Ancalagon
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Ancalagon can mean:-
- Ancalagon (fossil), a priapulid worm found fossil in the Burgess Shale.
- A dragon in J.R.R.Tolkien's stories: described here.
Ancalagon the Black was a dragon in the fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Dark Lord Morgoth bred Ancalagon ("Rushing jaws") during the First Age to be the greatest and mightiest of all dragons, and the first of the winged 'fire-drakes'. During the brief War of Wrath that pitted Morgoth's armies against the host of the Valar, Morgoth sent Ancalagon forth from the fortress of Angband to destroy the Dark Lord's enemies. So powerful was the dragon that even the Valar host was driven back.
But Eärendil 'The Blessed' in his powerfully hallowed elven airborne ship Vingilot duelled with Ancalagon for an entire day, until Eärendil at length prevailed, pitching Ancalagon onto the triple-peaked towers of Thangorodrim, destroying both him and them. With his mightiest defender slain, Morgoth was soon utterly defeated.
Ancalagon was said to have been so large that he blotted out the Sun. We can later infer that from what Gandalf said, Ancalagon's fire-breath was hotter than that of any other dragon in history, but still not hot enough to destroy the One Ring.
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