What is the name of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fictional dragon in Farmer Giles of Ham?

Chrysophylax Dives is the dragon in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham.

Farmer Giles of Ham is a comic fairy tale first published in 1949. Its hero is a reluctant farmer who becomes celebrated after driving away an unexpectedly troublesome creature. The dragon Chrysophylax Dives arrives in the region, and Giles’s accidental reputation eventually draws him into a confrontation with the beast.

The story is deliberately lighter and more satirical than Tolkien’s major Middle-earth narratives. Its dragon is vain, greedy, boastful, and capable of speech, allowing Tolkien to play with traditional dragon-story conventions. The Latin-style name suggests wealth and grandeur, fitting the creature’s love of treasure.

Chrysophylax is often confused with Tolkien’s better-known dragons. Smaug appears in The Hobbit, Glaurung is the chief dragon of The Children of Húrin, and Ancalagon the Black belongs to the First Age. They are separate characters from different stories and periods of Tolkien’s fiction.