  glaurung is a fictional character in j. r. r. tolkien's fictional middle-earth legendarium. he is introduced in the silmarillion as the first of the dragons. he is also the main antagonist in the children of hÃºrin. he was known as the deceiver, the golden, the great worm and the worm of greed. ==characteristics== glaurung was a very powerful dragon, in turambar and the foalÃ³kÃ« a comparison of power is made between dragon and balrog, "yet of all are they (dragons) the most powerful, save it be the balrogs only..." if not the most magical. according to tolkien, he sired the rest of his race, or at least the brood of urulÃ³ki, wingless fire-breathing dragons. he was bred by morgoth from some unknown stock and was the first dragon to appear outside of angband. in 455 first age glaurung led the attack of fire that defeated the noldorin elves and their allies and broke the siege of angband in the battle of sudden flame, the dagor bragollach. in 472 during the battle of unnumbered tears, nÃ­rnaeth arnoediad, glaurung led the final reserve and the beasts of angband in an attack that prevented the joining of the two elven-hosts, breaking and routing the host of the sons of fÃ«anor, resulting in the total defeat of the union of maedhros. during this battle glaurung was stabbed in his vulnerable belly by the dwarf-king azaghÃ¢l and fled back to angband. in 495, glaurung was given his first independent command and led an orc-host to victory in the battle of tumhalad against the noldor of nargothrond led by tÃºrin turambar. he followed up his triumph by sacking nargothrond, enslaving or slaying its people, making a bed of the treasureit is possible that he is the dragon that appears in tolkien's poem "the hoard" in the adventures of tom bombadil, as it appears to be based on the events at nargothrond. of the city, and ruling as a dragon-king., in 498 tÃºrin led the men of the forest of brethil and defeated a force of orcs sent against them by glaurung. glaurung then roused himself and next year came against tÃºrin and bre
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