Dragons in Middle-earth
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J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium features dragons based on those of European legend, but going beyond them in having personalities of their own, such as the wily Smaug, who has features of
Sigurd kills the dragon Fafnir. Wood-carving in Hylestad Stave Church, 12th–13th century. Smaug resembles Fafnir in several respects.
Smaug in fan art
Smaug
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Smaug is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal of the quest. Powerful and fearsome, he invaded the Dwar
Dragons in Middle-earth
…Middle-earth legendarium features dragons based on those of European legend, but going beyond them in having personalities of their own, such as the wily Smaug, who has features of both Fafnir and the Beowulf dragon. Dragons appear in the early stories of The Book of Lost Tales, including the mechanical…
Beowulf fights his dragon to the death in a 1908 illustration by Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton.
Detail of wampum bead girdle
A somewhat cat-like Smaug as seen in the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film of The Hobbit