The Encyclopedia of Arda - Worms (original) (raw)

ALPHABETICAL RACES PLACES MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCE INTERACTIVE SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random
Dates First recorded I 260; apparently still extant Divisions Cold-drakes, Fire-drakes, Long-worms, Were-worms Other names Dragons Meaning From the Old English _wyrm_1 Indexes: Alphabetical: W Dragons About this entry: Updated 19 January 2002 Updates planned: 3 The race of Dragons Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV A name for the race of Dragons, and especially those wingless kinds (such as Glaurung himself) who crawled on the ground. Notes 1 The Old English wyrm itself seems to descend from an Old Norse word, ormr, meaning 'serpent'. The Greek word drakon means 'serpent', too, so that if we follow the history of the words back far enough, 'worm' and 'dragon' both mean exactly the same thing. See also... Gold-worm of Angband, Great Worm, Long-worms, Worm of Dread, Worm of Morgoth, Wormstench Indexes: Alphabetical: W Dragons About this entry: Updated 19 January 2002 Updates planned: 3 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001-2002. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Find the best personality matches for any role in seconds with Discus' Candidate Match feature.

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ALPHABETICAL RACES PLACES MISCELLANEOUS REFERENCE INTERACTIVE

SHARE User guide Latest entries FAQ and e-mail Disclaimer and bibliography Awards Old and rare words Lexicon of names Excyclopedia of Arda Movie-goer's Guides: • The Fellowship of the Ring • The Two Towers • The Return of the King The Hobbit Viewer's Companions: • An Unexpected Journey • The Desolation of Smaug • The Battle of the Five Armies Tolkien links Book news Latest Chronicle Calendar Old and rare words Lexicon of names Links Random

Dates First recorded I 260; apparently still extant Divisions Cold-drakes, Fire-drakes, Long-worms, Were-worms Other names Dragons Meaning From the Old English _wyrm_1 Indexes: Alphabetical: W Dragons About this entry: Updated 19 January 2002 Updates planned: 3 The race of Dragons

Years of the Trees First Age I Second Age II Third Age III Fourth Age IV A name for the race of Dragons, and especially those wingless kinds (such as Glaurung himself) who crawled on the ground. Notes 1 The Old English wyrm itself seems to descend from an Old Norse word, ormr, meaning 'serpent'. The Greek word drakon means 'serpent', too, so that if we follow the history of the words back far enough, 'worm' and 'dragon' both mean exactly the same thing. See also... Gold-worm of Angband, Great Worm, Long-worms, Worm of Dread, Worm of Morgoth, Wormstench Indexes: Alphabetical: W Dragons About this entry: Updated 19 January 2002 Updates planned: 3 For acknowledgements and references, see the Disclaimer & Bibliography page. Original content © copyright Mark Fisher 1998, 2001-2002. All rights reserved. For conditions of reuse, see the Site FAQ. Website services kindly sponsored by Discus from Axiom Software Ltd.Find the best personality matches for any role in seconds with Discus' Candidate Match feature.