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Old 07-31-2002, 09:03 AM   #16
Aiwendil
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About the devising new dragons for the attack on Gondolin, I just wonder if the time that elapsed between Maeglin's plan to Melkor is long enough for the creation of such dragons. Do we have a time prediction of how long it take to breed a dragon?
That's an excellent point. If the dragons are no longer made of metal, can we still speak of 'devising' them? Or must they instead be 'bred', a far longer process that could not have been achieved between Maeglin's treachery and the fall of Gondolin? If we decide on the latter, then we need to rethink FG-D01 and FG-D02.

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I'm not sure if the "of iron" is going to be used in the revised version of FOG.
No, that was just a fictitious sample of writing in the Q30 style intended to show that if the mechanical dragons had been retained at that point, the text could easily have said so.
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