Rohirrim and Northmen told a mighty tale. Plus, all the other dragons were talked about too much. __________________ "I come from yonder...Have you seen Baggins? Baggins has left, he is coming. He is not far away. I wish to find him. If he passes will you tell me? I will come back with gold." - Khamul the Easterling

03-14-2002, 05:05 PM	#16
Keeper of Dol Guldur Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: 315, CNY Boys and girls. Posts: 405	Maybe because they were actually important...but Scatha I imagined looking like the Craw wurm from Magic:The Gathering. __________________ "I come from yonder...Have you seen Baggins? Baggins has left, he is coming. He is not far away. I wish to find him. If he passes will you tell me? I will come back with gold." - Khamul the Easterling

03-14-2002, 05:50 PM	#17
obloquy Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: WA Posts: 939	Well, I guess those non-existant tales do make Scatha Tolkien's 'best' Dragon. What do you think littlemanpoet meant by 'best'? Surely it wasn't "which one could have been the coolest if someone had told really cool stories about him." You just thought it would be neat to mention a Dragon that most people appropriately pay little attention to. It's like declaring that Garulf was the Rohirrim's best horseman.

03-15-2002, 12:34 AM	#19
Orald Shadow of Malice Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: right behind you Posts: 843	Obloquy, I agree that Scatha isn't the biggest baddest shut yo mouth in Middle-Earth, I am just saying there could have been another dragon not even mentioned, that was stronger than one like Smaug. I did not Mention Ancalagon first, twas LittleManPoet and if you were referring to Scatha, well, I did not mention him at all. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]

03-15-2002, 04:59 AM	#20
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	What a riot. Glad I asked this one. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Thanks, Keeper of Dol Guldur, for adding Scatha to the list. I'd forgotten about him. By "best" I meant whatever number of traits you think makes the best dragon. Chrysophylax gets my vote. Gorin Icearms' quote summarizes why. And if you don't know Chrysophylax, read Farmer Giles of Ham. It's the laugh-riotest thing. [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] So far the tally is: Smaug: 3 1/2 votes Glaurung: 3 votes Chrysophylax: 2 1/2 votes Scatha: 1 vote Anacalagon: 1 vote Anti-votes: 1 against Scatha. Did I miss any? [ March 30, 2002: Message edited by: littlemanpoet ]

03-15-2002, 09:47 AM	#21
obloquy Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: WA Posts: 939	I wasn't talking to you, Durelan. [img]smilies/smile.gif[/img] I happen to value your posts and I am glad you hang around the advanced boards. [ March 15, 2002: Message edited by: obloquy ]

04-26-2002, 03:38 PM	#22
Belegfanaion Animated Skeleton Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Rivendell Posts: 45	I don't have ANY explanation, so don't ask (watch, everybody'll ask just cuz I said that!) but my favorite Dragon was Smaug. [img]smilies/tongue.gif[/img] __________________ "'Hold it up!' said Gandalf. 'And look closely.' As Frodo did so, he now saw fine lines, finer than the finest pen-strokes, running along the ring, outside and inside: lines of fire that seemed to form the letters of a flowing script. They shone piercingly bright, and yet remote, as if out of a great depth. 'I cannot read the fiery letters,' said Frodo in a quavering voice. 'No,' said Gandalf, 'but I can. The letters are Elvish, of an ancient mode, but the language is that of Mordor, which I will not utter here. But this in the Common Tongue is what is said, close enough: One Ring to Bring them all and in the darkness bind them.'"

04-26-2002, 10:12 PM	#23
Dior Wight Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Doriath Posts: 242	All you people who put Smaug are crazy. I mean, he was slain by a single arrow(I don't care if it was a sacred black one), and what did he do but take over Erebor? Also, notice the people who have the most experience say Glaurung. I place my vote alongside. __________________ Goodbye everybody, I've got to go... Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth....

04-27-2002, 02:57 AM	#24
Nazgûl Queen Haunting Spirit Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Minas Morgul Posts: 75	<center><font color="red">I love all the dragons but I'd have to say Ancalagon because he is so big and black and powerful and can fly... At one of my other boards I got a Dragon Egg which is going to hatch into a black dragon... I have christened him "Ancalagon" [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ - The Nazgûl they were; the Ringwraiths, the Enemy's most terribly servants; darkness went with them and they cried with the voices of death -

04-27-2002, 05:39 AM	#25
Maikadilwen Summoner of Lost Souls Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: At home, with my Strongbow Posts: 521	Yup, I too would say Ancalagon or Glaurung. Smaug is.....just cute. [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ -"Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave. Our birth is nothing but our death begun."

04-27-2002, 10:44 AM	#26
Nar Wight Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 228	I have to go with Chrysophylax-- he has the most winning personality. Aside from being witty and clever, he's a sensible peace-loving coward-- if I actually encountered a dragon, that's exactly what I'd want in him (or her)-- so I'd survive the encounter! Furthermore, Chrysophylax ends up far more politically enlightened than the others, although this enlightenment is mainly owing to the business end of Farmer Giles' blunderbuss. He teams up with Giles, a member of the farming class, thereby enabling a populist hero to take the kingship. All those other dragons serve elitist tyrants. Only Chrysophylax is a good socialist dragon. [ April 27, 2002: Message edited by: Nar ]

04-27-2002, 02:50 PM	#27
Marileangorifurnimaluim Eerie Forest Spectre Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Buried in scrolls of fanfiction Posts: 798	I've always liked Ancalagon the Black, ever since I read Gandalf's mention of him in "The Shadow of the Past." A blast that could destroy even the rings of power (if not the one ring) - wow. But personality-wise I like Smaug's cool intelligent arrogance the best. Glaurung is chilling, but petty in his mean-spiritness. __________________ Deserves death! I daresay he does... And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them?

05-03-2002, 06:51 PM	#28
Eglaquelleiel the elf Guest Posts: n/a	I like ancalagon the black the most im not sure why ,but any way smaugs arrogance and not much brains but intelligent make him interseting but vague. --------------------- one by one they take flight and above their wings gold lays

05-03-2002, 10:22 PM	#29
Rinurion Animated Skeleton Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: NZ, the home of middle earth Posts: 36	Ancalagon the black was probably the most powerful of the dragons, due to his size, the fact he could fly, and the heat of his flames (id fancy him taiking out quite a few balrogs [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]). But as for personality... well, id have to give that to smaug... as tolkien went to lengths to give us a good picture of him in the hobbit. __________________ But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say, for into darkness fell his star, in Mordor where the shadows are.

05-12-2002, 12:19 PM	#30
shadowstalker Guest Posts: n/a	All of you are CRAZY!!! Ancalagon the Black is by far the COOLEST dragon to ever exist!!! I mean, Ancalagon could have won the War of the Ring easily, if he hadn't been killed. He was big, mean, and nasty. [img]smilies/evil.gif[/img] I'll admit that Scatha and Glaurung were cool, too. But Ancalagon was the best. Oh, and Smaug was a wuss to be killed dso easily.

05-13-2002, 07:49 AM	#31
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	Latest tally: Smaug: 5 1/2 Glaurung: 4 1/2 Chrysophylax: 3 1/2 (thanks Nar) since I started this I get an extra vote: 4 1/2 nya nya nya [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Scatha: 1 (still) Ancalagon: 5 1/2 (like a late breaking horse) It's Smaug and Ancalagon neck and neck with Glaurung one length back and Chrysophylax two lengths back and Scatha has stopped to smell the roses...

05-14-2002, 09:46 AM	#32
Feanor... Pile O'Bones Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 11	All the best reasons have already been put out so let me make it simple. ANCALAGON THE BLACK!!!!! [img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] __________________ Feanor was the mightiest in skill of word and of hand, more learned than his brothers; his spirit burned as a flame

01-15-2003, 05:07 AM	#33
doug*platypus Delver in the Deep Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Aotearoa Posts: 960	My vote goes to Glaurang, for sheer malevolent evil. Smaug the Magnificent was a great character, and not just a slimy groundworm, but what did he really achieve? Not as much as Big G. Not as much evil or horror. They're only Dwarves, after all! Favourite name: Scatha the Worm. Special mention: Ancalagon the Black, winner of the All Hype award. Chrysophylax was just a little bit too reasonable. I like Tolkien's dragons because they are incarnations of great evil, as I think dragons should be. Not prissy little things with people flying around on their backs. Or something called Norbert. __________________ But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name'.

01-15-2003, 09:33 PM	#34
Aragost Wight Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Arthedain Posts: 137	Tolkien's best dragon was Smaug. Most dragons had a soft underside. Smaug had strong armor on his stomache with the exeption of the small hole in the upper left part. Cold Drakes were also really cool. __________________ Where there's a whip there's a will

01-16-2003, 02:56 AM	#35
Inderjit Sanghera Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wolverhampton, England Posts: 716	Ancalagon. He was said to be the greatest dragon ever-Smaug was a *****cat compared to him. Glaurung was O.K, if a bit overweight. [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] [ January 16, 2003: Message edited by: Inderjit Sanghera ] __________________ “If I’m more of an influence on your son as a rapper then you are as a father then you've got to look at yourself as a parent” ~>Ice Cube. "Life is so beautiful"->Don Vito Corleone

01-17-2003, 11:08 AM	#36
Sapphire_Flame Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: The World That Never Was Posts: 1,232	The best dragon is Smaug, hands down!! He has a fiery (haha) personality, and is the first one I read about, so I might be biased. And he's red, and red is the best color. One whole vote for Smaug right here!!!!!! Oh, and I give half a vote to Chrysophylax, 'cause he's cool too. If you haven't read Farmer Giles of Ham, do so now!!!! Also, add me to the list of peeps who wants a pet dragon!!! Kudos to Dragon-lovers!!!! [ January 17, 2003: Message edited by: Sapphire_Flame ] __________________ The Hitchhiking Ghost

01-17-2003, 11:45 AM	#37
Hilde Bracegirdle Relic of Wandering Days Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: You'll See Perpetual Change. Posts: 1,480	Add another vote for Glaurung.

01-17-2003, 09:41 PM	#38
littlemanpoet Itinerant Songster Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Edge of Faerie Posts: 7,066	[img]smilies/biggrin.gif[/img] Hee hee! What fun. Hokay doke. Latest tally: Smaug: 7 1/2 Glaurung: 6 Chrysophylax: 3 1/2 Scatha: 1 Ancalagon: 7 1/2 It's Smaug and Ancalagon neck and neck with Glaurung a length and a half behind....

01-17-2003, 10:04 PM	#39
Galadrie1 Shade of Carn Dûm Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: The wrong place at the wrong time. Posts: 385	I can't let my dear Chrysophylax down. My vote's for him. Alas! If I'd only read Farmer Giles sooner I'd have a much cooler nickname here at the 'Downs. [img]smilies/frown.gif[/img] Could I also get half a vote in for Smaug? EDIT: What a not-very-funny coincidence: my votes are the reverse of Sapphire's. [ January 17, 2003: Message edited by: Galadrie1 ] __________________ "For this is what your folk would call magic, I believe; though I do not understand clearly what they mean; and they seem to use the same word of the deceits of the Enemy. But this, if you will, is the magic of Galadriel."

01-18-2003, 09:30 AM	#40
Inderjit Sanghera Ghost Prince of Cardolan Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Wolverhampton, England Posts: 716	No. It should be one vote each. I vote for Ancalagon. Hopes no one notices his previous vote [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] __________________ “If I’m more of an influence on your son as a rapper then you are as a father then you've got to look at yourself as a parent” ~>Ice Cube. "Life is so beautiful"->Don Vito Corleone