How Big Is Balerion & Vhagar Compared To Middle Earth Dragons?

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  • čas přidán 11. 09. 2022
  • The House of the Dragon from Game of Thrones and the Middle Earth Dragons from Tolkien are two of the most popular movie and TV series franchises. This is MindQ's estimated size so do share your thoughts in the comment section.
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  • @Benjamin-dd9gg
    @Benjamin-dd9gg Před rokem +154

    Let's not forget that the 3 peaks of Thangorodrim were taller than Mt. Everest, so the fact that Ancalagon crushed them while dying shows how much of a different level of dragon he was

  • @mavvynne444
    @mavvynne444 Před rokem +858

    Ancalagon is on entirely different level than those small drakes from Game of Thrones series. Ancalagon is easily a Titan size level, when it spread its wings apart... It covers the sun and sky in darkness. That's how truly massive Ancalagon is. It's like Ghidorah but on super steroids.

    • @AnupomAG
      @AnupomAG Před rokem +51

      He can make Ghidorah a baseball

    • @hyperlordrxrofficial9500
      @hyperlordrxrofficial9500 Před rokem +32

      Yea hes like 10 x the size of mv Ghidorah

    • @AnupomAG
      @AnupomAG Před rokem +27

      Is there a chance that we might see Anacalgon in a flashback in Rings of Power series?

    • @riccardodessi5387
      @riccardodessi5387 Před rokem

      @@AnupomAG they don’t have the rights

    • @Orocarnii
      @Orocarnii Před rokem +63

      @@AnupomAG no because they dont have rights to show him

  • @jamesmartin1362
    @jamesmartin1362 Před rokem +614

    Ancalagon was a different monster entirely. Monstrously powerful and highly intelligent. Smaug is much smaller than Ancalagon so wrap your head around that.

    • @joshuajosephwelcome5528
      @joshuajosephwelcome5528 Před rokem +2

      no he isnt ancalagon is like the most powerful dragon on middlee earth

    • @TheOther644
      @TheOther644 Před rokem +21

      Smaug isn't even close to Ancalagon, but he isn't as small as he's made out here. Sauron didn't create them that is a rumor I believe with out fact?

    • @miclovin1462
      @miclovin1462 Před rokem +30

      @@TheOther644 Morgoth is the creator of the dragons

    • @TheOther644
      @TheOther644 Před rokem +6

      @@miclovin1462 Yep, nd that's why I said Sauron isn't that creator.

    • @middleearthGOD
      @middleearthGOD Před rokem +10

      @@onetimethurman583 how? Ballerion to ancalagon is like human to ballerion

  • @valarmorghulis5575
    @valarmorghulis5575 Před rokem +328

    As much as I love Balerion, Ancalagon is not just your typical dragon. He is intelligent not the I know who my master is kind of way, but intelligent like capable of rationalizing and strategizing. He was a powerhouse in the war at Arda and was able to drive back the forces of the Valars. Ballerion was more like a bully, burning down mere mortals. Not that he is weak, he killed another dragon but that is nowhere near fight the Valars and a flock of Great Eagles.

    • @TheOther644
      @TheOther644 Před rokem +10

      Well to be fair all the dragons in J. R. R. Tolkien's books and shows are a lot more then the animal like dragons in George R. R. Martin's books and shows.

    • @miroslavperoutka225
      @miroslavperoutka225 Před rokem +5

      Of course, they are Maiars like Sauron, Wizards or Thorondir (King of eagles). Powerfull spirits and lesser Gods of Arda.

    • @ardi1606
      @ardi1606 Před rokem +3

      @@miroslavperoutka225 where did you get that they're maiar? They're not maiar as long as i remember.

    • @valarmorghulis5575
      @valarmorghulis5575 Před rokem +2

      @The One Loser Guy exactly.

    • @valarmorghulis5575
      @valarmorghulis5575 Před rokem +5

      @@TheOther644 exactly. BUT, not all LoTR dragons are more powerful that ASoIF dragons. When it comes to Ancalagon though, I doubt even 3 Balerions could beat him. It's his massive size and intellect combined.

  • @vladimpaler3498
    @vladimpaler3498 Před rokem +69

    Remember, when Tolkien says that Morgoth let evil spirits enter into creatures, such as dragons, what he really means is Maia. Maybe not as powerful as Sauron or Gothmog, but in the case of Ancalacon the Black, very close to Gothmog, Lord of Balrogs. So, unlike Game of Thrones, Tolkien's dragons have divine beings in them. You are not talking about a large powerful magical beast, but a large powerful beast with an extremely powerful evil demigod. Balerion the Black Dread would soil himself when confronted by Ancalagon the Black.

    • @adrianhultman6236
      @adrianhultman6236 Před 4 měsíci +1

      Just a small note, it's not that clear that it's always Mayar he is talking about in these cases, I'd actually argue that it's only in some cases that can be reasonably inferred. Take the barrow wights for an example, which are created when the Witch King sent evil spirits to inhabit the corpses in the Barrow Downs. I'd say its hard to argue that those evil spirits are Mayar, both due to the power of the wights and because Nazgûl are not on the same powerlevel as Mayar and it would thus be weird if the Nazgûl could command them.
      On another, I'm not sure if Tolkien actually describes Dragons as being inhabited by evil spirits, at least not in the Silmarillion. I know he does when it comes to werewolves for example (which is most probably Mayar in that case), but as I understood it Morgoth just infused dragons with a part of his magic. If I'm wrong I'd be very grateful if you could tell me where Tolkien wrote about it!

    • @vladimpaler3498
      @vladimpaler3498 Před 3 měsíci

      @@adrianhultman6236 However, it is not clear how it can be any other way. It clearly says in The Silmarillion that Morgoth cannot create living things of his own. There are several points where he imprisons 'unclean spirits' but does not say much more. Clearly Morgoth cannot create spirits, and anything he puts his power into would not be animated unless he put his mind to them. (See of Aule and the dwarves.)
      The only other place he may be able to get them is from men or orcs, the latter his corruption of elves. This may be possible if he has the power to withhold those spirits from their normal process. (Going beyond the world or to Mandos .) Clearly the dragons are way too powerful for the spirits of men. Now, could they be the spirits of orcs given some of Morgoth's power to enhance them? Yes, but I feel it is a stretch. I think it clear that the Ainur come in a spectrum of power and some are just weenies but still useful. They might be so weak compared to Sauron, Balrogs, Ungoliant, etc., that they are only thought of as spirits.
      Regardless, I still think Ancalagon the Black would eat Balerion for a snack.

  • @argonianaccount1876
    @argonianaccount1876 Před rokem +254

    I think your chart at the end underrepresented Ancalagon. Pretty sure the others could play quite comfortably on the top of his head without bothering him.

    • @trilldadon100yago5
      @trilldadon100yago5 Před rokem +26

      Yeah, He's massive

    • @Machodork
      @Machodork Před rokem +3

      @@trilldadon100yago5 as big as a mountain

    • @she_ryl1919
      @she_ryl1919 Před rokem +1

      So let the battle begin with balerion say's google balerion can killed ancalagon , balerion is the strongest, biggest and the prime of meraxes and vhagar the two giant dragon.no one can kill the balerion and it didn't die in fighting it die because of his old age

    • @argonianaccount1876
      @argonianaccount1876 Před rokem +26

      @@she_ryl1919 not a chance in hell. Balerion was large and powerful yes, but Ancalagon was so large he was more like a force of nature than a dragon.
      How can you fight a hurricane that causes tornados and lightning storms in its wake?

    • @she_ryl1919
      @she_ryl1919 Před rokem +1

      @@argonianaccount1876 says google even if ancalagon is big strong still balerion win

  • @shadymaestro
    @shadymaestro Před rokem +220

    If Smaug is accurate from the movie..GOT dragons are small

    • @hugo-pg5tv
      @hugo-pg5tv Před rokem +13

      He is that big

    • @michaelcortez6596
      @michaelcortez6596 Před rokem +14

      Vhaegar will be as big as Balerion in the House of the Dragon in the HBO series. If the content creator of this video showed Balerion almost at the same size as Smaug, we will wait and see and compare them in the upcoming episodes of the series. :)

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před rokem +15

      @@michaelcortez6596 no he won't, Vhagar was never as big as balerion, by the dance vhagar was around Balerion size during Maegor Reign, that was 90 years before the dance for comparison

    • @jadenmcmillan4306
      @jadenmcmillan4306 Před rokem +3

      No he's not,he's actually smaller than drogon in the books,he's only big in live action,and that wasn't even his skull in the TV show game oth thrones,there is another skull in HOTD which is way bigger than that,that's balerion,live action and books balerion are sooo much bigger than books and live action smaug

    • @hugo-pg5tv
      @hugo-pg5tv Před rokem +18

      @@jadenmcmillan4306 he is not smaller than drogon in the books the movie is accurate

  • @kevinobill4818
    @kevinobill4818 Před rokem +229

    I loved dragons very much. It’s unfortunate that there aren’t too many films or tv shows portraying them as main characters and more personality

    • @f00lxpl
      @f00lxpl Před rokem +19

      you mean dragonality?

    • @kunik61
      @kunik61 Před rokem +1

      Actually there are plenty of stories featuring dragons as main protagonists or supporting ones.

    • @redenriot4577
      @redenriot4577 Před rokem +2

      Veldora, Veldanava, Velzado,Velgrynd, Milim, Neltharion, Wrathion, Alexstrazsa, Ysera, and Alduin: *And I took that personally*

    • @Thomas-um5pv
      @Thomas-um5pv Před rokem +5

      @@redenriot4577 lol he said tv shows and films, you proceed to tell him about 5 from games and 5 from an anime, not really accurate :/

    • @redenriot4577
      @redenriot4577 Před rokem +2

      @@Thomas-um5pv So? Lmao I only named fictional dragons who are intelligent and has a lot of personality. Also ur late xD to reply.

  • @akeelyaqub2538
    @akeelyaqub2538 Před rokem +16

    Ancalagon and his host were able to push back the host of the valar, an army made up of Noldor, vanyar, maia and some valar. Even if he wasnt the size we think he was he would still stomp every army in asoiaf combined along with their dragons. He literally put gods and archangels on the back foot....
    There is also divine magic in middle earths dragons, even if a maia spirit was not embodying them, they were still infused with Melkors power, making them far more potent in power than asoiaf dragons.

  • @ibrahimsurti4922
    @ibrahimsurti4922 Před rokem +91

    Ancalogon cant even be called a dragon, it was more of a mystical creature than a mythical one
    it could fly as fast as light and could shatter armies with a mere breath
    trust be balerion and vhagar would be his toothpicks

    • @Asthfghl
      @Asthfghl Před rokem +2

      Nothing can fly as fast as light. Your mass would approach infinity as you get close to the speed of light.

    • @filiblackthorn
      @filiblackthorn Před rokem

      @@Asthfghl bro

    • @erikcallenfors
      @erikcallenfors Před rokem +21

      @@Asthfghl really? That's the only thing that's not realistic here?

    • @jacforse7642
      @jacforse7642 Před rokem +6

      @@erikcallenfors yes because its still in the realm of possibility that you could have scaly flying creatures that breathe fire, but to transcend the physics that the world is built on gets unnatural

    • @Asthfghl
      @Asthfghl Před rokem

      @@erikcallenfors Flying beasts being so big as to hide the sun and shatter armies - sure, while highly unlikely at least it's explainable with the laws of physics. But flying at the speed of light? Please. Unless it's just a figure of speech, aren't we getting a bit too far? ;-)

  • @neogenmatrix6162
    @neogenmatrix6162 Před rokem +61

    Ancalagon the Black was 1000+ meters in length. Bigger than some mountains.

    • @dahermujtaba328
      @dahermujtaba328 Před rokem

      In which movie was he?

    • @neogenmatrix6162
      @neogenmatrix6162 Před rokem +16

      @@dahermujtaba328 He was not, he was in The Silmarillion

    • @continentalextinction
      @continentalextinction Před rokem

      @@neogenmatrix6162 where is that ever mentioned? Stop lying bro

    • @neogenmatrix6162
      @neogenmatrix6162 Před rokem +14

      @@continentalextinction Sorry, it is, In the Voyage of Earendil and the War of Wrath. In his fall after the Eagles of Manwe led by Thorondor killed him, he fell upon Thangorodrim and destroying the volcanic mountains in his fall. It was mentioned that Ancalagon was as big as Thangorodrim which was considered the tallest mountain in Middle Earth.

    • @continentalextinction
      @continentalextinction Před rokem

      @@neogenmatrix6162 how is he as big as Thangorodrim if he fits inside Angband?

  • @alphagamer9505
    @alphagamer9505 Před rokem +71

    That skull in got isn't balerion, Balerion skull is the one that appears in HOTD, which is much bigger

    • @tifferzturner
      @tifferzturner Před rokem +13

      No it is .. they confirmed that they made Balerion’s skull bigger for HOTD & it’s different angles . Kyburn told Cersei that the skull belonged to Balerion .

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před rokem +19

      @@tifferzturner I trust in Targaryens to know that is balerion than Qyburn so that skull in got isn't Balerion, it may be meraxes, Vhagar or Vermithor

    • @Pimpmobil117
      @Pimpmobil117 Před rokem +4

      @@alphagamer9505 It was said multiple times in Got that the head beneath the red keep is indeed Balerion the dread

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před rokem

      @@Pimpmobil117 I know it was said, but the head in HOTD is clearly bigger, so one of the skulls isn't balerion, my bet is the one shown in got isn't balerion

    • @theonewhoismany8072
      @theonewhoismany8072 Před rokem

      @@Pimpmobil117 The head in the Red Keep is not Balerion's is the head of Meraxes.

  • @Alastair_
    @Alastair_ Před rokem +75

    Drogon was very young to be the size he was, and he still has around 200 years to grow. I reckon he'll be bigger than the Dread once he finally dies.

    • @brutifullroast2548
      @brutifullroast2548 Před rokem +15

      It's said that Drogon is the reincarnation of the Black Dread. His intelligence is unnatural stating that he must have lived a life before and his growth rate and raw power is is identical to Bolarion

    • @perce1veALL
      @perce1veALL Před rokem +10

      Drogon is much smaller in the books.
      In the shows, it was just a creative decision to make him big that won't amount to anything imo, he'd still be smaller than Balerion.

    • @servantofthe99
      @servantofthe99 Před rokem +2

      @@perce1veALL I could probably get behind this. Drogon is definitely capable of growing, but even at the upper limit i'd say around Vhagar max size. Generally dragons in westeros/targaryen dragon's have been getting smaller and smaller. The Last Dragon in the books is small, mutated, and weak.
      Ancalagon is just a whole different beast altogether

    • @aswinastro
      @aswinastro Před rokem +4

      @@servantofthe99 True, I think Balerion being huge may actually berelated to the fact that he was the last dragon to be born in Valyria. Only Meraxes and Vhagar, and to an extent Vermithor and Cannibale even came closer to his size after the Targareyens moved from Valyria to Dragonstone. I feel that Balerion was from a different species (Comparing Dragons to dogs, maybe Balerion was like a Great Dane species, naturally bigger). Also, since most of the dragons died during the doom, Balerion literally had no other dragons to fear and there was plenty of food. So, little competiton, with a lot of natural food sources meant that he could not only grow bigger, but also be a lot more larger than any living dragon - possibly explains why the future dragons never reached the size. They either had inferior genetics, spent too much time chained up or simply never lived long enough.

    • @its_dey_mate
      @its_dey_mate Před rokem

      @@aswinastro Sorry, new to lore. I saw somewhere that Cannibal is larger than even Balerion, him being a free dragon entirely having not spent any time enclosed. Is that true? Or is Balerion just the end all-be all of asoiaf dragons.

  • @korrde
    @korrde Před rokem +13

    All the dragons of Middle-Earth are superior to those of A Song of Ice and Fire for a really simple reason. They were all sentient. No dragon in ASOIAF or its legendarium have demonstrated intelligence greater than that of any other animal.

  • @onekingtoburnemall.7172
    @onekingtoburnemall.7172 Před rokem +66

    It's true that Morgoth's dragons were of entirely different size range but I don't think Balerion was smaller than Smaug.

    • @Mauro-mc5bc
      @Mauro-mc5bc Před rokem +7

      well drogon and smaug have something in common in the movie/tv show they are way bigger compared to the books, drogon was barely in the category of rideable dragons and smaug probaly would be in the middle of Vhagar and Balerion, personally I belive that Balerion is a lit bit bigger

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 Před rokem +1

      He is but the size difference isn’t huge

    • @rayray9865
      @rayray9865 Před rokem +3

      @@Mauro-mc5bc so in the books smug was said to be 58 ft long it was also said that he was one of the smallest dragons.

    • @durttheelder4035
      @durttheelder4035 Před rokem

      @@rayray9865 of the great dragons
      once he died
      all other dragons were considered lesser dragons not really worth mentioning
      they were prob all smaller

    • @ryanwalker8843
      @ryanwalker8843 Před rokem +6

      @@rayray9865 this is taken from The Atlas of Middle-earth. Not written by Tolkien and is an estimate done by looking at artwork and calculating his size compared to Bilbo. In letter 27 however Tolkien says that Bilbo is 'enormously too large' in that artwork. Its mentioned in the video that it's not canonical. No size is given for smaug other than that he could just fit the tip of his nose in a passage wide enough for 3 people and 5ft tall. People endlessly say the book says smaug is 58 to 59ft. No it dosent the Atlas of middle earth not written by Tolkien does and the artwork used to estimate this is specifically spoken about by Tolkien in his letter as showing bilbo as way too big and therefore the estimate for smaug was far too small.

  • @isaksidenius7059
    @isaksidenius7059 Před rokem +41

    Ancalagon is on another level he is maybe 15-20 times larger than Smaug. He was the size of a mountain and one crumbled under him when he died. He could have taken on all of game of thrones dragons and won easily.

    • @thesterben5573
      @thesterben5573 Před rokem +8

      idk about ten or twenty times,ancagalons death caused a mountain range to collapse so its prolly bigger

    • @akeelyaqub2538
      @akeelyaqub2538 Před rokem +2

      He was more 150-200 times bigger than smaug

    • @frederikl.1642
      @frederikl.1642 Před 6 měsíci

      @@akeelyaqub2538 Only if you take fanart literally. Otherwise, there is no evidence that he was more than a couple times larger than Smaug.

    • @calebbrown419
      @calebbrown419 Před 6 měsíci +2

      ​@@frederikl.1642 the evidence that he's quite bigger is in the silmarillion where it says he crushed the peaks of thangorodrim beneath him. Thangorodrirm were massive mountains of slag piled up over the near millenia of morgoths war against the world. These mountains were easily bigger than everest, and ancalagon crushed these mountains, plural, to the grouns

    • @frederikl.1642
      @frederikl.1642 Před 6 měsíci +3

      @@calebbrown419 That says literally nothing about his actual size. The peaks of Thangorodrim "were broken in his ruin" can mean anything from "after his death, the Valar were able to destroy Thangorodrim" to "a magic cataclysm/earthquake brought down the peaks".
      There's precedent for the latter interpretation as the death of a 12-foot tall first age demigod caused the foot of a mountain to collapse. Did he crush it all under his body weight? No, obviously not.
      People can't just talk out their asses about Ancalagon being "15, 20, 150, 200 gazillion times larger than Smaug" based on literally no tangible information at all and then pretend that the Ancalagon fanart they found on Google images is even remotely close to fact.

  • @ReikokuXCM
    @ReikokuXCM Před rokem +10

    I think of it as Ancalagon was a house, and the GOT dragons were mice outside that house

  • @jeffreysamson5938
    @jeffreysamson5938 Před rokem +61

    Ancalagon is much much bigger than all of the other dragons.

  • @hkt9999
    @hkt9999 Před rokem +11

    I love dragon very much, it’s unfortunate that the only living species today that survived the Great War is the Bearded Dragon.

  • @clashclans672
    @clashclans672 Před rokem +18

    Don't forget smaug is a intelligent creature so for sure he can beat other dragons easily

    • @benlewis5312
      @benlewis5312 Před rokem +1

      Mate, intelligence only goes so far. No human would ever be able to take on a silverback gorilla despite the fact that humans are more intelligent. Besides, all dragons in LOTR are highly intelligent. Ancalagon is more intelligent than Smaug and more importantly he's 100x the size

    • @continentalextinction
      @continentalextinction Před rokem +2

      Albert Einstein will still lose to the rock in a fist fight

    • @ardi1606
      @ardi1606 Před rokem +2

      @@benlewis5312 ohh human would take on silverback. We even stole food from pack of lions. Lol

    • @JoseFerreira-ms9xi
      @JoseFerreira-ms9xi Před rokem +2

      @@benlewis5312 Imagine a Monkey with a machine gun and now imagine a human being with a machine gun

    • @KrystianZieba-kc8tx
      @KrystianZieba-kc8tx Před 3 měsíci

      Technically also more powerfull, what pepole seem to forget is that smaug is not an animal like got dragons. He is a magical creature.
      Size matters little in that case. Smaug himself being so durable his scales can only really be demaged by the black arrow. Which is not like bolts from got, there is a bit more complexity to it all.
      Overall, smaug is about as big as balerion, but smaug outshines balerion in both the aspect of power, Intelligence, and durability.

  • @RSHjr
    @RSHjr Před rokem

    Where do u find/ use the graphs and charts and drawings out the dragons/dragon riders from the hotd history?!?!

  • @Divine_Chareka
    @Divine_Chareka Před rokem +4

    One would see a mountain when it was Ancalagon sleeping.

  • @hellofrend
    @hellofrend Před rokem +1

    This is actually really interesting topic 😃

  • @Trey-Farmhand-Suit
    @Trey-Farmhand-Suit Před rokem +4

    maybe Drogon was one of Balerion's eggs. Just a thought due to how similar the skulls look and both being black

  • @thorshammer7883
    @thorshammer7883 Před rokem +2

    I think Calamity Bahumat from Final Fantasy XIV would be a closer comparison with Ancalagon. Size also they are very close.

  • @mak4rno
    @mak4rno Před rokem

    A video that could be a picture. Yet, here I'm watching.

  • @loganpruitt7344
    @loganpruitt7344 Před rokem +4

    I wish we could get more of the ice dragons in got lore. Their said to be 3x the size of a fire dragons of old valaria

    • @trequanchi7708
      @trequanchi7708 Před rokem

      Are the ice dragons in the books?

    • @Tryingjoinaclan
      @Tryingjoinaclan Před rokem

      @@trequanchi7708 yes and they are very powerful, in the books they breath ice breath and when they die they melt into water

    • @trequanchi7708
      @trequanchi7708 Před rokem

      @@Tryingjoinaclan wow that’s dope I need them in the show

  • @positiveminds21
    @positiveminds21 Před rokem +2

    The part that smaug is bigger than vhagar and smaug is just size of ancalagon teeth

  • @faithmacgregor340
    @faithmacgregor340 Před rokem +3

    Someday I want to see a live action or quality animated scene of the war of wrath and marvel and the insanity.

    • @absolutezero6423
      @absolutezero6423 Před rokem +1

      Me too but I am not confident that the rights for stories from the Simarillion will be given up any time soon.

  • @cam1983
    @cam1983 Před rokem +12

    Dont forget The Cannibal is the same size if not bigger than Balerion

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před rokem

      No he not

    • @panakinskywalker9075
      @panakinskywalker9075 Před rokem +4

      @@alphagamer9505 yes actually he is

    • @peppaeyez5485
      @peppaeyez5485 Před rokem +3

      @@alphagamer9505 he is

    • @alphagamer9505
      @alphagamer9505 Před rokem

      @@panakinskywalker9075 during the dance Vhagar was the biggest Dragon, not Cannibal he was the second biggest, we don't know if cannibal died or if he alive during the main series time

    • @BIGJATPSU
      @BIGJATPSU Před rokem +9

      @@alphagamer9505 in truth no one really knows. According to legend The Cannibal was already on Dragonstone when The Targaryen's arrived in 114 BC with a newly hatched Balerion on the boat. Balerion died in 94 AC and yet The Cannibal is KNOWN to have been alive AFTER all the fighting in Dance of The Dragons was over, this is 40 years after Big B's death remember. That places The Cannibal AT LEAST around 248 years old! Now according to Maester's knowledge, a dragon will never stop growing if given the room and food to grow. If, IF now The Cannibal was indeed born around the same time as Balerion and was allowed to roam and eat as a wild dragon there is every chance he could very well be as big or even bigger than Balerion himself.

  • @theelysian1172
    @theelysian1172 Před rokem +3

    We need to get gendy tartakovsky to do a dragon show. No dialog, just emotion. He could make a good story out of it.

  • @zolarenard2246
    @zolarenard2246 Před rokem +8

    Ancalagon: "Hmmm. You dragons are tiny..."

  • @user-og2vd1kk1n
    @user-og2vd1kk1n Před rokem

    Mr. MindQ, The ultimate dragon is balerion, or ancalagon?

  • @hanyaochen426
    @hanyaochen426 Před rokem +2

    I'd say Ancalagon's height is 24,000 meters since he's big as a mountain.

  • @melmartinez7002
    @melmartinez7002 Před 3 měsíci +1

    Tolkien's dragons are such fundamentally different types of beings compared to Martin's dragons. Martins dragons, while having personalities, are more akin to giant flying, flame-breathing war-horses.. Tolkien's dragons, along with generally being larger, are most importantly, scheming, extremely intelligent war _generals_. They were independent-minded, clever and manipulative and could play the long game strategically. Glaurung, despite not being able to fly, was massive, like a giant, armored fire-breathing worm-shaped tank the size of a FedEx warehouse - and yet was probably most destructive due to his intelligence and the damage he wrought through mind games. And Tolkien's dragons were all essentially invulnerable to anything except the most exceptional of weapons used in very particular ways.

  • @aaronsmall1394
    @aaronsmall1394 Před 10 měsíci +1

    That is scary to see ancalagon vs balerion it ain't even close

  • @nagyattila1232
    @nagyattila1232 Před rokem +4

    It would have been better comparison, if you put a human for scaling and see the real size of the dragons :)

  • @NormanFreeman94
    @NormanFreeman94 Před rokem +2

    Come on man... Ancalagon wingspan would pretty much knock those wyvern out

  • @whitesage2066
    @whitesage2066 Před rokem +2

    Smaug was bigger than Balerion i think. We know wins since Smaug was the smallest and Smaug is scale way more harder than any dragon in Game of Thorones/H.O.D

  • @zarpp9411
    @zarpp9411 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Ancalagon drove back then ENTIRE host of Valinor with his attacks. Enough said...

  • @LogicExplained.
    @LogicExplained. Před 10 měsíci +1

    Ancalagon was 35,000 feet and bigger than the biggest mountains and it’s wing span would probably have crushes countries.

  • @Rama-Tut82
    @Rama-Tut82 Před rokem +1

    It is said when Ancalagon the black fly the sky darkens, thunder start to hir every where and wind blows like hell.

  • @drw_predator
    @drw_predator Před rokem +7

    Even Smug can defeat any dragon/all dragons in Song Of Ice & Fire
    GRRM himself said so in Interview

    • @continentalextinction
      @continentalextinction Před rokem

      source?

    • @drw_predator
      @drw_predator Před rokem

      @@continentalextinction so sorry man
      I can't Search and give you right now
      I'll try later
      Meanwhile you can see if there's any Search results coming up
      " George R R Martin on Game of Thrones"

    • @continentalextinction
      @continentalextinction Před rokem

      @@drw_predator I can't believe you if you're not gonna provide any source, I searched George RR Martin on Smaug and he never said anything about Smaug beating all dragons in asoiaf

    • @yeeweisa3899
      @yeeweisa3899 Před rokem

      czcams.com/video/kAR8H7x8wac/video.html

    • @yeeweisa3899
      @yeeweisa3899 Před rokem

      @@continentalextinction I found this one, may
      be this interview is what he said
      czcams.com/video/kAR8H7x8wac/video.html

  • @f00lxpl
    @f00lxpl Před rokem +9

    Drogon < Vhagar < Balerion < Smaug < Glaurung < Ancalagon < My Ex

  • @calebmorrow96
    @calebmorrow96 Před 2 měsíci

    So the Thangorodrim were each 35,000 ft tall. Comparatively larger than Everest. Everest takes up 12 square miles at the base, so the Thangorodrim should be at least that at the base. Add to that they are spaced out, and Ankalagon outclasses anything in Game of Thrones, the Monsterverse, and Cloverfield. Estimate: 20 miles long at minimum, 35-40 miles at Maximum.

  • @MasterOfTheElements
    @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem +3

    Smaug is actually 142 meters long with a 136 meter wingspan.

    • @aswinastro
      @aswinastro Před rokem

      Wait, how can the wingspan be shorter than the total length?

    • @MasterOfTheElements
      @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem

      @@aswinastro I don't know, it just js

    • @aswinastro
      @aswinastro Před rokem

      @@MasterOfTheElements Ok, thanks for the info. I found it weird because the wingspan of any animal, barring some species of bees is always greater than the body length, enabling an animal/bird to fly.

    • @MasterOfTheElements
      @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem +1

      @@aswinastro His wingspan is twice the size of a 747s which is 68 meters wide and multiply it by 2 you get 136 and his length is two 747s which have a 71 meter length so Smaug's length would be 142 meters long.

  • @breanna6257
    @breanna6257 Před rokem +1

    There’s the cannibal too

  • @nikkotan2840
    @nikkotan2840 Před rokem +8

    LoTR Dragons intelligence is in a whole other level they are not just intelligent they are smart, can think, and can talk. Can't compare a dog to a human, GoT Dragons are intelligent and has their own behavior but a dragon that can speak it just another level of intelligence. Belerion compare to Ancalagon would be a boulder vs a Mountain.

  • @095mateusg
    @095mateusg Před rokem +3

    Biggest GoT dragon is actually a wild dragon called the Cannibal.

    • @doctorpain9369
      @doctorpain9369 Před rokem +4

      Cannibal is not bigger than Vhagar, let alone Baleryon. We are going to see Cannibal in the upcoming season of HOTD so you can decide for yourself.

  • @mucioagustinmartinezzarago2649
    @mucioagustinmartinezzarago2649 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Balerion:i oviusly i confronted this dragons before
    Morgoth(melkor): hahaha
    ANCALAGON
    Ancalagon: *fly down and step on land* hi
    Balerion: *runs to walls of the coliseum*
    aegon |:whata you doing?!!
    Balerion:GET ME OUT OF HERE!!

  • @ryanwalker8843
    @ryanwalker8843 Před rokem +1

    At least this video mentions that the estimate of 58ft by Karen Wynn Fonstand is not canonical. Every single time there is a discussion of Smaug someone says 'the books say hes 58/59ft.' No they dont. A book not even written by Tolkien, written 8 years after he died, says it. We know its flat out wrong and much too small anyway because she took this size estimate by comparing Bilbo to Smaug in a piece of artwork. In letter 27 Tolkien actually talks about this same piece of artwork and how Bilbo is 'enormously too large' in it which would make her estimate for Smaug enormously too small. It's not canonical and never has been. Not only is it not canonical because Tolkien didnt write it but even when he was alive talks about the artwork saying Bilbo is too big to the point that he says 'Enormously' so. So all we can say for certain is, we dont know exactly how big Smaug is but we do know it's a lot more that 58ft

  • @adamtheninjasmith2985
    @adamtheninjasmith2985 Před rokem +2

    Ancalagon could almost eat drogon whole!

  • @stephenembry4038
    @stephenembry4038 Před rokem +2

    This would be a lob sided than vhgar vs baby dragon.

  • @ismata3274
    @ismata3274 Před rokem

    It's all well and good....
    But what did anchalagon eat? rocks?

  • @Krishnakumar-wl7ih
    @Krishnakumar-wl7ih Před rokem +2

    LOTR had dragons the size of islands and mountains, not aeroplane sized dragons of Song of InF

  • @Bill-en7kw
    @Bill-en7kw Před rokem

    it is said when ancalagon fell, every topographical map needed to be altered

  • @The_SixShooter
    @The_SixShooter Před rokem

    U should noticed two legged with wings are all wyverns suppose to be little bit smaller and true dragon come with 4 legged and big wings is the big ones, different type of species.

  • @Bitchslapper316
    @Bitchslapper316 Před rokem +4

    Smaug being a small dragon is larger than anything in ASOIAF. He also far smarter.

    • @doctorpain9369
      @doctorpain9369 Před rokem

      But ASOIAF dragons feels more realistic which makes them better and scarier. LOTR dragons were made too op and too intelligent. They don't do shit. They are more of gods than dragons.

    • @doctorpain9369
      @doctorpain9369 Před rokem

      @Filipe I did not say they are real, I said they SEEM MORE REALISTIC meaning more believable. Fire breathing is too much, so let's take it away from all of our dragons, as it is common in them. Now, Think to yourself which of them kind would more likely to have once reside here? Godzilla sized dragons that can even speak and more intelligenct than human or Jurassic park sized dragon that is more animalistic?

  • @joelomar
    @joelomar Před rokem +2

    Your scale says Ancalagon was 1000 feet in size but isn't 1km actually 1000 meters?

    • @calmora8422
      @calmora8422 Před rokem

      Yeh he got the size wrong,Ancalagon was called the mountain dragon for a reason

    • @ibrahimsurti4922
      @ibrahimsurti4922 Před rokem +4

      He was bigger that three peaks of thonodrin
      the total space between those peaks was 35 miles.........so ancalgon was not even a dragon, it was pretty much a flying disaster
      If earendil and manhwes eagles did not kill him, it would have shattered the middle earth in half

    • @parzival7996
      @parzival7996 Před rokem

      @@ibrahimsurti4922 if Ancalagon was that big the air pressure generated from the beating of its wings would deafen people and cause large scale disasters.

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 Před rokem

      @@parzival7996 it’s likely what happened since most of beleriand got sunk after the war of wrath

  • @jacobbelfegor8761
    @jacobbelfegor8761 Před rokem

    Imagine anacalagon Ride by John Snow 😁😁

  • @birinderwarraich1179
    @birinderwarraich1179 Před rokem

    When ancalagon fell he took with him thangorodrim from his fall.

  • @made-line7627
    @made-line7627 Před 6 měsíci

    Balerion was brought to Westeros by Aenar Targaryen, not Aegon. Still, beautiful video

  • @catharinabecker5076
    @catharinabecker5076 Před 2 měsíci

    Smaug is not 427 feet, that he is 400 feet is say or wrote for the film. if you compare his size to Bilbo (hobbits are 60 cm - 120 cm) the film version is 30 meter (in the In The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad he is 18 meters (59 feet) in length )... i wold say this is to small for him... other sources say he is around the size of the front gate of the lonly mountien, around 50 meter what is i think a good size for him

  • @MasterOfTheElements
    @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem +18

    I think Balerion and Vhagar are closest to Smaug in size, or equal to him.

    • @szynszylku1447
      @szynszylku1447 Před rokem +11

      well nah, if we take movie smaug he is about 130 meters long while LARGEST GOT dragon to ever live is/was Cannibal ~53 meters long so yeaaaaaa Smaug would have a good meal

    • @MasterOfTheElements
      @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem +1

      @@szynszylku1447 Where does it say that Cannibal is the largest dragon and where does it say that he's 53 meters long?

    • @szynszylku1447
      @szynszylku1447 Před rokem +4

      @@MasterOfTheElements well in the books Cannibal is only wild dragon to be never captured so according to that Cannibal should be even bigger than Balarion since Balarion was in chains for 40 years if you ask from the size of his skull balarion is around 126 feet tall so around 35 meters so yeaaaaa

    • @MasterOfTheElements
      @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem +2

      @@szynszylku1447 we're not talking about game of thrones, Balerion's skull in House Of The Dragon is 3 times bigger than Drogon's head, that would make Balerion 3 times larger than S7 Drogon and he was at least 35-40 meters long multiply that by 3 and you've got a 120 meter long dragon.

    • @szynszylku1447
      @szynszylku1447 Před rokem +2

      @@MasterOfTheElements well no, people comapred balerion skull to drogon skull and from the calculations he isin't that big, actually it is siad that he is the size of 747 which would put him at around 76 meters so that is still waaaay to small to give smaug a good challange

  • @GuerillaxMoB
    @GuerillaxMoB Před rokem +2

    How does Ancalagon compare to Ghidorah?

    • @jakealter5504
      @jakealter5504 Před rokem

      It depends on which version of ghidorah is used

  • @King-CosmoAlpha1
    @King-CosmoAlpha1 Před 10 měsíci +1

    Ancalagon is on a different level than most of the dragons from the got universe he would pretty much destroy them in a couple of hours

  • @keroro407
    @keroro407 Před rokem +2

    How big is Ancalagon? Big enough to destroy a mountain when he fell.

  • @rehanahmed8466
    @rehanahmed8466 Před rokem +4

    you have not heard of the Cannibal Balerion was as big as cannbial's one wing and there were dragons far bigger than Balerion in valyria Teerax a dragon of house baleryes of vlayria Balerion is as big as Teerax one leg so i think if we are going to compare middle earth biggest dragons we should also compare Game of thrones world biggest dragons and balerion isn't the biggest one and smaug is much much smaller than balerion idk where didi you get that estimation

    • @jamessmith-db2is
      @jamessmith-db2is Před rokem

      Still not as big as ancalagon, when he fell from the sky he crushed 3 mountain peaks

    • @continentalextinction
      @continentalextinction Před rokem

      @@jamessmith-db2is and Smaug destroyed lake town from his fall and Smaug is obviously not as big as lake town, Ancalagon destroyed 3 mountain peaks because of the impact not because of his size

    • @jamessmith-db2is
      @jamessmith-db2is Před rokem +2

      @@continentalextinction smaug didn't destroy lake town with his fall though did he, he probably crush 1/4 of it, his fire destroyed most of it, ancalagon did take out 3 mountain peaks though, while it never states how big the mountains were ancalagon was ridiculously massive, also the cannibal is never stated to be bigger than balerion it also definitely never states balerion was as big as one of the cannibals wings also there's next to know description of old valeriyan dragons especially teerax, fact is middle earth dragons made GoT look tiny

    • @Rama-Tut82
      @Rama-Tut82 Před rokem

      There is no Dragon bigger or as big as Ancalagon in valyria.
      Ancalagon the black is not juste a big ass dragon but it is also very intelligent. He leads the other dragons in combat like a general leads his army in combat.
      When he fly he bring a dustructive weather with him.
      Smaug and Balerion are around the same size.
      Smaug can sleep in Ancalagon the blacks mouth so big is Ancalagon
      Ancalagon does not need to eat, drink... Thy have a life span so long that no one can say if thy can ever die by age.

  • @juanchoguerrero9143
    @juanchoguerrero9143 Před rokem

    Please do a video what if Glaurung met Daenerys Targaryen please

    • @Snow-lv4bk
      @Snow-lv4bk Před rokem +6

      Like a video about Glaurung's lunch?

    • @TheGodofChaosItself184
      @TheGodofChaosItself184 Před rokem +3

      I have heard and seen enough about glaurung to see where this is going.

  • @januhelj3796
    @januhelj3796 Před rokem +1

    vhagar was as large as Balerion at the time of conquest, Blaerion grew from then

  • @marcelfranzen233
    @marcelfranzen233 Před rokem +1

    According to the producers, Vhagar is 150m long

  • @ihsanaras7832
    @ihsanaras7832 Před rokem

    King Ghidorah vs Balerion please.

  • @chelsielundy8762
    @chelsielundy8762 Před 6 měsíci

    For games of thrones, you can’t forget that dragons became the size of cats. There were many theories why this happened but magic was a huge part of it. The dragons can’t become large without certain factors unlike tolkien.

  • @jacksonkingdom5367
    @jacksonkingdom5367 Před rokem +1

    For some reason i just like How ASOIAF and GOT depicts dragons more than LOTR, dont hate me for that.

  • @hype5471
    @hype5471 Před rokem

    bruh, when ancalagon fell, his body destroyed 3 (if i remember correctly) mountains. is there even a need to compare?

  • @abhinavhajra
    @abhinavhajra Před rokem

    Lets bring in the dragons from the HTTYD franchise as well.

  • @GarrelTodd
    @GarrelTodd Před měsícem

    Tolkien's Dragons could speak. They were not just "animals" that followed a master like a dog (like in GOT and HOTD). They had wisdom and cleverness, and the gift of speech. Plus Ancalagon was described to have had colossal wings, and can do devastating aerial attacks, and while the dragons of ASOIAF are dangerous only in their world, they cannot compare to most other fantasy dragons, most especially, Ancalagon, who is arguably bigger and is an actual dragon. Balerion, based on description, is a wyvern. Ancalagon is the size of a mountain! To defeat him, a group of eagles and the intervention of Eärendil and his flying ship, and the Valar were needed.
    So, there's no contest. Tolkien's dragons would win, hands down

  • @siegtv9305
    @siegtv9305 Před rokem

    Ancalagon is a freaking kaiju

  • @nukedpyro
    @nukedpyro Před 6 měsíci

    Imma still say that the elder scrolls dragons are even above Ancalagon. Might be smaller but holy shit dragons who are literally immortal unless killed by another of their kind and they can just alter space and time with their voice.

  • @vincentmattis530
    @vincentmattis530 Před 5 měsíci

    If Balerion could swallow a Mamoth whole, then Ancalagon could swallow a dragon whole

  • @nasserparsa6980
    @nasserparsa6980 Před 9 měsíci

    Smaug ❤❤❤

  • @michaelwilkerson7990
    @michaelwilkerson7990 Před rokem +3

    Ummm Smaug is colossal to the GOT dragons..

  • @lexxrelaxx2016
    @lexxrelaxx2016 Před rokem +1

    So ancalagon can swallow any got dragons alive?

    • @drw_predator
      @drw_predator Před rokem

      GoT dragons and other Dragons in Middle Earth or any other universes (except for Ghidorah) are youngling to Ancalagon's eyes
      Lion playing with mice

  • @Flobann
    @Flobann Před rokem +1

    in got there is a wild dragon "the cannibal" who, due to his age, was estimate to be even bigger than balerion so, to be precise there is a got dragon between smaug and glaurung (some guys says that he could be twice bigger than balerion so.. close to ancalagon but fr i think its a bit too much)

    • @Thomas-um5pv
      @Thomas-um5pv Před rokem +2

      even twice the size of balerion it's not even close to ancalagon

    • @MasterOfTheElements
      @MasterOfTheElements Před rokem

      Cannibal is not larger than Balerion, it's just a rumour made up by peasants. Vhagar is the largest dragon in the world during hotd, Vermithor is the second largest dragon and Cannibal is probably the third largest.

  • @timcantila4516
    @timcantila4516 Před rokem

    Game of thrones would be like the fourth age of Tolkien's world where magic left middle earth

  • @lactoseandintolerant7601

    Ancalagon crushed a mountain range when he fell. So he was massive. GOT dragons are mice to him.

  • @unholystar5728
    @unholystar5728 Před rokem

    and now....galakrond or deathwing's madness

  • @lDoxology
    @lDoxology Před rokem

    Ancalagon, that's it, that's all.

  • @lordtoe666
    @lordtoe666 Před rokem +3

    Not a close comparison.

  • @danielwells1734
    @danielwells1734 Před 6 měsíci

    Ancalagon is big, but is he bigger than Galakrond from World of Warcraft? Big G was massive, and was only taken down by 5 smaller drakes who had help from a stone/metal construct made by aliens.

    • @ethanquirk28
      @ethanquirk28 Před 5 měsíci

      The best size comparison I can find for Galakrond is that he was bigger than a mountain. Ancalagon was so utterly massive that upon being defeated he landed on the entirety of the Thangorodrim. That is to say his body was not only the size of a mountain, but the size of the entire mountain range. The three peaks of the Thangorodrim were each larger than Everest and they all shattered under the impact of him landing on them

  • @nouminey
    @nouminey Před rokem

    Drogon wasnt/isnt fully grown so its hard to compare it to Balerion

  • @neiloconnor7776
    @neiloconnor7776 Před rokem

    There’s a dragon in asoiaf called the cannibal it’s larger than belarion but even smaug is larger middle earth dragons are just better

  • @thechaosinstigator9924
    @thechaosinstigator9924 Před rokem +1

    The smallest dragon of the west is bigger than the biggest dragon in game of thrones 💀

  • @emmanuelijomah8163
    @emmanuelijomah8163 Před 5 měsíci

    You're forgetting Balerion was the biggest in Targaryen history
    But they were not even considered in the top 57 families of Valeria those families all had dragons wae bigger compared to Balerion
    And the biggest George rr Martin spoke of was when the Valerian Prince decided to go back to Valeria with his army 400,000 long and dragons that could be considered as mountains
    He personally mounted the biggest black drake in Valeria's history that Balerion looked like a hatchling compared to the size of that great beast
    Plus we don't truly know if he failed in his conquest
    I mean come to think of it what if the found a way to rebuild Valeria then in doing so the became hostile to intruders and probably developed weapons capable of fatally wounding fire worms that should explain how that little girl who stole Balerion returned with the Burning curse as her take away gift
    But reguarding the dragons Ancalagon is still the biggest
    I'm just saying that the dragon ridden by the prince would be definitely bigger than smoug

  • @unholyrevenger72
    @unholyrevenger72 Před rokem

    Ancalagon sunk a chunk of a continent when he fell it's not even close.

  • @s.sarjonmahmud6231
    @s.sarjonmahmud6231 Před rokem

    Even the cute little small Smaug is way bigger than Balerion

    • @GreenFalcon926
      @GreenFalcon926 Před rokem

      He isn't. The guy who made this video is wrong and didn't do his research. Vhagar is 500 feet long, as confirmed by the FX team, and Balerion is at least 20% bigger than her. Putting him at 600 feet long. He towers over Smaug.

    • @hardcoreplays1489
      @hardcoreplays1489 Před rokem

      and again smaug in books only 50meters long witch just a very very little larger than drogon

  • @jithinraj4254
    @jithinraj4254 Před rokem +1

    King Ghidorah?

  • @TheOther644
    @TheOther644 Před rokem

    Smaug is longer the Balerion, but I believe Balerion is a lot wider and possibly physically stronger. But still Glaurung would eat Balerion and Ancalagon would eat them both.

    • @bloodangel19
      @bloodangel19 Před rokem +5

      Problem is Balerion is smart, but only as smart as a dog or maybe a chimp, while Smaug is smarter and wiser than most humans would be, so the dread could get out played.

    • @TheOther644
      @TheOther644 Před rokem +1

      @@bloodangel19 Very true, though I think a chimp would be smarter then Balerion.

  • @silence1994
    @silence1994 Před rokem

    Ancalagon dwarfed the 3 highest peaks of middle earth

  • @Inaresco
    @Inaresco Před rokem

    Ive come to learn that even if theyre wrong lotr fans will insist until their dying day that their franchise beats everything and everyone at everything that ever was.