A Worm with Wings?

[Telchar]

I can't answer your question Saucepans. As I said in the quizroom I have always thought of Scatha as a non-winged dragon.

However, there is no justification given for this and the thread is in any event based on the assumption that Scatha was a Cold-Drake, which I believe is not the case.

I don't think of Scatha as either a cold- or a firedrake, simply because there is no mention of this, but as you say yourself he/her (we dont even know the gender) doesn't have to be a cold-drake to be wingless - he could well be a wingless firedrake like Glaurung.

I think my reason for thinking that Scatha was non-winged was that he was given the title 'The Worm'. I know that there is a single line in The Hobbit where Smaug is also refered to as a worm, but when I think worm - I think 'something-that-crawls'. But thats just my thought.

Personally I do not think that Scatha and Smaug were the two drakes that escaped the fall of Angband, because Smaug refers to himself as young when he descented on Ereborg - but old now...

The colddrakes Thorin said bred on the Withered Heath - there is no logic in assuming that the dragons escaping the fall of Angband were the only two we have names for.