[Rin]

I love them because they represent grace, power, and intelligence. They are also vain, generally solitary, and a bit on the greedy side. No greater mythological icon exists, IME.

I collect dragons, when my budget allows for it. Here are my two favorite pieces.

Enjoy:

[drlowz]

I hear you DRAGONSLAYER

[thezookeeper]

Hi Rin! Very cool. We have a pewter fantasy collection with dragons, wizards, castles, etc. Mostly LOTR things, but others as well. I'll post a pic soon.


Joanne

[Caesar Augustus]

Nice Rin! Do you read the dragonlance series?
Nap

[Rin]

10-4, That's a great epic. Weis and Hickman outdid themselves with that. Character development was simply outstanding.

The "War of Souls" series is not near as good. I'm having a hard time identifying with any of the characters. I'm almost finished with Dragons of a Lost Star and I have no idea how the 'heroes' are going to come out on top. It wouldn't surprise me that the series ends with the Kender getting stepped on by the giant and the entire story line was concocted in his head in the few seconds before his death. As the gnomes would probably say--a whatifIdidn'treallygetsteppedon story.

The authors tend to paint themselves into a corner with their plot twists and it becomes a little irritating that they resolve several chapters of despair with a 'tweak' of someone's nose and call it victory. Their Deathgate series is a very good example of this. They didn't even have the good taste to keep the characters in that series separate from the Dragonlance series. E.G. Fizban in Dragonlance and Nabzif (Fizban backwards) in Elven Star.

I used to play the games, too--that was an eon ago, though. T$R got a little out of hand with their copyrights, so I became a little disenchanted with them. I'm a working stiff now, so I never got back into them. I'm not even sure that I could, I've lost a lot of my ideology of my youth.