well i checked it in the encyclopedia of arda and it says that smaug was the last of the great fire drakes but wasnt the last fire drake. we no that hes not the last fire drake coz gandalf refers to fire-breathing dragons in the time before the War of the Ring, nearly eighty years after Smaug's death. Tolkien even goes so far as to hint that some of these creatures might have survived to our own times.
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