Dragons are mythical beasts. Dragonlore varies from culture to culture and from tale to tale.
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What about the waste?
Was there ever a definitive description of how dragons and fire lizards defecate and what was done about it? I have read some descriptions saying that they do so between, while other sources stated ...
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Differences between dragon, drake, wyrm and wyvern
In many different books including Dragonlance, Tales from the Sword Coast, Magic: The Gathering and other similar fantasy series, I've seen references to dragons, drakes, wyrms and wyvern (which may ...
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Young adult novel with dragons, magic, and ends weirdly
In elementary school, between '92 and '96, I read a young adult fantasy novel that has eluded my internet searches to this day. I don't remember the plot, but I think it had the word 'Rainbow' in the ...
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Were there any talking dragons in Harry Potter world?
Charlie Weasley had some successes in his tries to train dragons, at least Ron claims that.
But does history of Potterverse remember of any dragon with ability to talk or to communicate with people ...
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What is the background for the phrase “literary trend for shit books about talking dragons” in connection with Wales?
On 16th of March, 2013, Wales won with England 30-3 in Six Nations tournament.
Dailymash commented it this way:
ENGLAND deliberately lost the Six Nations to Wales as part of a plan
to boost the ...
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What relation/link is there between Glaurung and Smaug, if any?
Is there any relation or link (by blood or legend or anything) between the dragon Glaurung, in Children of Hurin, and Smaug in the Hobbit?
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How long do the dragons of Middle Earth live?
Do the Dragons of Tolkien's works die a natural death, or are they like the elves and can only be killed in battle?
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Why did Smaug gather a treasure of gold and other precious objects?
In The Hobbit, the Dwarves, Bilbo and Gandalf are on a mission to rob Smaug. But why did he have so much to steal from? He's a Dragon! He is not the kind of dragon that eats gold and gems. He doesn't ...
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Why does Spike eat gems in My Little Pony Friendship is Magic?
In My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Spike is a Dragon that eat gemstones. Here's some proof for the distrustful:
Maybe it's me that don't know a lot about the Dragons lore, but it's the first ...
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What was the fate of Ancalagon the Black?
In The Fellowship of the Ring The Shadow of the Past, Gandalf is discussing methods of destroying the ring, wherein he mentions this:
It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume ...
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Early 90s YA novel about a kid into special FX who meets an (animatronic, yet possibly alive) dragon
All i can remember are a few specifics, would love to rediscover the title. Haven't been able to Google up anything.
The kid (~13) made special effects models as a hobby (only one i can remember is ...
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Looking for a Book about people Called Talents
I remember something about people gaining powers from areas that were once inhabited by dragons. The main character can talk to animals and is followed around by a wolf; her brother can influence ...
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Book about Dragons Ending (Turning to stone)
I read a book once that was some variation on a fantasy setting with magic and such, but the one factor I recall about it was that the dragons in this world could End - essentially, they turned into ...
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What fantasy book has a character acquire powers by sleeping in a dead dragon's body?
I read this novel a very long time ago, so the details are hazy, of course. All I clearly remember is that the main character has to sleep in the body of a dead dragon (to escape inclement weather, ...
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Help identify a story with witches, and men who can change into dragons
A young woman is a witch or has witch-like abilities.
When her grandmother goes missing she must step in to run the shop and realizes that granny also protected the lesser supernaturals in the ...
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Old fantasy book about two warring nations and an airship destroyed by a dragon
I'm looking for a book that was written by two authors about two warring nations of elves and hobbit-like people. The book cover has a small hobbit-like person in a shallow cave with a dragon looming ...
