Mechanical Monsters at the Fall of Gondolin?

[HerenIstarion]

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Originally Posted by jallanite

That they were only seen at that time would mean, in this new context, the time of the end of the First Age, not merely the time of the fall of Gondolin.

But different kinds of dragons were seen as much later as the end of the Third Age (namely Smaug). And he was not only survival, for:

I don't see that this will help us much, said Thorin disappointedly after a glance. I remember the Mountain well enough and the lands about it. And I know where Mirkwood is, and the Withered Heath where the great dragons bred;

The Hobbit, p 14

So, great dragons still bred by the end of the Third age, which contradicts the statement that they were only seen by the end of the First