Was Smaug hibernating for those 171 years?

[Beleg Strongbow]

Hahaha Yes they would destroy him with little trouble at all. Who knows how far he would make it.

 

[Úlairi]

He wouldn't get very far as Valinor is outside the Circles of the World.

 

[Beleg Strongbow]

Yes he'd probably just give up.

 

[Úlairi]

Originally posted by Beleg Strongbow
Yes he'd probably just give up.

Or the Valar may have been feeling hungry and decided to have a picnic. Tulkas would catch him, Orome would barbecue him, Manwe would say grace and Mandos would say something cheesy like:

"You are all doomed!"

 

[chrysophalax]

Ulairi, keep this up and things will NOT go well for you in the RPG!
What's with the dragon-bashing? We Dragons are the most cunning, elegant, amd, yes....delightfully evil creatures in all of ME! Why would THEY in the West want to destroy Smaug? Just because he was descended from one of Melkor's creations? Spoil-sports!

 

[Úlairi]

They may be spoil-sports, but if the Valar felt threatened by Smaug, I personally think that they would turn him into dragon-sushi.

 

[chrysophalax]

If they weren't threatened by the likes of Ancalagon and Glaurung, I'm sure Smaug would've been beneath their notice.

 

[Úlairi]

Oh, so they're just going to let Smaug fly into Valmar and slay their physical forms. Suuuuuurrrrrrre.

 

[Gamil Zirak]

Originally posted by Ulairi
He wouldn't get very far as Valinor is outside the Circles of the World.

You said it yourself that he could never reach Valinor. He would just fly around the world to the other side. I'm sure he would be quite tired after that long a flight.

 

[chrysophalax]

Rather a moot point then, wouldn't you say, Ulairi??

 

[Úlairi]

Originally posted by Gamil Zirak



You said it yourself that he could never reach Valinor. He would just fly around the world to the other side. I'm sure he would be quite tired after that long a flight.

I know I said that. Afterwards, Beleg and I were messing around hypothetically, chyro and Gamil, you took the hypothesis of Smaug being able to reach Valinor seriously and made deductions from it.

Originally posted by chyrosophalax
Rather a moot point then, wouldn't you say, Ulairi??

Nope.

 

[Eledhwen]

I am watching David Attenborough's latest excellent series on reptiles and amphibians "Life in Cold Blood". This week was snakes, and the spectacle of a python swallowing an antelope. Attenborough commented that it would not have to eat again for another year.

So, I would speculate that Smaug did actually spend most of the time sleeping on his hoard. Remember that most of the people of Lake Town only half believed that the dragon was there at all. That would take a lot of non-activity over a lengthy period to bring about.

 

[PaigeSinclaire88]

What exactly was Smaug doing in the roughly 171 years between taking over the Lonely Mountains and his death in Dale? Was he hybernating? Do dragons even do that? There really isn't much mention of him, and the people of Dale don't really acknowledge that he is still ransacking their town. Was he asleep from 2770 to 2941 (specifically from the day he ate his last Dwarve to the day Bilbo ventures into his chamber)? Is that what a dragons does? Takes over a mountain full of gold and then sleeps on it forever.

Personally, and I might be wrong..But it's always been my opinion that Smaug was hybernating. Again, it's been years since I've read all the books.

 

[The Old Eregionan]

Smaug of the Lonely Mountain may be remembered long after Smog of the Big City is forgotten.