Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-31382381-20170307121858/@comment-31370220-20170311093331

RevaulRen wrote: Gateway says: "Although Smaug was the greatest of the dragons of his day,[7] he seems not to have been the last of his kind as Gandalf told Frodo that "there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough [to melt the Rings of Power]",[8] indicating the presence of other, lesser dragons.[9]"

To Esquire: And I suppose you have a ring-forging theory besides mechanised beings? The fact is, Tolkien did not speak on ring-forging. Yet, ring-forging is a planned feature. Read the list. Anything we plan for ring-forging is non-canon.

It's just a question of "the lesser evil" or the more legitimate theory. Indeed, but that would require a wide consensus, one which I am not seeing here... I further wish to add that this was an abstractly informational statement on my part- I am not nearly well enough familiar to give my concrete opinion.