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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

A Dragon of Middle Earth




I purchased this dragon in 2000 at Historicon. Painting it took some time as I had other miniatures on the painting table. It was finally finished in July of 2008. The figure represents Scatha, the fire-dragon of the Grey Mountains. 

Mithril Miniatures is the manufacturer and they had a booth in the vendor area. I had been looking for a dragon and Scatha was on display. I liked the way it was sculpted. The scale, 32mm, was a good size, as it fit into my display cabinet.

The Tolkien Gateway website provided the following information on Scatha.

“Little is known of Scatha's life, except that he possessed a great hoard, stolen from the Dwarves. He was slain by Fram son of Frumgar in the early days of the Éothéod.
His recovered hoard was the subject of great dispute between the Men of the Éothéod and the Dwarves of that region, who claimed the hoard as their own. Fram rebuked their claim, and sent them the teeth of the dragon, with the words, "Jewels such as these you will not match in your treasuries, for they are hard to come by." It was rumored that for this insult the Dwarves killed him. 
It seems like Fram's people retained at least some of the hoard, and Eorl brought it south when they settled in Rohan. The Horn of the Mark that Éowyn gave to Merry Brandybuck after the War of the Ring many hundred of years later was said to come from Scatha's hoard.



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