Where do dragons come from? - Page 2

Captain Stern · 02-05-2002, 06:50 PM

Ahhh, it would appear you're right Lightice, here's the passage:

Quote:

'It has been said that Dragon fire could melt and consume the rings of power, but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough; nor was there ever any dragon, not even Ancalagon the Black, who could have harmed the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself.'

bropous · 02-06-2002, 07:16 PM

Ah. Good call. I remembered the part about "not now any dragon left on earth" but not the part about Ancalagon himself not being able to destroy the One Ring.

02-06-2002, 07:16 PM	#22
bropous EIDRIORCQWSDAKLMED DCWWTIWOATTOPWFIO Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Littleton, CO Posts: 1,176	Ah. Good call. I remembered the part about "not now any dragon left on earth" but not the part about Ancalagon himself not being able to destroy the One Ring. __________________ "...[The Lord of the Rings] is to exemplify most clearly a recurrent theme: the place in 'world politics' of the unforeseen and unforeseeable acts of will, and deeds of virtue of the apparently small, ungreat, fogotten in the places of the Wise and Great (good as well as evil). A moral of the whole (after the primary symbolism of the Ring, as the will to mere power, seeking to make itself objective by physical force and mechanism, and so also inevitably by lies) is the obvious one that without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless." Letters of JRR Tolkien, page 160.

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