Suzerain of Sheol
Desolation Denizen
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Well, Smaug was like... god, I don't even know, 1/1000th of Ancalagon, size-wise? Think about this: Thangorodrim, Morgoth's fortress, is 35,000 ft. high, carved from a mountain. That's 4.5 times the height of Mt. Everest. Ancalagon LEVELS the place when he's killed. His wingspan is so vast, that when he's flying, he blots out the sun over all of Beleriand. The beast is just ludicrously big.
I can't remember if Glaurung was cursed that way, but I don't think so. He's a different kind of dragon, anyway, the wingless, worm kind. Although he's called the Father of Dragons, Ancalagon is an order of magnitude more powerful than him. Actually, at that point in time, Ancalagon is probably the mightiest being in Arda short of the Valar, and even some of them might not have been able to match him in terms of combat prowess. The only guy in the War of Wrath who might have been able to take him on legitimately (Earendil is a walking Deus ex Machina, carrying several more DeMs), is Eonwe, the Herald of Manwe who led the Host of the Ainur, who, from what I gather, became some sort of tornado of living blades of light when he went into battle and Tolkien outright says that he's the best fighter to ever live.
...wow, am I a Tolkien nerd, or what?
Cold silence has a tendency
to atrophy any sense of compassion
between supposed lovers.
Between supposed brothers.
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Posted 05-26-2011, 11:36 PM
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