01-06-2005, 09:46 PM | #41 |
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how could you possibly like smaug? i mean, hes an evil dragon, not a nice dragon like the ones in all those other fanatasy books
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01-22-2005, 07:56 PM | #42 |
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It is precisely because he is evil, and has such an interesting personality to boot that I like the characterization of Smaug. I was not sad to read of his death, but I really enjoyed the way he acted in life. I'm alway disappointed when dragons are made into good, and "helpful" creatures. I like them bad and dangerous.
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01-22-2005, 07:59 PM | #43 |
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its not the evil evil of Sauron or Morgoth,
Smaug has a sort of fun evil, if you know what i mean! |
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01-23-2005, 01:43 PM | #47 |
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evil is better then nice dragons, nice dragons are fake dragons
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01-23-2005, 02:03 PM | #48 |
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I belive there are good dragons who is cool too. I don't have an example, but I will not say a dragon has to be bad to be cool.
But hey. Anyway, eagles beats those poor oh-look-I-can-blow-flames up where the sun seldom shine. Long live the Eagles!
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in Patricia C Wrede's books, the dragons are good (or at least not evil ), and they are still cool
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01-23-2005, 02:13 PM | #50 |
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which books would those be? and i meant good like in the the new Cornelia Funke book, Dragonrider i think it is.
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the enchanted forest chronicles
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