smaug

Tolkien was very aware that Beowulf’s dragon wasn’t just a monster but a moral climax. In his 1936 lecture Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics, he described the poem’s structure as “balanced and significant” precisely because the dragon isn’t just a beast to slay—it’s the final test of courage...

This is basically an exercise to try and assign 'Dungeons & Dragons' alignments to evil characters in the legendarium. Morgoth is probably clearly chaotic evil, though may also exhibit lawful evil tendencies (for example he commands armies), while Sauron may be described as Lawful evil. Their...

Escarothians look North across the Long Lake: "...they could see him as a spark of fire rushing towards them and growing ever huger and more bright, and not the most foolish doubted that the prophecies had gone rather wrong. Still they had a little time. Every vessel in the town was filled with...

This thought crossed my mind as I was reading the thread by @BalrogRingDestroyer : https://thetolkien.forum/threads/how-exactly-did-smaug-stay-fed-all-of-those-years.30740/ It's all very well for reptiles - to which class dragons must belong - to subsist in hibernation for a long time; some...

I mean, he's a dragon, though I don't know if he was super huge, but he even admitted that he was young when he first came and is now older, so he should need a lot of food. Problem is, he seems to have decimated the countrside such that little was around, save some unsavory crows plus a thrush...

Someone else asked about who would win in a fight, Smaug or Sauron. A friend asked me who would win in a battle of wits though, Smaug or Sauron. My opinion is that Sauron being a maiar would defeat Smaug easily but at the same time, aren't there theories that dragons are possibly maiar as well...

I know this may sound silly, but it does have some precedent. Apparently the Ring can draw bad creatures to the bearer, as it did the Watcher in the Water to Frodo. One of the group, possibly Gandalf, can't remember, even remarks as much. I also think it may have drawn the Balrog to them...

Saw a question about this on Quora. Who would win in a fight, Sauron or Smaug? The answers mostly favored Sauron, some going so far as to say that Sauron (and even Durin's Bane) easily outclasses Smaug. What these answers fail to consider is that Sauron was vanquished by a Man and an Elf...

I just found this a minute or so ago, really interesting CL

I've just started re-reading The Hobbit, and I noticed this in a section describing dragons: After that there were no dwarves left alive inside, and he took all their wealth for himself. Probably, for that is the dragons' way, he has piled it all up in a great heap far inside, and sleeps on it...

I know there were dragons, and those greater than Smaug too, in the First Age and probably some in the Second Age, but with Smaug's death at Lake Town, did dragons become extinct?

I have a question it's been bugging me forever. In the second film of the hobbit when Bilbo used the ring to drive the spiders away, when he has the ring on he is able to understand black speech, which I get, but then he takes the ring off and he can still understand the spider saying "it...

Firstly, I was a bit annoyed that download purchasers got to watch the film a good two weeks before my DVD copy was available; but I'm over that now. I don't want to give too much away, for those who haven't watched it yet; but I think that the extended edition is a better watch than the...

Ranking: 4/10 *SPOILERS AHEAD* Well folks, many of you know this is my custom to review the movies like this and has been since they first came out back in the First Age of the Tolkien forum. Before the FADs (Film Adaptation Defenders) come out in full force and knock me for my review...

...I predict that Legolas is going to help the Dwarves somehow. After all, he's a "good guy." ...But how would that explain the Gimli grudge?:*confused: If not Legolas, then it shall be the lass Tauriel that shall "do and dare" for the Dwarves "in durance vile.":*D We shall see. We...

http://the-hobbitmovie.com/benedict-cumberbatch-talks-about-his-role-as-smaug/ I have to admit I'm a little bit excited about this casting choice. I like how he's handled the traditional Sherlock role (apparently he's also going to be in the next Star Trek film, so it feels like he's inserting...

I think that Smaug was in the War of Wrath. Let us examine the facts. Smaug is of the Winged Uruloki. These were created by Morgoth, and in the Great Battle the Silmarillion states that well-nigh all of them were destroyed...but not all. However, if nearly all of them were destroyed and Smaug...

Officially (as of this date) there is nobody yet tasked to do Smaug's voice. But I hope this guy will get the chance to do the voice of Smaug; the red-golden scale fire-drake...for he has a 'Golden Voice'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rPFvLUWkzs Let your voices be heard and lets vote...

Some time ago I started a discussion with my friend, concerning Dragons, The One Ring and Saruman’s voice. After reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s books I came to the coclusion that Dragons (be they dragon-worms or flying dragons) are Evil. They were bred for the first time by Morgoth, the ancient...

As it stands, I have read the Hobbit, LOTR, and the Silmarillion. Something has been playing on my mind for a while and I wanted to get some feedback/opinions from other Tolkien fans. On various websites, I have heard it asserted that Smaug might be one of the original dragons of Morgoth...