Ĭritics have identified close parallels with what they presume are sources of Tolkien's inspiration, including the dragon in Beowulf, who is provoked by the stealing of a precious cup, and the speaking dragon Fafnir, who proposes a betrayal to Sigurd. In The Hobbit, Thorin describes Smaug as "a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm".
A group of thirteen dwarves mounted a quest to take the kingdom back, aided by the wizard Gandalf and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Powerful and fearsome, he invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 150 years prior to the events described in the novel. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal of the quest. Smaug ( / s m aʊ ɡ/ ) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J.
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