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Dragons & Great Beasts — Fire-breathing serpents, cunning enough to talk and to lie.
Race overviewShowing 5 of 5 figures in Dragons
Smaug
Dragons & Great Beasts · Erebor
The great dragon who took the Lonely Mountain, hoarded its treasure, and was slain by Bard the Bowman.
Glaurung
Dragons & Great Beasts · Angband
The first of the great dragons and the “Father of Dragons”, who fought in the Wars of Beleriand.
Ancalagon the Black
Dragons & Great Beasts · Angband
The greatest of Morgoth’s winged dragons, destroyed by Eärendil in the War of Wrath.
Scatha
Dragons & Great Beasts · The Grey Mountains
A long-worm dragon of the Grey Mountains slain by Fram of the Éothéod.
Chrysophylax Dives
Dragons & Great Beasts · The Grey Mountains
The dragon of Tolkien’s comic tale “Farmer Giles of Ham”.