John Ronald was a boy who loved horses.

And trees.

And strange sounding words.

But most of all, John Ronald loved dragons.

Before J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The Hobbit, he was a young boy who saw dragons in the world all around him. The idea of dragons thrilled him. He liked to Imagine Dragons when he was alone, and with his friends, and when life got hard or sad. But as much as he looked for a dragon, he never actually found one, until one day, when he was a grown man, but still very much a boy at heart, he decided to create one of his own.