Worms

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Worm's Stench by Kevin Ward

Worms was a name for the race of Dragons, and especially those wingless kinds (such as Glaurung himself) who crawled on the ground.

Names

In Gnomish, one of Tolkien's early conceptions of an Elven language, "worm" is gwem.[1]

Inspiration

Worm is an actual old word for dragon,[2] derived from Old English wyrm, Old Norse ormr ("serpent").

References