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Source? Treebeard said Morgoth created trolls in mockery of Ents. Thats even said in The Barrow wrights essay about Olog-hai. About Dragons, I swear I must have seen it somewhere on this site, its the only Tolkien site I go to.
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True, but what does mockery mean? As I have understood it, 'mock' doesn't mean 'created from', it means 'tease', 'make fun of' (bad words for it, I know, but I can't come up with anything better. The problem with not having english as a first language [img]smilies/rolleyes.gif[/img] ). Back to the dragons, I can't remember ever having read that they were created in mockery of eagles, and it doesn't seem very likely as the first dragons didn't have wings.
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Back to the subject of dragons breeding. I think Morgoth created dragons one by one, as you see, he kind of "Improved" his model as he went on, to upgrade them, see how he started with Glaurung and then made winged dragons later, as he needed them.
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For one thing, Morgoth didn't have the power to give life to anything, he corrupted things that already were. Thus, there must have been something alive that he could corrupt (my guess would be maiar). Second, dragons do indeed grow. As you may remember, Glaurong wasn't fully matured when the Dagor Bragolach started, one of the reasons why the attack didn't succeed. In the attack of Nargothrond, however, he was back (possibly in black) as the good ol' chap we all know (all this is taken from my own rusty memory only, have patience if some of it is wrong [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]).
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It says that there are a small amount of dragons left alone for a few hundred (i'm just guessing here) years, don't you think they'd reproduce and become a great army again? I know most of you are thinking, "maybe they killed all the females" but if I was killing great dragons, i'm not gonna stop and check the
plumbing to find out if i've killed all the females.
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Who says they needed any female to reproduce? [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img]
[ August 27, 2003: Message edited by: Falagar ]
[ August 27, 2003: Message edited by: Falagar ]