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Since humans can't pronounce their real names, they habitually take - while conversing with humans via a special device - the name of a prominent past human scientist (the book's main dragon protagonist calls himself 'Sir Isaac Newton'). Heinlein, Between Planets (1951): the sentient inhabitants of Venus are huge flightless dragons, who are described as highly intelligent with an enormous aptitude for scientific research, who are very warm and friendly to humans. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham (1949): Chrysophylax Dives.

Ruth Stiles Gannett, My Father's Dragon (1948): a young dragon rescued by a little boy from its abusive animal masters.

See also dragons listed at Dragon (Middle-earth). Tolkien's dragons are very intelligent and can cast spells over mortals. Contrary to most old folklore and literature, J.

Smaug the Golden ( The Hobbit, 1937): Smaug is a classic, European-type dragon deeply magical, hoards treasure and burns innocent towns.

Scatha the Worm ( The Return of the King, Appendix A.II, 1955).

Ancalagon the Black, who is the largest dragon of Middle-Earth ( The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954 The Silmarillion, 1977).Glaurung is described as the Father of Dragons in Tolkien's legendarium, and the first of the Urulóki, the Fire-drakes of Angband (first introduced in The Silmarillion, 1977 also appears in The Children of Húrin).Lewis reiterates the notion of cannibalistic dragons in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (see below). The Guide explains that dragons always live alone because they have become dragons by eating their own kind. He recalls eating his wife, saying, 'worm grows not to dragon till he eats worm', a loose translation of the Latin saying, Serpens, nisi serpentem comederit, non fit draco. The Northern dragon is so greedy that his anxiety for his gold hardly lets him sleep. Lewis, The Pilgrim's Regress (1933): the cold Northern dragon, slain by John, and the hot Southern dragon, slain by Vertue. Drinks petrol ('that's what does a dragon good, sir') and, at his own request, is eventually transformed by the king into the first aeroplane. Nesbit, The Last of the Dragons (1925): the last dragon on earth, who is tired of being expected to fight a prince for a princess, and becomes the princess's pet instead. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, ' Dragon: the Old Potter's Tale' (1919): a vague shadowy image which observers believe is a dragon ascending to heaven.

Frank Baum, Land of Oz series (1900): dragons appear in Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908), Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), and The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918). Kenneth Grahame, The Reluctant Dragon (1898): A dragon who does not want to act like a dragon.īy publication date of first installment in a series.William Morris, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (1877): Fafnir.Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876): Fafner.Lewis Carroll, ' Jabberwocky' in Through the Looking-Glass (1871): The Jabberwock, a fearsome dragonlike beast with 'jaws that bite', 'claws that catch', and 'eyes of flame.'.Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, ' The Two Brothers' (1812): A seven-headed dragon who demands maidens in one of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Marie Catherine d'Aulnoy, The Green Serpent (1698): A handsome king turned into a green dragon by enchantment.Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus (1604): The dragons that draw Faustus's chariot.Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590): Unnamed dragon slain by Redcrosse knight (Book 1, Canto 11-12).

She has been depicted in Russian art of the 18th century as a woman's head on a dragon's body. When confronted, she turns into a dragon and flees.

Jacques de Longuyon, Les Voeux du Paon (1312): Melusine, a beautiful woman who seems faithful but refuses to take communion in church.

Amadis de Gaula (14th century): Endriago, a monster Amadis battles.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (14th century): The ' worms' Sir Gawain battles.

Völsunga saga (late 13th century): Fáfnir.

Fáfnismál in the Poetic Edda (by 13th century): Fáfnir.

Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (c.

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (c.1136): the dragons in the underground lake whose fighting upsets Uther Pendragon's tower, as revealed by Merlin.

Life of Efflamm (late 11th-12th century): The dragon defeated by Efflam and Arthur.

Beowulf (8th - 11th century): The unnamed dragon from the end of the Old English epic, which dies by the combined efforts of Wiglaf and Beowulf.

George slaying the dragon, as in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend.

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