{"id":32324,"date":"2009-05-31T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=32324"},"modified":"2009-05-31T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T19:33:02","slug":"john-howes-journal-just-what-is-it-about-dragons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2009\/05\/31\/32324-john-howes-journal-just-what-is-it-about-dragons\/","title":{"rendered":"John Howe’s Journal: JUST WHAT IS IT ABOUT DRAGONS?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or A Few Thoughts On Creatures That Don’t Exist<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Last October, I was asked if I would write a foreword for a book on… dragons. Having just had Forging Dragons publish at about the same time, they were still very fresh in my mind. Small world. Full of dragons. They seem to be everywhere, their ubiquity matched only by their variety. No other creature speads such colossal wings or drags its scaly belly across the mythical lands of so many cultures over the aeons. They span the spectrum from devilry to divinity, from blackest evil to boundless good. They come in all configurations, they speak, or they make our minds reel with the power of their thoughts, they squat athwart hoards of treasure untold. They are story. They are dragons.
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