Editing Middle Earth characters (section)

==[[Dragons]]==
The classic, archetypal dragon. Created by Morgoth in the First Age as his most powerful agents. Sub-Types include:
*'''Cold-drakes''': Lesser Dragons who are unable to breath fire, but they are still a couple tons of muscle and scales and are more numerous than the proper Fire-drake Dragons. Those that remain live in the frozen wasteland of Forodwaith in the desolate north of Middle Earth, although even then they still fuck with the Dwarves who lived in the Grey Mountains, even managing to infest the valley of the Withered Heath.
*'''Sea-serpents''': Also known as Fish-dragons, little is known about this particular breed of dragons except what they were called by, and that Morgoth had also created them. It can be devised that they were either intended to fight Cirdan and the Elven ships in Beleriand; to battle the Host of the West, which would have to cross the ocean; to contest with Ulmo, just as the winged-dragons contested with Manwë and his eagles; or some combination of these possibilities.
*'''Spark-dragons''': Sometimes known as Shock-dragons. Nothing is known about them save for this Elven nomenclature.

As for named Dragons of note:

* '''Glaurung''': The Father of all Dragons, and a [[Nagash| thoroughly sadistic prick]] whose main claim to infamy is hypnotizing and cursing Turin into marrying and knocking up his own sister for sick kicks before his death.  He is slain by Turin's cursed sword, Gurthang, but gets the last laugh by revealing Turin's marriage is incestuous with his dying words. 

* '''The Fire-drake of Gondolin''': An unnamed Dragon that partook in the Sacking of Gondolin. Big enough to carry ''multiple Balrogs'' on its back. Its physiology and its being unleashed on Gondolin alongside the Balrogs suggests it may have been meant to be Glaurung's replacement, but it too was presumably eventually slain (although its death is never outright shown).

* '''Scatha the Wyrm''': So named for his long, serpentine body, he was a treasure-hoarder like Smaug. Got killed by an ancestor of Eorl the Young named Fram after the local men and Dwarves got sick of him stealing from them.

* '''Gostir''': This dragon is only known by name and was one of Morgoth's dragons. Nothing else is written about him, not even what kind of dragon he was! However, considering that ''Gostir'' is Sindarin for "Terrible Sight", he must have been either one extremely ugly or especially scary-looking dragon. Alternatively, if you interept the "thîr" comprisant component of his Sindarin name to refer not to his face, but instead his expression as per one of the alternative definitions of that word; then Gostir might have been a dragon that had an especially potent hypnotic or mesmerizing stare like that of Glaurung.

* '''Ancalagon the Black''': Morgoth's ultimate Dragon, he saw action during the epic War of Wrath and fell during the battle despite initially [[Awesome|beating back the entire host of the Valar]]. Also one of ''the'' biggest fucking Dragons in all of fiction, as multiple "Dragon size comparisons" on the internet have shown. Seriously, this guy was the size of ''mountains'', and his death destroyed some too when he fell from the sky. How in the heck the good guys were ever able to beat Morgoth with this dude on his side is anyone's guess. 

* '''Smaug''': The last, and by far the most famous, of all the Middle-Earth Dragons, he lived into the Third Age where he took over Erebor, slaughtered the Dwarves there, and helped himself to their treasure. He lorded over the mountain and its hoard for many years until a company of Dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield and aided by Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the Grey finally coaxed him out of his lair, leading to his eventual death when Bard the Bowman shot an arrow that hit him in his one weak-spot. Probably the single most iconic part of The Hobbit, and a highlight of both movie adaptations (yes, even the widely disliked Hobbit trilogy).