Dragon's Journeys by

Thanks again, Himring! Also, SWG was the easiest upload--no fussy formatting experiments!

Thanks, Angelica! I'm glad you liked it! Dragons are a big fave of mine, as well.

Thank you, Wavesinger! I'm glad you liked it! About the formatting, this is the only archive where I didn't do anything more than copy-paste from Word--no skill involved. Everywhere else I posted I either fiddled with it until I gave up, or just ... gave up without fiddling!

Thank you, Pandë!  I'm so glad it works--that was exactly my intention!  In my framework of "Sam's Book of Tales", he collected it either in Rohan, as a tale brought south, and handed down, or in some little village he passed through during his travels.

It certainly did not appear the way the bards of old are said to have composed, extemporaneously, but little by little, a couple words at a time over several months.  So that part was not very Tolkien-like, as he seems to have been much more like those old bards in his abilities!  I'm thinking of his "The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth Beorthelm's Son" (for example), the short play in alliterative verse, which he apparently just dashed off!

Oh gosh, Bard, I just now noticed your review!

Thanks so much!  You are right, I found this difficult and time-consuming.  Although I am fairly pleased with the result (except I wish it were longer!), I think I'll stick with prose, and maybe a little rhyming verse.

I have wanted to add a dragon story for the longest time (I love dragons too, as you know), and this style seemed perfectly apt for one.  Also, I didn't want to make her an out-and-out villain, but for her to maaaaybe still be hibernating with her treasure in some remote snowy mountain.

So glad you liked it!