The strange attraction to dragons

[Narya]

That may be part of it, Fool-ish, being able to live vicariously in a world that has dragons (or assassins or pirates) and enjoying it without having to be personally afraid of being, say, abruptly killed. Reminds me of the Michael Critchton book, "Timeline", in which several historians with a highly romantic idea of going back in time to an earlier age find out just how horrific and short life was back then. Same theme in "Jurassic Park", except that the dinosaurs are brought forward to our time.

But there is something glamourous about dragons. Perhaps the desire to be a dragon - intelligent, powerful, autonymous, and disdainful.

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Though Icefyre seems very un-dragon-like in his loneliness and dispair.