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Inte drakar. Någon sorts kritter, nakna och fjäderlösa med fladdermusvingar, som Sauron hittat och fött upp. Drakar hade intelligens och talets gåva, vingbestarna hade varken det ena eller det andra. De gick åt i raskare takt än drakar också, Legolas satte en på spett vid Anduin och Eowyn slog ju nacken av en annan. Jag har för mig att Tolkien skriver om kräken i RoTK, men jag orkar inte leta upp det exakta citatet nu.

Fetid black creatures raised by Sauron as flying mounts for his Ringwraiths. The steed of the Lord of the Nazgûl at the Battle of the Pelennor was described as naked and featherless, with wings of hide like a bat, and a long, sinuous neck. In Ithilien, though, Frodo compared these beasts to giant carrion birds, a comparison that doesn't appear to match the other more detailed description. Perhaps he was describing their wheeling, watchful flight, rather than the appearance of the Creatures themselves.

Whatever the nature of the Winged Creatures, it seems that those used by the Nazgûl were the last of their kind in Middle-earth, and had been grown to an unnatural size by Sauron. Despite their size, they were not supernatural beings, but living creatures, and they could be hurt and slain: Legolas shot one with an arrow on the River Anduin, and Éowyn slew another on the Pelennor Fields. The last of the Winged Creatures perished in Mordor, where they were caught with their masters in the erupting fires of Mount Doom.

And behold! it was a winged creature: if bird, then greater than all other birds, and it was naked, and neither quill nor feather did it bear, and its vast pinions were as webs of hide between horned fingers; and it stank. A creature of an older world maybe it was, whose kind, fingering in forgotten mountains cold beneath the Moon, outstayed their day, and in hideous eyrie bred this last untimely brood, apt to evil. And the Dark Lord took it, and nursed it with fell meats, until it grew beyond the measure of all other things that fly; and he gave it to his servant to be his steed. Down, down it came, and then, folding its fingered webs, it gave a croaking cry, and settled upon the body of Snowmane, digging in its claws, stooping its long naked neck.

Kölddrakar är väl i princip exakt likadana, med den väsentliga skillnaden att elddrakarna då kan spruta eld, något kölddrakarna inte har förmåga till. Som ett exempel så var ju allas vår Glaurung en kölddrake.

Kölddrakar är väl i princip exakt likadana, med den väsentliga skillnaden att elddrakarna då kan spruta eld, något kölddrakarna inte har förmåga till. Som ett exempel så var ju allas vår Glaurung en kölddrake.

Var Glaurung en kölddrake ?