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Ancalagon, or Ancalagon the Black, is a dragon that appears in the legends of British writer J. R. R. Tolkien, and particularly in his novel The Silmarillion.. Bred by Morgoth in the depths of his fortress of Angband, Ancalagon is present at the last battle of the First Age, which sees the battle between the armies of the Valar and Morgoth to free Middle-earth from the latter's yoke.
Ancalagon the Black (Sindarin: rushing jaws from anc "jaw", and alag "impetuous" [T 11]) was a dragon bred by Morgoth during the First Age, as told in The Silmarillion. He was one of Morgoth's most powerful servants, the mightiest of all dragons, and the first of the winged "fire-drakes".
The generic name refers to the dragon Ancalagon, who was mentioned in The Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien.In The Silmarillion, Ancalagon was described as being one of the more powerful servants of the malevolent being, Morgoth, having been bred to be the fiercest, mightiest, and largest dragon in all of Middle-earth.
Ancalagon the Black, who is the largest dragon of Middle-Earth (The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954; The Silmarillion, 1977) Scatha the Worm ( The Return of the King , Appendix A.II, 1955) Smaug the Golden ( The Hobbit , 1937): Smaug is a classic, European-type dragon; deeply magical, hoards treasure and burns innocent towns.
Ancalagon may refer to: Ancalagon the Black, a dragon from the works of J.R.R. Tolkien; Ancalagon, a fossil genus of priapulid worms; Ankalagon saurognathus, a Paleocene mesonychid mammal, originally named Ancalagon and later renamed
Morgoth summons many Men to his side during the fifty-year conflict, the longest and bloodiest in Arda's history. Morgoth is utterly defeated. Thangorodrim is shattered when Eärendil kills the greatest of dragons, Ancalagon the Black, who crashes upon it as he falls.
Modern fan illustration by David Demaret of the dragon Smaug from J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 high fantasy novel The Hobbit. This is a list of dragons in popular culture.Dragons in some form are nearly universal across cultures and as such have become a staple of modern popular culture, especially in the fantasy genre.
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