AKA: Ancalagon the Black
Location: Angband
Novel: The Silmarillion
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
Natural History:
Ancalagon was the greatest of the winged dragons of Morgoth.
Morgoth used this new breed of winged dragons, which had not yet been seen before, as a last desperate assault during the War of Wrath during the First Age.
Ancalagon, the mightiest of those dragons, had a fire that nothing could withstand, and wings that could put a shadow over the land for miles.
Death befell Ancalagon after a day and night of battle. He fell from the sky upon the towers of Thangorodrim, which broke into ruin.
"It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the Rings of Power,
but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is
hot enough; nor was there ever any dragon, not even Ancalagon the Black,
who could have harmed the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself." -Gandalf
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