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Yes but Ray, your argument is beginning to look contrived.
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Well, I don't bother explaining magic tbh; they are magical creature, I would expect their expression in the physical realm to be more than ordinary, starting from their anatomy if you will.
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My point is that Tolkien describes long, crawling, serpent-like creatures and that artists typically miss or ignore this.
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Well, I don't know, if his own picture shows his first and famous dragon as having feet, then all the rest is not out of bounds tbh
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But the images you've provided are not of ME dragons anyway, it seems...
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I agree, I chose to be more liberal in my selection of images, hence the subforum. Only to serve the purpose of the thread! Also, there are lots of common streaks in all the awesome visualizations of dragons, including Tolkien's
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What is the collective term for dragons anyway?
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Dragonflight, wing of dragons, or, according to Anne McCaffrey, a weyr of dragons. My favorite is dragonflight ^^
