01-22-2004, 03:30 AM | #21 |
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I've never met a dragon, but seeing as their mythical creatures with huge wings and powerfull claws and inpenetrable scales, i think there cool
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01-23-2004, 03:50 AM | #22 |
Hobbit
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yeah, me too. I don't hate them, even if they're evil...
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01-25-2004, 11:58 AM | #23 |
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I read somewere that Dragons were once good but were corrupted into Morgoths service like the Balrog maiars and Sauron. It said that maybe Dragons were Maiar aswell but i dont think so.
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02-15-2004, 04:57 PM | #24 |
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I love dragons. They're such beautiful and graceful creatures.
Plus they come in handy when you wish to BBQ that certain annoying enemy that has just gone too far
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02-16-2004, 09:55 PM | #25 |
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Two items on dragons, a poem by C. S. Lewis and a related comment by JRRT.
alliterative poem by CSL, (Rehabilitations, p. 122), "We were talking of dragons, | Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. | The big workman Who had sat silent | and sucked his pipe All the evening, | from his empty mug with gleaming eye | glanced towards us; 'I seen 'em myself', | he said fiercely." __________________________________ In The Letters Of J.R.R. Tolkien, #300: "The lines which Jack gives as examples are not unfortunately entirely accurate examples of Old English metrical devices. The occasion is entirely fictitious. I have never seen a dragon, nor ever seen a man who said that he has. I don't wish to see either. A remote source of Jack's lines may be this: I remember Jack telling me a story of Brightman, the distinguished ecclesiastical scholar, who used to sit quietly in Common Room saying nothing except on rare occasions. Jack said that there was a discussion of dragons one night and at the end Brightman's voice was heard to say, 'I have seen a dragon.' Silence. 'Where was that?' he was asked. 'On the Mount of Olives,' he said. He relapsed into silence and never before his death explained what he meant."
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03-04-2004, 12:40 PM | #26 |
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Liking dragons or not seems to depend on your perspective. I actually liked Smaug alot, after all he was a good villian. Of course I also take my overall dragon opinions from other sources too. Such as Dragonlance where not all dragons were the same, or the Dragonriders of Pern which gave yet another perspective.
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