Before we do a “House of the Dragon” flyby to examine its place in high fantasy’s conquest of TV and film, let’s talk about Sheepstealer.
The “Game of Thrones” prequel boasts many dragons, most of them bound to the Targaryen royal bloodline. You could sing their names in a tune set to the intro melody of “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” if you wanted: “There’s Caraxes and Syrax and Vhagar and Vermax/ Sunfyre and Dreamfyre and a dead one called Arrax . . .”
