Questions tagged [dragons]
Dragons are mythical beasts. Dragonlore varies from culture to culture and from tale to tale. If asking about dragons in a specific work always use alongside the work tag. Do not use if the question simply mentions dragons. Also use alongside [story-identification] if looking to identify a story where dragons were prominent.
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What is the earliest example of a friendly Western dragon?
I note that the friendly Western dragon trope becomes common in the 20th century. My question is whether there are any earlier examples than Kenneth Grahame's "The Reluctant Dragon" (1898).
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What was the first work to portray the guardian of the Golden Fleece as a many-headed hydra?
At the climax of the mythical tale of Jason and the Argonauts' voyage to Colchis, Jason (with the help of the local priestess-princess Medea) steals the Golden Fleece from a sacred grove, where it ...
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Book about shape-shifting dragon men and a girl named Summer
I read this book somewhere between 1997 and 2002; found it in my high school library. The main character was a girl named Summer (I’m pretty sure), but I don’t remember much about the early story. She ...
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Book about a boy who goes to a "school" and learns about dragons
There's this one book I found years ago when I was a kid. The main plot revolves about a boy being so sent to a relative, who turns out to be teaching kids near his age about dragons. I don't know if ...
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How did demolishing the bridge to the lake town Esgaroth help against Smaug’s attack?
From Chapter XIV of The Hobbit, describing the preparations the men of the lake-town Esgaroth made against Smaug’s attack:
Every vessel in the town was filled with water, every warrior was armed, ...
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How big was Shruikan?
I've read some fan fiction dealing with the inheritance cycle, and some of the writers make Shruikan's size absolutely huge (far bigger than he appears in the 2006 film). We know that Dragons never ...
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Which was the first fantasy story to feature human-dragon hybrids?
I was watching Tensei Shitara Slime Datta Ken (2013) and a character in there is said to be a Dragonoid, the offspring of a human and a dragon. Then I remembered Dragon Quest (2020) also features a ...
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Trying to find a book with space dragons, genetically modified humans and a dual universe
When I was younger I read this Sci fi book from the library with a green hardcover surface. I remember there was an antagonist that was a human who had improved his physical abilities with Orangutan ...
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Manga where the mc is reincarnated to another world, and is accidentally transported into a nest of dragons
I'm looking for a black & white manga where the main character is reincarnated to another world, and is accidently sent into a nest of dragons, where he becomes overpowered while killing them all. ...
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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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Medieval fantasy book about a boy who finds a rock in a cave or something like that. He keeps it in his pocket 24/7 and it hatches into a dragon
Okay so I read this book, I'm pretty sure it was a book series as well, in 6th grade, so late 2010s.
What I can remember is that this boy (I think?) -- it's set in more of a medieval fantasy type ...
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Paperback novel featuring a dragon shapeshifter, with three characters on the cover, including a princess on a throne
I'm looking for a book I read while incarcerated. It's a paperback novel, a little older. On the cover, it has a princess on the throne, her dark haired female warrior and sidekick male dragon.
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Tolkien calls Sauron Morgoth's Greatest Servant - But does he ever really earn that with his actions?
Alright, so there is a great, incredibly well informed community here so let me ask a question that's been bothering me since I finished the Silmarillion. I'll lay out my reasoning for why it's a ...
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What is the movie where a crusader comes home and wants to become a farmer must rescue a princess who is protecting a dragon's egg?
The movie I am looking for is a fantasy movie where at the beginning of the movie you see a dragon kidnap the princess.
You then see a knight come home from the crusades. I believe it takes place in ...
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Manga where a dragon dies and reincarnates as a human villager
The manga is like a dragon dies and reincarnates or is reborn as a human who is a villager, which has some or all of his dragon powers. I don't remember much of what happened in it, but I know that ...
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What types of dragons are there in Middle-earth and how and why do they differ?
What types of dragons are there in Middle-earth and how and why do they differ?
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Book about a boy who finds an infant dragon
This story had a modern (late 90s, early 2000s) setting. A boy worked at a zoo/sanctuary for dragons in a world where dragons were a real, exotic animal and not a fantastical creature. He ventures ...
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How long did Saphira stay in her egg from the day it was laid by her mother?
How long did Saphira stay in her egg from the day it was laid by her mother?
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I thought it was called Dragon's Keep, but I can't find it [duplicate]
I've been trying to figure out the name of this book I once read. This is what I remember about it
a village is attacked
the main character and her brother escape
they travel for sometime until they ...
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Anime or cartoon about a dragon who falls under a spell to steal gold from banks
Anime or cartoon about a dragon who falls under a spell to steal gold from banks. These kids help stop bad guys and the dragon sends the bad guys to a magic jail. I think one of the girls falls in ...
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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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Manga with the main character being given the power to slay dragons by his future self
The main character at the beginning is very weak but his future self comes back and gives him the power to slay dragons. In the beginning his friend, who is a girl, is a hero who is very good at ...
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Episode of "The Familiar of Zero" where Saito feeds Tabitha's dragon again
I've forgotten which episode of The Familiar of Zero Saito feeds Tabitha's dragon again in. Because it's been a long since I last watched it, and I don't remember the scene.
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Book series about a young boy who lives with dragons
From what I remember, the main character is a young boy who goes to live with his dad who lives in a rundown mansion or something similar. When he gets there, he explores a bit and finds out about ...
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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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How does Gandalf know that dragon-fire might be able to melt the rings of power, but not the One Ring?
In Fellowship of the Ring "The Shadow of the Past", Frodo asks about destroying the One Ring. Gandalf says:
It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the rings of power but there is ...
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90's (?) fantasy novel where character uses blue ley lines to transform into dragon
I remember at some time in the mid-90's getting a book from my local library where part of the story was a young person, (possibly teens, and I think male), being taught by an elder (maybe human, ...
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Recent book about a disease that turns people into half-dragons
I remember someone telling me about a book but I can't remember who it was to ask them the name, so I'm hoping someone could identify it.
It's a relatively recent book, since they bought it last ...
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Where did the notion that Dragons could speak originate?
There are different sources in which dragons are able to speak and not speak.
Speaking examples:
Smaug in The Hobbit
Skyrim
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Non-speaking examples:
Game of Thrones/A Song of Ice and ...
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Manga where the hero is sent back in time by a dragon
He and the dragon that sent him back him then work together to kill the dragon king or something like that. In the new timeline, the dragon that sent him back does not initially know him, but the hero ...
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How did Daemon Targaryen control both Caraxes and Vhagar?
In A Dance With Dragons Chapter 50, Daenerys says this to Quentyn Martell:
It was said that even Aegon the Conquerer never dared mount Vhagar or Meraxes, nor did his sisters mount Balerion the ...
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A nineties/possibly early 2000s Fantasy series
Cannot for the life of me think of the name of what I’m pretty sure was a three book series, here’s what I can remember:
There’s a barbarian invasion of some more civilised nations, a few of the ...
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Children's book about a man and a woman (a boy and a girl?) on a mountain with a dragon
This is a childhood memory viewed dimly decades later. I am pretty sure that I read it before 1990, and the odds are decent that it was written before that because it was a book either we or my ...
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Cartoon about a boy who can create portals, and whose parents may have been dragons
The cartoon had a boy that could create portals, and if I remember correctly his parents were dragons. One of the main characters died, and later they found out he wasn't dead. Then they found his ...
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Book set in a time of dragons featuring a boy and his dragon saving their homeland from weird monsters [duplicate]
I have been trying to remember the title of a book I read like a year ago. It is based in a time of dragons and the two main characters in the book is a boy and a dragon. The boy and dragon are ...
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Short story about village girl who accidentally enters a dragon and lives inside it for many years
About five years ago, I read a longer short story in an anthology about a village with a giant village-sized dragon. A girl wanders inside the dragon, gets lost, and ends up living inside the dragon ...
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Young adult book about siblings with powers and dragons [duplicate]
I'm looking for the name of a young adult book I read maybe twenty years ago about a girl and her younger brother hiding out in a castle with a secretive owner.
Both siblings have some sort of power, ...
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Is the dragon consumed by Doctor Strange in "What If...?" S01E04 the same as the one seen in "Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings"...?
In the fourth episode of Marvel's What If...? series, an alternate version of Doctor Steven Strange learns that he must consume mystic beings in order to reverse an absolute point in time in his ...
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Animatronic dragon that comes to life [duplicate]
So I have no clue what the name of this movie is, I saw it when I was a little kid and can't remember for the life of me the name.
But the tidbits I do remember are as follows: A movie is being made ...
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YA book about paper mâché dragons coming to life
i remember reading a young adult book about a teen in modern times (1980-1990) who makes a bunch of paper mâché dragons as a hobby and they end up coming to life and attacking him in his home. I ...
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What's the origin of the trope that dragons used to be common but aren't any more?
It's common in fantasy stories for dragons to be formerly common but rare or extinct by the time of the story, for example, in Discworld, Game of Thrones, and perhaps The Hobbit (I can't recall enough ...
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What would Fiendfyre do to a dragon?
Dragons are supposed to be spell and fire resistant so it's expected that the effects of a fire spell won't hurt them. However, the Fiendfyre spell is extremely powerful dark magic, cursed flames ...
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YA book: Boy raises a young dragon named Vincent
I read a book years ago where a boy raises a young dragon named Vincent. The mature dragons are sentient, and an adult male left the dragon lands to find Vincent and recover him. Anyone know the name ...
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Trying to find a short story where a dragon is impersonating a wizard
I just remembered a memory of a short story I read back in middle school.
From what I remember, the story starts off with the 'wizard' blowing smoke into the sky as he looks down on the local village ...
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Book where a black dragon falls for a red-headed human girl, after she is almost killed while running away from her evil brother's men
I am looking for book that has a black dragon falling for a red-headed human girl, after she is almost killed while running away from her evil brother's men, who want to marry her off to the enemy. It ...
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Do the dragons in Game of Thrones have a limited number of fire breaths?
I was watching "The Long Night" and in the scene where the good team was looking out for Dany and Drogon to light up the trenches (but she was trapped in snowstorm), while Jon and Rhaegal ...
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Book about a boy who accidentally hatches dragons at his grandparents' estate
I read a book in 2017, I think; it was about a boy who, for the summer had to go to his grandparents estate in the forest.
I remember it was huge with gargoyles on the front gate. He finds a really ...
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The name of the book/series that had dragons coming back to the world
I am trying to find the name of this book. The ending went something like this -
The dragons have now come back. One of the dragons comes and lays her head on the fireplace of the main heroine. But ...
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Do standard definitions exist for 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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Do dragons have their own language?
Though Smaug is the only dragon who features prominently in The Hobbit or The Lord of the Rings, there are many others who live in Middle-Earth. They don't seem to be the most sociable of creatures, ...
