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Originally Posted by A Little Green
By the way - the passage "but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough" somehow makes me awfully sad.
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Yes, I've always thought that too. In Tolkien's world, everything deteriorates. He is quite traditionalist (And he kept to being a strict CAtholic, and looked with scorn at anyone who bent the religion a bit).
Morgoth is like an inventor. If he creates dragons that are made to destroy, they destro. Their fire goes under the same rule. It is obviously very hot and the green flames maybe mean that something is special in that fire that is not the same as in normal fire. Glaurung almost destroyed Gondolin by himself. ALso, how can you compare dragons to
animals? (and I mean the regular type).
Here dragons can talk and think, and if I remember correctly, hypnotise people just by people looking in their eyes. That takes some brainpower.
The fire is obviously very hot, but mithril armour, in its nature, is magical to us. It may have had a very high melting point.
The rings, once made, could not be destroyed by the same heat that would melt gold, because they were infused with magic/power of an Ainu. This would mean that it would require more magic/power to destry it. Magic vs magic. And since the dragons were made to destroy, the rings would melt. But the one ring was made not to be destroyed, or a t least, Sauron infused it with so much magic that nothing except him, or the heat which made it (And could melt it in the first place) could destroy it.
So, as previous people havesaid, dragon magic is magic for us, but not in ME. They were made to destroy so they destroy*.
*this might be a bit irrelevant but it might be like a placebo. If you think you are better, you are better. If you think you can destroy a ring of power you can. There was once a man who held up a truck for a hours, until an ambulance came to save the person trapped inside. When you need to do something, your body finds away to do it.