Appearance in Popular Culture

Dragons has been around in many popular cultures since the 20th century, from novels, films, video games and so on. Asian dragons and European dragons has made a lot of appearance in popular cultures.


  • Middle-Earth, 1937
J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe setting, contains many of his great fantasy writings and also dragons
  • Ancalagon the Black appears in
           The Fellowship of the Ring[1954]
           The Silmarillion[1977]
  • Glaurung, the first of the dragons in Middle-earth is in.....
           The Silmarillion[1977]
           The Children of Húrin[2007] edited by Christopher Tolkien
  • Scatha appears in.....
           The Return of the King[1955]
  • Smaug is in.....
           The Hobbit[1937]

The Hobbit also has a movie adaptation that is The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug and the next upcoming movie The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies





  • How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2, 2010 & 2014

 Toothless and other dragons appear in this 2 films, Toothless is a jet-black European based dragon.




Skyrim was voted as Game of the Year 2011 by gamers, the developer is Bethesda Game Studios, the game lets player plays as a person born with the power of dragon known as the Dragonborn or Dovahkiin. The dragons in the game are mostly based of the wyvern.

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