Contents (view Concise Listing)

• Foreword (Forging Dragons) • essay by Guillermo Del Toro
• 4 •  Forging Dragons (title page) • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Ring of Five Dragons)
• 17 •  Red Nails Artwork • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Conan Chronicles Volume 2: The Hour of the Dragon)
• 20 •  Blue Dragon • (2005) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for De thuiskomst)
• 28 •  Marduk • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Universe 2001)
• 40 •  Ouroboros • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Myth & Magic: The Art of John Howe [3])
• 46 •  The Wyrm • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Nidhoggr)
• 48 •  The Death of Smaug • (1998) • interior artwork by John Howe
• 61 •  Beowulf: The Dragon's Rampage • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Slow Dragon 2007)
• 64 •  Beowulf's Final Struggle • (2007) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for Beowulf: A Tale of Blood, Heat, and Ashes)
• 76 •  St. George's Dragon • (2005) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Hour of The Gate)
• 80 •  Tristan and Isolde • (2007) • interior artwork by John Howe
• 81 •  The Red Cross Knight • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of The Red Cross and the Dragon)
• 83 •  Lancelot's Dragon • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for John Howe Fantasy Art Workshop)
• 87 •  Dragons of Other Worlds • (1992) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Book of Lost Tales Part II)
• 87 •  Melusine • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe
• 91 •  Sea Serpent • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Myth & Magic: The Art of John Howe [2])
• 91 •  The Liveship Vivacia • (1998) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for Ship of Magic)
• 94 •  Soulmonger • (1992) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Wandering Fire)
• 100 •  Earthsea Dragons • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Galapagos 2001)
• 105 •  Assassin's Quest • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for Assassin's Quest 1997)
• 107 •  Icefyre and the Stone Dragon • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Fool's Fate 2007)
• 109 •  The Map of The Hobbit • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Map of Tolkien's 'The Hobbit' 1995)
• 111 •  Bilbo the Burglar • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Smaug sketch 2001)
• 113 •  Smaug the Golden • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Hobbit 1991)
• 114 •  Eowyn Kills the Fell Beast • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Eowyn and the Nazgûl 2001)
• 116 •  Barad-Dûr • (2007) • interior artwork by John Howe
• 119 •  The Witch-King • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Two Towers 2001)
• 121 •  The Killing of Glauring • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of Turambar and Glorund 2001)
• 124 •  Nienor and Glaurung • (2001) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The War of the Jewels 1996)
• bc •  Forging Dragons (back cover) • interior artwork by John Howe (variant of cover art for The Wandering Fire 1992)