Cold-drakes
Cold-drakes were dragons that were unable to breath fire, but instead could possess an icy "cold breath" which froze people and induced fear. Morgoth bred and used cold-drakes in the late First Age. After the War of Wrath, some cold-drakes were found in the waste north of the Grey Mountains.
As the millennia passed, their numbers grew, until they became a serious threat in the later centuries of the Third Age to the Dwarves that mined the Grey Mountains. In Third Age 2589, Dáin I, King of Durin's Folk, and his second son Frór were slain at the gates of their hall by a cold-drake. The attacks of these fearsome creatures persuaded the Dwarves to migrate eastwards from the Grey Mountains, and it was soon afterward that their realms in the Iron Hills and at Erebor were established.
Portrayal in adaptations
2018: The Lord of the Rings Online:
Cold-drakes appear throughout the northern lands of Middle-earth, particularly in the Ered Mithrin where they serve "Hrímil Frost-Heart", a dragon who consumed one of the dwarven Rings of Power. Hrímil's mightiest spawn, the cold-drake "Vethúg Wintermind", was the one to slay King Dáin I and his son Frór in Thikil-gundu, "The Steel Keep" (otherwise known as Dáin's Halls). The game's cold-drakes often project icy breath, even though the exact nature of the "cold breath" of Tolkien's cold-drakes is simply not known.
Referencias
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