Name Rohan Dec 26 , am Views: Yeah, it's kinda screwed up. Dwarven arhtritis. But nowhere in the films Even so. Bombadil Half-elven Dec 26 , am Views: DigificWriter Lorien Dec 26 , am Views: The Quest for Erebor actually occurred in T.
DeadRabbits Lorien Dec 26 , am Views: In the movieverse, isn't 60 years supposed to have passed between Smaug's attack and the Quest for Erebor? Otaku-sempai Immortal Dec 26 , pm Views: In Reply To.
DigificWriter Lorien Dec 26 , pm Views: I just said this elsewhere The movie vs the book. That still makes Thorin fairly old. Based on what we see Rough estimates. Defining the term "young" would probably be helpful. 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. In addition, he is a topic of discussion amongst the White Council as Gandalf cites his reason to support Thorin Oakenshield's quest. When Thorin and Company arrived at the Lonely Mountain and sent their burglar Bilbo Baggins to find the Arkenstone , the Hobbit unwittingly caused a landslide amongst the mountainous pile of treasures, uncovering the dragon.
Smaug stirred from his sleep, suspicious that someone was in the chamber with him. Although Bilbo was forced to use his ring to keep out of sight from the dragon, Smaug was immediately aware of his presence by his scent which the smell of hobbit was unknown to him.
He began to search for Bilbo, beckoning him to come out from where he was hiding and when Smaug got too close, the Hobbit was overcome with fear and attempted to run, only to alert the dragon, who chased after him through the chamber. Bilbo evaded him and hid behind a massive pillar, still under the cloak of the ring. Smaug continued his search and claimed that he was aware of the ring in Bilbo's possession and that he sensed that Bilbo has something "made of gold, but far more precious," which in turn forced the Hobbit to remove the ring.
Smaug was amused by Bilbo's knowledge of who he was, and began his conversation with the Hobbit in order to deduce his origins. During their conversation, the Hobbit then tried to lie to Smaug by claiming that he was no more than a simple traveler who came to the mountain alone to see the dragon, as he didn't believe the tales about him.
The dragon asked Bilbo if he thought flattery would keep him alive, and asked who he was and where he came from. Bilbo later made his riddle talk by claiming that he "came from under the hill and over hills and under hills his path had led", and through the air he was "he who walks unseen".
Smaug hardly believed him but asked Bilbo what also did he claim to be and the Hobbit answered that he was the "luck-wearer", "riddle-maker", and "barrel-rider". The dragon then revealed that he knew that the dwarves were outside of the mountain, although Bilbo whose eyes were on the Arkenstone tried to deny it, with Smaug not taking the bait. Later on, Smaug tried to take away Bilbo's friendship with Thorin by lying to him, claiming that the dwarf was using him and found his fate worth nothing, but the Hobbit refused to believe him.
Smaug was intrigued by his word and wanted to know what reward Thorin was willing to give him if he succeeded in finding the Arkenstone before stating that he would never give away any of treasure, not even a single coin.
During the game, Smaug discerned the Hobbit's attempt at stealing the jewel and kept Bilbo from catching the Arkenstone, boasting about his superiority. During the chase, Smaug showed Bilbo his underbelly, coated in gems, and the Hobbit caught a glimpse of a single missing scale.
Bilbo used his ring to escape and managed to get the Arkenstone while Smaug flew around in rage and unleashed a torrent of flames around the treasure chamber in an attempt to roast the Hobbit alive before he can escape.
When Smaug saw Thorin pointing his sword at Bilbo, asking if he found the Arkenstone, the dragon charged. The other dwarves with Thorin appeared to defend their friends, and Smaug charged after them, summoning his fire to burn them to death. However, the dwarves managed to elude him, and Smaug began to silently stalk the abandoned halls in search of the hidden dwarves.
Upon realizing the dragon was blocking their only path out of the mountain, the dwarves hatched a desperate plan to lead Smaug to the Lonely Mountain's forges in hopes that they can trick him into rekindling the smelting vats with his fire breath. They revealed themselves to Smaug, initiating a perilous game of cat-and-mouse through the halls of the mountain, doing everything in their power to encumber the pursuing dragon as they raced towards the entrance to the Lonely Mountain.
As Bilbo leads the dragon into the Gallery of the Kings, he is quickly overrun by Smaug, who deduces that Bilbo and the dwarves were aided by the men of Lake-town , and leaves to destroy the town, and when Bilbo protests Smaug cruelly and gleefully tells him that now their deaths will be on their heads. As he is leaving, Thorin appears and taunts him, unveiling an enormous, freshly cast golden statue of a dwarf, which distracts the greedy dragon long enough for the statue to melt into liquid gold and engulf him.
However, Smaug survives the scalding gold and erupts from the molten pool, roaring that he will show the dwarves what revenge really is. He then breaks through the walls of the mountain, shakes off his gold coating, and takes flight toward Lake-town. The film ends with him uttering "I am Fire, I am In the opening of the third film, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies , Smaug, after reaching Lake-town, proceeds to destroy the city for their part in aiding the dwarves.
Bard, having escaped imprisonment from the Master of Lake-town, climbs atop the bell tower and begins firing arrows at the dragon, though each attempt fails, harmlessly bouncing off Smaug's armor.
Eventually, Bain , Bard's son, arrives to aid his father with a Black Arrow. Unfortunately, as Smaug flies over, he claws at the tower, toppling most of it. With the bell tower now half-destroyed, Bard is forced to make a makeshift crossbow using a rope that held the bell, some pieces of broken wood, and Bain as a stand. Smaug lands, and looks towards Bard, sneering at his attempts to stop him.
Ignoring this, Bard notches the arrow, while Smaug charges him and his son. Bard fires his arrow, which hits Smaug straight in the chest, the shaft sinking into the missing scale. The dragon stumbles, knocking Bard and Bain off their perch, before flying back up. Clawing and biting at the sky, his internal glow fades as he dies in mid-air. Smaug's body, upon falling to the water, lands on Laketown's corrupt master, killing him.
Even after his death, Smaug's influence is felt throughout the movie. Aside from the damage he inflicted on Lake-Town, driving the residents to try and stay in Dale, as Thorin falls under the influence of the dragon sickness, Bilbo begins to hear him speak in Smaug's voice, and Thorin experiences a hallucination of Smaug while walking on the golden floor that they created while trying to 'drown' the dragon.
Smaug was considered the highlight of the second film of the series. Universal praise was also given to the visual effects company Weta Digital and the vocal and motion-capture performance of Cumberbatch for bringing a fully realized personality to Smaug. Should the Dragon have survived its attack upon Lake-Town, then the Dark Lord would have used him to devastating effect against the Free Peoples. While his personality is more or less the same as the book, in the films, Smaug is considerably more malicious and cruel.
He takes much more pleasure in psychologically tormenting Bilbo, making suggestions that Thorin was just using him, that flattery wouldn't keep him alive, choosing to spare Bilbo so that he can watch Lake-town burn and showing pleasure that Bilbo cared about the people of Lake-town and tell him that their deaths would be on his head, and sarcastically asking him how he would like to die. Smaug showed himself to be intensely sadistic, contemplating out loud that he would allow Bilbo Baggins to bring the Arkenstone to Thorin if only to watch the stone wreak havoc on Thorin's mind the way it did Thror's.
During his attack on Lake-town, Smaug went out of his way to mock and sneer at Bard and Bain. He was also aware of the return of Sauron, and was apparently intent on joining forces with him although there was some amount of confusion as to whether the dragon's motives for an alliance with Sauron were [10].
Though intrigued like in the book when encountering a hobbit for the first time, Smaug despised dwarves intensely, seemingly considering them wretched and bottom-feeding creatures in spite of how they'd be naturally urged to come after his treasure ironically, some of the unfavourable remarks he made about them could be used to describe himself, showing off the self-contradictory aspect of his personality ; but he seemed to hold a grudge towards Thorin in particular, possibly in spite of suspecting the dwarf-prince's greed or knowing about his royal claim on the Lonely Mountain and its treasure.
Smaug likewise upon realising the people of Lake-town had been in league with the dwarves displayed a mix of hatred and paranoia towards them, in spite of viewing them as sniveling and wretched and in spite of their ancestors' usage of black arrows.
They were originally bred by Morgoth, but I don't recall off-hand if their longevity is natural or magical in nature if one even chooses to use such distinctions in Tolkien's work. Many creatures in Middle Earth are described as immortal, so perhaps this also comes into play for Smaug.
Smaug is quite capable of long distance flight when hunting, having flown from the Withered Heath, north of the Grey Mountains, to attack Erebor. These lands are inhabited by men and their attendant domesticated animals. More than enough food to keep Smaug happy.
Dragon-fire and savage swords in Eriador, night in Rivendell. There might be no Queen in Gondor. We might now hope to return from the victory here only to ruin and ash. No doubt he wouldn't range so far as Eriador on a simple hunting trip, but the lands south of the River Running are well within reach.
The Dragon Smaug was last seen decades ago and we have proof of his increased activity right after he claimed Erebor as his own and raided city of Dale in Esgaroth.
Many of the elderly claimed that they saw him flying in their youth, but that doesn't mean he never left his lair in that time. The lands surrounding Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, the local plains, valleys and hills were ravaged by his attacks making a region known as "Desolation of Smaug". With these settlements of Men there are also fields and pastures, herds of cattle and sheep and whatever domesticated animals they kept and further south there are most likely other forests with plenty of wild animals.
When the raids in the closest neighborhood most likely frequent, given the state of Desolation not improving until the death of the dragon were not sufficient anymore he would probably also have to go far off to feed. The dragons, we can speculate, can probably survive long periods of time without food or slumber by conserving their strength.
As for their origin nobody knows. The use of Maiar explanation for all kinds of mysterious creatures appear to be most often used theory, but it's not necessarily the truth, not all spirits must be in their nature Ainur the divine beings of varying power.
Souls of other sapient creatures, for example, are in their nature fundamentally different than mighty spiritual beings of the Ainur kind, even though sharing similarities as indestructible essence of being. Smaug is cold-blooded like a lizard or a snake.
Smaug eats a lot and then goes to sleep like a lizard or a snake. Smaug is a few hundred thousand times larger than a lizard or a snake. A lizard or snake can eat a large meal and then go to sleep for two or three weeks without eating; since Smaug is several hundred thousand times larger than a regular lizard or a snake, he can probably sleep for several hundred thousand times longer.
I hope this helps. Therefore these creatures can eat animals, but they do not need them to survive. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. What did Smaug eat for 60 years? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 11 months ago.
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At least in the movie, the thrush seems to wake Smaug up from some kind of slumber, most likely deep as in hibernation as he's covered in gold to the point that an exhale discharges gold coins from his nostrils and gold falls from his opening eye.
Apologies as it's been many years since I read the book. I can only reference the movie at this moment. Yeah, I'm betting on hibernation as well. Especially since the folk from Lake Town speak of not wanting anyone to wake the dragon.
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