For two centuries, Smaug ruled the Lonely Mountain uncontested. He spent his days within the mountain lying atop his great treasure hoard, which he guarded jealously. The surrounding domain became a scarred wasteland known to the Dwarves and men as the "Desolation of Smaug.
Bilbo, the company's appointed "burglar," was sent into the treasure chamber alone in an attempt to stealthily gather information and steal what he can without waking Smaug. Once inside, Bilbo was surprised to find that Smaug was much larger than he had expected and covered in impenetrable armor, save for his underbelly. Aware of this vulnerability, Smaug deliberately had spent years sprawled on the wealth of his hoard, allowing diamonds and hard gemstones to be embedded into his belly, armoring his only weakness.
However, while examining the dragon, Bilbo noticed a single bare patch on the monster's left breast, nearest his heart. With this invaluable information, he escaped the dragon's lair and returned to the Dwarves, sharing his discovery of Smaug's weakness with them, unaware that he was overheard by a thrush , who carried the secret to Bard the Bowman in nearby Esgaroth , the city known as "Lake-town".
Returning to the treasure chamber, Bilbo attempted to steal a single cup, but its theft is immediately noticed by Smaug, who had woken from his slumber. Amused by the Hobbit, Smaug conversed with Bilbo, attempting to deduce his origins and purpose in the mountain. He quickly surmised that Bilbo was aiding Thorin and the rest of the Dwarf company in an attempt to steal back the Arkenstone and reclaim the Mountain.
Smaug flew into a rage, erupting from the mountain in a fiery wrath and loosening his flame upon the land. He turned his fury on Lake-town upon the Long Lake and set about razing it.
Amidst the havoc, Bard the Bowman, heir to the throne of Dale, did his best to rally the townsmen to repel the dragon's assault, but their arrows could do little against the dragon's armor. Then, Bard, having been informed by a thrush of Smaug's secret weakness, fired a black arrow into the vulnerable spot on the dragon's belly. Roaring in fury and pain, Smaug fell from the sky and plummeted into the flaming ruins of Lake-town, his death marked the end of the great dragons in Middle Earth.
After Smaug's death, Thorin and Company claimed the treasures of the Lonely Mountain as theirs by birth right. This created a conflict with Bard and the Elvenking Thranduil of Mirkwood, each of whom wanted a portion of the gold as reimbursement for all the damage Smaug had caused to their peoples over the years. Thorin refused to share the treasure and, as a result, they both declared war on him. It is said that a vast fortune in gemstones lay with Smaug's rotting carcass amongst the pilings of old Lake-town, but few had the courage to dive for them in later years.
Gandalf would later note the good fortune of the dragon's destruction, as otherwise Smaug might have proved a serious menace in the War of the Ring.
In Slavic cultures, 'Smok' "serpent" and 'Tsmok' "sucker" have been used as aliases for "dragons". During the conversation between Smaug and Bilbo, Bilbo calls him several names and epithets, such as Smaug the :.
Smaug's actual size is unknown as it is never explicitly mentioned in The Hobbit , and illustrations by Tolkien, Alan Lee , and John Howe greatly vary in size in each portrait while the size of the front gate of the dwarven kingdom in illustrations seems similar to what was depicted in the live action films. In The Atlas of Middle-earth by Karen Wynn Fonstad , Smaug is said to be about 18 meters 59 feet in length, but this is to be considered non-canonical.
Tolkien gives some indication later of the dragon's size in relation to the depiction of Bilbo as portrayed in the original illustration for The Hobbit in Letter 27 , which was published in The Letters of J. Tolkien :. One of few other descriptions available by Tolkien is that the Secret Tunnel , with 5 feet tall door and passage wide enough for three people to walk together, was too small for the dragon even when he was young, and he could only put the tip of his jaw into the passage when he was grown and breathed out fire and vapor not from his jaw but from his nostrils instead.
It is unclear whether Smaug, the largest specimen in the Third Age, would compete in mightiness to his ancestors of average size in the First Age , though he was clearly smaller than Ancalagon , the largest known dragon to have existed. Being a fully-grown dragon, Smaug was both massive and powerful, possessing physical strength capable of crushing stone with ease, as seen by his attack on the Lonely Mountain. He was able to fly thanks to his large wings, and had the ability to breathe streams of searing hot flame and vapour from his mouth and nostrils.
Some comments in The Hobbit imply that his entire body was imbued with fire, as he was seen to glow in the darkness of the Lonely Mountain's depths, and his usual paths were said to have been "smoothed and slimed" i. Like many dragons of Middle-earth, Smaug's monstrous appearance also belied keen senses and a dangerously sharp mind.
He had an encyclopedic knowledge of his treasure hoard, immediately registering the theft of a single cup after Bilbo made his first visit to his lair. When the hobbit returned a second time, Smaug was already expecting him by feigning sleep, and immediately declared that he could sense the thief even if he could not see him. Although Bilbo was clever enough not to fall for Smaug's attempts to trick him into revealing his exact position, the dragon used the resulting conversation to plant doubts in Bilbo's mind, correctly guessing that the "burglar" had allied himself with the Dwarves and the men of Lake Town and asking if Bilbo had ever considered the logistical difficulties of getting his share of Smaug's treasure back to his home.
Despite his size, Smaug is shown to be agile and quick, able to leap over objects with ease, and he can dive at very high speeds with little effort. Defensively, Smaug's reddish-gold scales rendered him impervious to nearly all weapons, but his underbelly was relatively soft and vulnerable. To compensate for this, Smaug took to sleeping upon the gathered treasure of the Lonely Mountain, allowing bits of gold and jewels to embed themselves in his body.
This "diamond waistcoat" was intended to cover his only physical weak spot, but when Bilbo Baggins confronted the dragon in his lair, he discovered a bare patch on the left side of his chest. Bard was told this by an ancient thrush that overheard Bilbo relating this information to the Dwarves, enabling him to defeat Smaug by shooting his Black Arrow into the bare patch.
Smaug is shown to be, though highly intelligent, violent, cruel, arrogant, and greedy, possessing an unquenchable desire for gold.
His most distinguishing characteristic aside from his greed is his arrogance, as Smaug proudly boasts of his superiority and impregnability to Bilbo during their encounter. However, this proves to be his downfall, as he unwittingly reveals the weak spot in his chest to Bilbo when showing the Hobbit how he had willfully coated his underbelly in treasure to protect it.
Smaug seems primarily motivated by personal greed rather than a desire to do evil, and does not seem to serve any allegiance other than his own. While he does ruthlessly destroy Dale and lays waste to the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain during his attack on the Lonely Mountain, once he has assumed dominion of the region he seems content to allow the rest of Middle Earth to go about its business, so long as he or his treasure remains undisturbed; although this could be because he feels that the people living in the region have nothing he wants.
Highly intelligent, Smaug appears to possess a rather sardonic sense of humor, darkly mocking Bilbo while they converse within the Lonely Mountain's treasure chamber. While conversing with Bilbo, Smaug is also able to quickly surmise the reason for Bilbo's presence in Erebor, and also correctly deduces that the Dwarves received aid from the men of Esgaroth in reaching the mountain.
Although Smaug makes no appearance in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he is indirectly mentioned by Gandalf during his conversation with Frodo near the beginning of the The Fellowship of the Ring. When Frodo jokingly tells Gandalf that the other hobbits have officially labelled him a "disturber of the peace", Gandalf responds with "if you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved".
Additionally, when Gandalf visits Bag End, he picks up the old map of the Lonely Mountain from Bilbo's desk, which has an illustration of Smaug on it. Smaug is voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch in Peter Jackson's three part adaptation of The Hobbit.
Smaug is presented with a long, serpentine neck; a crest of spurs on his head; a crocodilian facial shape; a compact torso with a streamlined shape; spines and spikes along his back and the back of his neck; stocky hind-legs; a very long tail; mostly dark-red scales which turn dull-golden on his underside; and gleaming, orange-yellow eyes coloured like fire, with slit-pupils which possess an intricate, keyhole-like shape.
He has a deep, resonant voice with an underlying growl. He appears in the prologue of the first film, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey , described as a "fire drake from the north" before taking residence in the Lonely Mountain. Only small parts of him are glimpsed throughout the film: his legs, tail, a small part of his head, and his wings as he flies over Dale, and his eye when he is sleeping in his mound of treasure, in the final scene.
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Who is the clue-finder, the web-cutter, the stinging fly? Bilbo and the dwarves must hide inside the mountain. What did Bilbo do with it? The armour of iron scales and hard gems is what Smaug has added to himself; in essence, he's created a strong area, rather than developing a weak s Eventually, Bilbo fought off his inner-dragon and tries to prevent a war between the humans and elves versus the dwarves by giving up the precious gem.
Further detail about this can be seen here. Why did Thorin tell Bilbo to leave the thrush alone? He convinces Smaug to show him the strength of the armor on his belly. Smaug then displays the area because of … 9. Bilbo has also developed the skills of a true leader since all the dwarves count on him to sneak around and outsmart Smaug to find his weak point. Still enraged, Smaug flew south to … Smaug eventually returns inside and pretends to sleep. You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.
Bilbo begins to hoard the precious stone by sleeping on it and soon gave into the temptations of wealth and desire, like the dragon, Smaug. What is Esgaroth? He exhibits extreme bravery because he really does not want to confront Smaug, but he goes anyway. For about two hundred years it hoarded Erebor's treasures before a company of dwarves managed to drive him out of hiding, after which the dragon was slain by Bard the Bowman in Lake-town.
Similarly, you may ask, how did Gandalf save the dwarves from the goblins? The Thrush goes with Bilbo into The Mountain. The plot describes how Bilbo joins a company of 13 dwarves and Gandalf, the old wizard, on a journey to the Lonely Mountains in the east to recover the ancient treasure taken and guarded by the dragon Smaug.
Why did Smaug wake up? Oh and let's not forget Thorin. Bilbo discovered a weak point in Smaug's scaly armour, which ultimately caused his death.
What did Bilbo discover about Smaug's belly? Why did smaug go off to the lake town of esgaroth? What was the Arkenstone? Bilbo and. The killer of Smaug is Bard the Bowman. Originally Answered: How is Smaug from The Hobbit called a fire"drake" when he is clearly classified as a dragon and not a drake What is a drake? Where did the dwarves hide from Smaug?
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