The dragon. The ultimate boogeyman. A creature of untold dread and destruction that appears in ancient myths across the world. Beowulf has one! The Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish features another! Even The Bible features a seven headed dragon in the apocalyptic Book of Revelation! Honestly, if a mythology doesn’t feature a dragon of some kind, can it really be considered a mythos at all? While dragons have being terrifying the human psyche for millennia, these ten most terrifying dragons in fantasy fiction have sure done a number on the modern reader.
Ancalagon the Black – The Silmarillion
(Houghton Mifflin Company)You thought Smaug from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit was bad? Oh my sweet summer child, be thankful that you didn’t during the First Age of Middle Earth, lest your mind have been broken by the unfathomable horror of Ancalagon the Black. Bred by the dark and godlike Morgoth (a being who makes Sauron look like a chump) Ancalagon was created to burn away the forces of goodness in world, and was used as a last resort in the cataclysmic War of Wrath. Ancalagon was to Smaug what Smaug was to a river newt, and was so massive that his body destroyed the towers Thangorodrim when he was finally shot out of the sky in battle. According to Gandalf himself, Anacalagon’s fire was the hottest ever breathed by dragon kind – being a wise wizard, Gandalf would know.
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