Nice research, littlemanpoet. I definitely see a couple of similarities, but I don't think we can look at those original Dragons to fill in the gaps that Tolkien left in his. Tolkien's borrowed mythical beings differ drastically from their traditional folklore counterparts. Gnomes and Elves, for example. It is interesting to see the characters that were evidently Tolkien's models for his Dragons, but I would avoid transferring features from them to Tolkien's. Tolkien's mythology was entirely independent.
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