Lecture on Dragons
From Tolkien Gateway
Lecture on Dragons (sometimes known as Essay on Dragons) is an unpublished lecture by J.R.R. Tolkien. Extracts have been published in Leaves from the Tree (1991) and in J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator (1995).
The lecture was originally given on 1 January 1938 to children at the University of Oxford Museum. Tolkien describred two kind of dragons, "'creeping' and 'winged' but, in general, large, deadly, coiling serpent-creatures."[1]
References
- ↑ Quoted in Tree of Tales.
