I realise we shouldn't be listing every dragon book by an author here, but I made an exception in the case of JRR Tolkien because "The Hobbit" is his first book with a dragon, but many people who have not read any Tolkien only know of "The Lord of the Rings". --
Bignose
I removed LotR because the plot doesn't deal with dragons in any major sense (or hardly at all). If people don't know stuff about JRRT, they should klick the JRRT link, not get an extra explanation here. --Pinkunicorn
This is true, on reflection. Would an acceptable compromise be: ("The Hobbit", "The Simarillion" and related works) ...? -- Bignose
According to the Webster dictionary, dragons are serpents or saurians. However, the dragons dipicted by western illustrations do not fit the description well. Anyone knows why?
- Dragons have not been illustrated, or even described, consistently *at all* throughout most of Western literature and mythology. [Anne McCaffrey]? wrote a book (I currently forget the title) that was basically an excuse to showcase a bunch of artists' dragon pieces, but the story tying them together has the author discussing the history of dragon lore, and the conflicting descriptions therein.
- A google search turns up http://www.draconian.com/whatis/ which goes into a fair amount of detail; we probably can't use the content directly though. -- Bignose
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