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Smaug was "the greatest of the dragons of his day", already centuries old at the time he was first recorded. He heard rumours of the great wealth of the Dwarf-kingdom of Erebor, which had a prosperous trade with the Northmen of Dale. Smaug "arose and without warning came against King Thrór and descended on the mountain in flames".
David Callaway, writing in Mythlore, notes that Tolkien, a devout Roman Catholic, had made Middle-earth a place where good and evil are in conflict under an omnipotent god, Eru Ilúvatar: in other words, "his cosmology is Christian". [20] Callaway describes Gollum as fitting into this framework as a being not wholly evil, able to make moral ...
Like Tolkien's Smaug, [9] they are susceptible to drowning. [10] Kalessin the creator of the world of Earthsea. (The Farthest Shore, 1972) Orm, the great dragon who slew and was slain by the legendary Warrior Mage Erreth-Akbe. Orm Embar, Orm's descendant, who died battling the evil magician Cob on the eastern shores. (The Farthest Shore, 1972)
Smaug: The Hobbit: Tolkien [A 1] A greedy and wicked golden-red dragon who slaughtered Thrór's dwarf clan along with the town of Dale and took the dwarves' treasure. While Bilbo Baggins talked with Smaug, he found a weak spot in Smaug's impenetrable scales. Hearing this from the Thrush the archer Bard killed Smaug. Sparkles
Smaug (/smaʊɡ/[T 1]) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal of the quest. He is a powerful and fearsome dragon. It feels like bad writing that Smaug is described as a dragon twice in quick succession.
Tolkien compared King Théoden of Rohan, charging into the enemy at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, to a Vala of great power, and to "a god of old": [T 21] Théoden could not be overtaken. Fey he seemed, or the battle-fury of his fathers ran like new fire in his veins, and he was borne up on Snowmane like a god of old, even as Oromë the ...
Smaug is a dragon in J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Hobbit. Smaug may also refer to: Smaug, a genus of lizards; Smaug (protein), an RNA-binding protein; Cnemaspis smaug, a species of gecko; Tetramorium smaug, a species of myrmicine ant; SMAUG, a multi-user dungeon derived from DikuMUD
[HS 12] After her robot body explodes, she is one of the only two trolls to reach god-tier (along with Vriska Serket). [HS 13] Her astrological sign is Aries. [HS 14] [HS 15] In Homestuck: Beyond Canon, a version of her, along with Tavros Nitram, help guide Vriska through the beginning of "The Point" and give her a form of therapy. Tavros Nitram