View original postDragons don't NEED anything to be what they are. They can be wingless for all I care. (Glaurung was wingless.) Oriental dragons are depicted without wings, and sometimes limbless as well. To me, the requirements for dragons are more fluid. As long as they are great, fire-breathing serpents, I'm fine with anything.
But when I'm led to believe something is a dragon with four legs, that is what I want it to be. Tolkien had other dragony things in his stories, including some w/o fire, but Smaug (in my head) has always had four legs. Thus far, I haven't liked most two-legged representations, so I'm disappointed. I will hold back real judgment until I see for myself.
View original postSmaug looked every bit the dragon in the movie. He had forelegs and hind legs, and the wings just happened to be attached to the former.
View original postAnd I've always thought wyverns were dragon-like creatures with a barbed tail like a scorpion.
Drawings of them typically have two wings, two legs and a tail (often with a curl in it - very wyrmy) that ends in a point like an arrow.
The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug
- 13/12/2013 10:03:50 AM
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Sorry, two-legged dragons are just goofy, even if they did the best they could with that limitation
- 13/12/2013 11:13:34 PM
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I'm glad I am not the only person who cares about that.
- 15/12/2013 08:41:48 AM
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I don't care whether dragons have "hands" or not, as long as it meets all other draconic reqs.
- 15/12/2013 02:16:15 PM
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I'm not looking for "hands."
- 15/12/2013 03:48:26 PM
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I especially liked Thranduil's scenes. *minor spoilers*
- 13/12/2013 11:25:30 PM
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such a good physical match for Legolas
- 14/12/2013 01:22:21 AM
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Thought he looked more elf than Elrond and Galadriel put together.
- 14/12/2013 07:13:00 AM
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So how is the new female elf they introduce "Tauriel"
- 14/12/2013 05:34:56 AM
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Have to say, this was even worse than the first one, and I fear the third one may be still worse.
- 04/01/2014 12:32:51 AM
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You know what I think. I definitely have spoilers.
- 04/01/2014 07:23:52 PM
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No point in arguing about such things, of course
- 04/01/2014 09:51:07 PM
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This is true.
- 04/01/2014 11:22:51 PM
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"Hamster", not "Hampster".
- 05/01/2014 05:28:48 PM
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It's a Gerbil from the Hamptons.
- 05/01/2014 08:11:39 PM
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Or perhaps a hipster rodent. All the more reason to poison it. *NM*
- 06/01/2014 07:54:13 PM
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The golden statue
- 06/01/2014 05:55:31 PM
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...that doesn't make me feel better.
- 07/01/2014 06:41:01 PM
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*NM*