TLDR, Glaurung was created by Morgoth during the First Age as seen in the Silmarillion, and is a major antagonist in his own right. A lot of illustrations tend to portray him as being particularly heavyset, but I’ve always thought it fun to model him after a rattlesnake, especially given their muscular coils. That thinking also went into his face, where it blended with a bit of bulldog to reference the amount of breeding that went into making him. I also gave him oversized arms; Glaurung himself couldn’t fly, and winged dragons wouldn’t arrive for centuries, but I had to imagine that end goal was in Morgoth’s mind from the start.
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