Worms

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

Inspiration

Worm is an actual old word for dragon,[1] derived from Old English wyrm, Old Norse ormr ("serpent").

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