Myths, legends and folklore

Lizards with burning skins are not properly called pyroderms but salamanders. At least that's what they were in medieval times.

A favourite is hard to choose. I like more elegant, beautiful, whimsical stuff like phoenixes and unicorns and the like. And I prefer it when folklore creatures are friendly, as opposed to monsters that should be feared (although good folklore ha a balance of both).

speaking of which

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Dragons, griffons, firelizards, unicorns, centaurs and pegasus' would be my favourite creatures, as for legends/myths I suppose it would depend on how far back you want to go. The Happy Prince is a story written in 1888, by Oscar Wilde. When I saw this animation as a kid, I fell in love with the story:


There is also the story of Riki Tiki Tavi from The Jungle Book, written by Rudyard Kipling in 1894 :


But if you mean favourite that goes back further and is a part of folklore/ancient mythology ... hmmm... I think the stories of Athena and Artemis are some of my favourites. I really enjoy most Greek/Roman myths.

I love TES orcs even though I know little about them. 

I think one of the first person to use the word "orc" was Blake; he named one of his gods "Orc." Though interestingly, Orc was a good god, not an evil, scary one.

To answer first post: My favorite mythological creature will always be the dragon. I've been obsessed with dragons since I was a child; I used to collect statues and such of dragons, and I was a massive Dragonriders of Pern fan (still waiting for the mini-series, hello!)

Nothing compares to dragons for me. I wish there were more novels with sentient, shape-shifting dragons because those are my favorite kinds.

My favorite myth, hmm, there are so many, mostly Greek/Roman (cause it's what I know best). Obviously I love Artemis; love how she murdered a guy just for looking at her naked. Also surrounded herself with sexy nymphs and was like a Friend to the animals, so, #goals. But the hunting of Actean is definitely a favorite.

Apollo and Hyacinth breaks my heart, forever and always. 

Dionysus and Eurydice. 

Cupid and Psyche, ahh... especially Apuleius' version (which may be the first, written down?). Yes, definitely, that one's my favorite. I love how Cupid is the one taken, and Psyche is the one who must "rescue" him (sort of). A reverse trope. 

Okay, I really like romance.

The dragons and firelizards of Pern are my favorite, they're what got me into loving dragons, then there was Draco in Dragonheart and yeah, I prefer the stories that have dragons as sentient, molevolent companions.   

As far as myths go, I generally like stories involving trickster and thief archetypes and that carries over into the contemporary fiction I like to read as well.

The ending of Dragonheart always makes me tear up too. The Narration and the question "What will we do, where will we turn?" and the answer "To the stars, Bowen, look to the starts..." OMG...it still gets to me, just thinking about it. It's one of the very few movies that ever got to me that way, I'm always guaranteed to mist up over it. Sean Connery did such a good job as Draco.  

Yup...David Thewlis played both King Einon and Professor Lupin. He's done other stuff too. Saw him in a remake of The Island of Doctor Moreau and in Dinotopia.

And yeah that dragon name comment was cute, there were a lot of good banters between Draco and Bowen though...poor Sir Eggelmore! And poor Draco when they got to that village and he couldn't sink to the bottom of that pond..."Meat! Meat!" It was a fun show, Dennis Quaid, Dina Meyer and Pete Postlethwaite were also all pretty good. 

And yup, Draco got his place amongst the stars...   ...awwww...that ending... 

Yes, I did see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, another fun show. That kind of story is right up my alley, actually. Things like VanHelsing, Hellboy, Dragonheart...or anything sci-fi like the Alien or Predator movies. 

Oh, Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter, along with Percy Jackson and The Chronicles of Narnia are also shows I can get into. Hunger Games, Maze Runner and Ready Player One was good also. PERN will always be my favourite fantasy world though, I think. Anne McCaffery put together a really fascinating world with that series...and I agree, I REALLY want to see it come out in a movie series or a t.v. mini-series.

Using movie quotes are fun in everyday life, I've been known to do the same thing here.   I'm sorry you get nightmares, I really have that issue, but then again, I'm old and I'm used to all kinds of different programs/movies, I don't think I take things to heart as much as some people do.