Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-27882401-20160810055705/@comment-26556622-20160812103701

TheodenOfRohan wrote: Celeborn of Lothlorien wrote: There is no such thing as good dragons, secondly you're suggesting an extremely hard to make AI. Dragons can't be ridden, even during the war of wrath in yee olden days the dragons only let Balrogs ride their backs and that was purely because they were forced into it pretty much. Dragons were also never said to have existed anywhere else than the grey mountains and the withered heath because that's where they fled after the hell of iron was absolutely destroyed by the valar. Balrogs riding on dragons...Jesus. I would run the opposite direction if I saw those on the battlefield.

Yeah pretty much, their tempest of fire was so great that the elves of gondolin actually mistook it for the setting sun but it came from the north not the west... So it was too late before they realized that the most destructive army in the history of middle earth was rolling into Tumladen. They were held off for a while at the walls but eventually tore down the tower of the King while he resisted their might giving most of the citizens the time to escape through secret mountain passes to the south. During the war of wrath it was probably even worse, think giant skybattle with balrogs on dragons and eagles everywhere and a flying ship and spirits and normal birds etc. All fighting, no wonder Beleriand sunk into the waves afterwards.