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!scope="col" width=100px| Plot element!scope="col" width=300px| Beowulf!scope="col" width=300px| The Hobbit!scope="row"| Aggressivedragon| eald uhtsceaða ... hat ond hreohmod ...Wæs þæs wyrmes wig / wide gesyne"old twilight-ravager ... hot and fierce-minded" ..."that worm's war was / widely seen"!scope="row"| Gold-greedydragon| hordweard"treasure-guardian"| Smaug watchfully sleeps on pile of treasure!scope="row"| Provokingthe dragon!scope="row"| Night-flyingdragon| nacod niðdraca, nihtes fleogeðfyre befangen"naked hate-dragon, flying by night,wreathed in fire"| Smaug attacks Laketown with fire, by night!scope="row"| Well-protecteddragon's lair| se ðe on heaum hofe / hord beweotode,'stanbeorh steapne; stig under læg,'eldum uncuð."the one who on high heath / hoard watchedsteep stone-barrow / the path up to itunknown to any."| Secret passage to Smaug's lair and mound of treasure in stone palace under Mount Erebor!scope="row"| Accurseddragon-gold| hæðnum horde"a heathen hoard"| The treasure provokes Battle of Five Armies

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name	Smaug J. R. R. Tolkien>Tolkien| image = Conversation with Smaug.png| caption = Tolkien's illustration Conversation with Smaug| gender = Male Dragons (Tolkien)>Dragon| lbl24 = Book(s) {edih}Smaug ({{IPAc-en|s|m|aʊ|g}}{{harvnb|Tolkien|1996|loc="The Appendix on Languages"}}) 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. Powerful and fearsome, he invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 171 yearsWEB,weblink Timeline/Third Age, Tolkien Gateway, 24 July 2023, 24 July 2023,weblink live, prior to the events described in the novel. A group of thirteen dwarves mounted a quest to take the kingdom back, aided by the wizard Gandalf and the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. In The Hobbit, Thorin describes Smaug as "a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm".{{harvnb|Tolkien|1937|loc=Chapter 1: An Unexpected Party}}Critics 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. A further source may be Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha, where Megissogwon, the spirit of wealth, is protected by an armoured shirt, but whose one weak spot is revealed by a talking bird. Commentators have noted Smaug's devious, vain, and proud character, and his aggressively polite way of speaking, like the British upper class.Smaug was voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit. Story Dragons lived in the Withered Heath beyond the Grey Mountains. 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". After driving the Dwarves out of their stronghold, Smaug occupied the interior of the mountain for the next 150 years, guarding a vast hoard of treasure. He destroyed the town of Dale; the Men retreated to the Long Lake, where they built Lake-town of houses on stilts, surrounded by water to guard against the dragon.{{harvnb|Tolkien|1955|loc=Appendix A:III "Durin's Folk"}} |width = 40% |align = right |fontsize = 90% |style= text-indent:1em; }}Gandalf realized that Smaug could pose a serious threat if used by Sauron. He therefore agreed to assist a party of Dwarves, led by Thrór's grandson Thorin Oakenshield, who set out to recapture the mountain and kill the dragon. Assuming that Smaug would not recognize the scent of a Hobbit, Gandalf recruited Bilbo Baggins to join the quest.{{harvnb|Tolkien|1980|loc=Part III, Chapter 3: The Quest of Erebor}}Upon reaching Erebor, the Dwarves sent Bilbo into Smaug's lair, and he was initially successful in stealing a beautiful golden cup as Smaug slept. Knowing the contents of the treasure hoard to the ounce, Smaug quickly realized the cup's absence upon awakening and searched for the thief on the Mountain. Unsuccessful, he returned to his hoard to lie in wait. The Dwarves sent Bilbo down the secret tunnel a second time. Smaug sensed Bilbo's presence immediately, even though Bilbo had rendered himself invisible with the One Ring, and accused the Hobbit (correctly) of trying to steal from him. During his discourse with the dragon, Bilbo noticed a small bare patch on Smaug's jewel-encrusted underbelly, and narrowly escaped. A thrush overheard Bilbo's account of the meeting, and learnt of the bare patch on Smaug's underside.{{harvnb|Tolkien|1937|loc=Chapter 12: Inside Information}}Still enraged, Smaug flew south to Lake-town and set about destroying it. The townsmen's arrows and spears proved useless against the dragon's armoured body. The thrush told Bard the Bowman of Smaug's one weak spot, a bare patch on the dragon's belly. With his last arrow, Bard killed Smaug by shooting into this place.{{harvnb|Tolkien|1937|loc=Chapter 14: Fire and Water}} Analysis |width = 40% |align = right |fontsize = 90% |style= text-indent:1em; }} Character File:Beowulf and the dragon.jpg|thumb|upright|Beowulf fights his dragon to the death in a 1908 illustration by Joseph Ratcliffe SkeltonJoseph Ratcliffe SkeltonTolkien made Smaug "more villain than monster", writes the author and biographer Lynnette Porter; he is "devious and clever, vain and greedy, overly confident and proud."BOOK, Porter, Lynnette,weblink Tarnished Heroes, Charming Villains and Modern Monsters: Science Fiction in Shades of Gray on 21st Century Television, McFarland & Company, McFarland, 2014, 978-0-7864-5795-3, 37, The fantasy author Sandra Unerman called Smaug "one of the most individual dragons in fiction". The Tolkien scholar Anne Petty said that "it was love at first sight", describing Smaug as "frightening, but surprisingly knowable".BOOK, Petty, Anne C., Dragons of Fantasy, 2004, Kitsune Books, 978-0979270093, 46, 2nd, The Tolkien scholar Tom Shippey notes the "bewilderment" that Smaug spreads: he is enchanted by gold and treasure, and those who come into contact with his powerful presence, what Tolkien describes as "the effect that dragon-talk has on the inexperienced", similarly become bewildered by greed. In Shippey's view, however, the most surprising aspect of Smaug's character is "his oddly circumlocutory mode of speech. He speaks in fact with the characteristic aggressive politeness of the British upper class, in which irritation and authority are in direct proportion to apparent deference or uncertainty." In sharp contrast to this is his vanity in response to flattery, rolling over "absurdly pleased" as Tolkien narrates, to reveal his marvellously armoured belly. Shippey comments that such paradoxes, "the oscillations between animal and intelligent behaviour, the contrast between creaking politeness and plain gloating over murder" join to create Smaug's principal attribute, "wiliness".The Christian commentator Joseph Pearce describes Smaug's weak spot as his Achilles heel, noting his boastful over-confidence in his own indestructibility, and seeing in the fact that the vulnerability is over his heart a sign that "it is the wickedness of his heart which will lead to his downfall". Pearce likens Smaug's pride to that of Achilles, whose pride leads to the death of his best friend, and of many Greeks; and to the cockerel Chauntecleer in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Nun's Priest's Tale", where a boastful reply to the flattering fox causes the cockerel's fall.BOOK, Pearce, Joseph, Joseph Pearce, Bilbo's Journey: Discovering the Hidden Meaning of the Hobbit, Saint Benedict Press, 2012, Chapter 10: Dragon Pride Precedeth a Fall, 978-1-61890-122-4, The Beowulf dragon {{further|The dragon (Beowulf)|Beowulf in Middle-earth}}From 1925 to 1945, Tolkien was a professor of English Literature at Oxford University. He was a prominent scholar of the Old English poem Beowulf, on which he gave a lecture at the British Academy in 1936.BOOK, J. R. R., Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, (The Monsters and the Critics, and Other Essays, Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays), Christopher, Tolkien, George Allen & Unwin, 1983, 978-0-04-809019-5, He described the poem as one of his "most valued sources" for The Hobbit.{{ME-ref|Letters|#25 to the editor of The Observer, 16 January 1938}} Many of Smaug's attributes and behaviour in The Hobbit derive directly from the unnamed "old night-ravager" in Beowulf: great age; winged, fiery, and reptilian{{efn|The Old English word wyrm, used repeatedly in Beowulf for the flying dragon, has the dictionary meaning of reptile, serpent, or dragon.BOOK, Clark Hall, J. R., John Richard Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2002, 1894, University of Toronto Press, 4th,weblink 365, Tolkien accordingly uses "worm" of Smaug in The Hobbit.{{harvnb|Tolkien|1937|loc=chapter 1: An Unexpected Party}}}} form; a stolen barrow within which he lies on his hoard; disturbance by a theft; and violent revenge on the lands all about, flying and attacking at night.The scholars of English literature Stuart D. Lee and Elizabeth Solopova analyse the parallels between Smaug and the unnamed Beowulf dragon.{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;"|+ Lee and Solopova's comparison of Smaug and the Beowulf dragon
Esgaroth>Laketown
wæs ða gebolgen / beorges hyrde,'wolde se laða / lige forgyldan'drincfæt dyre."was then furious / the Tumulus>barrow's keeperwanted the enemy / with fire to revengeprecious drinking-cup."| Smaug enraged when Bilbo steals golden cup

Fafnir

File:Hylestad I, right - Fafnir and Sigurd.jpg|thumb|upright|Sigurd kills the dragon Fafnir. Wood-carving in Hylestad Stave ChurchHylestad Stave Church{{further|Fafnir}}Smaug's ability to speak, the use of riddles, the element of betrayal, his enemy's communication via birds, and his weak spot could all have been inspired by the talking dragon Fafnir of the Völsunga saga.JOURNAL, Dragons in Twentieth Century Fiction, Unerman, Sandra, Folklore (journal), Folklore, April 2002, 113, 1, 94–101, 1261010, 10.1080/00155870220125462, 216644043, Shippey identified several points of similarity between Smaug and Fafnir.{| class="wikitable"Tom Shippey's analysis of similarities between Smaug and FafnirShippey's discussion is at SHIPPEY, Tom, Tom Shippey, (J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century), 2001, HarperCollins, 978-0261-10401-3, 36–37, ; it is summarized in BOOK, Lee, Stuart D., Stuart D. Lee, Solopova, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Solopova, The Keys of Middle-earth: Discovering Medieval Literature Through the Fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, The Keys of Middle-earth, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan, Palgrave, 978-1-40394-671-3, 109–111, !scope="col"| Plot element!scope="col"| Fáfnismál!scope="col"| The Hobbit!scope="row"| Killing the dragon| Sigurd stabs Fafnir's belly| Bard the Bowman shoots Smaug in the belly!scope="row"| Riddling to the dragon| Sigurd does not give his name, but replies in a riddle that he has no mother or father| Bilbo does not give his name, but gives himself riddling names like "clue-finder", "web-cutter", "barrel-rider" !scope="row"| Dragon suggests betrayal| Fafnir turns Sigurd against ReginDwarf (Middle-earth)>Dwarves!scope="row"| Talking to birds| Dragon-blood lets Sigurd understand bird language: the nuthatches say Regin wants to betray himThrush (bird)>thrush hears Bilbo talk about Smaug's weakness, and tells Bard the Bowman

Old English spell

{{further|Philology and Middle-earth}}{| class="wikitable" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: none;"Philology>philological jest" ! Old English !! Plain meaning !! Alternatively smugan, sméogan >| "to think out, to scrutinise"wyrm >| "lizard, reptile, dragon"200pxLacnunga, Spell (magic) (on line 3) wid smeogan wyrme}} >100px[Book of] Remedies "against a Ascariasis"}} >| "against a crafty dragon"Tolkien noted, in a joking letter that he was surprised to see published in The Observer in 1938, that "the dragon bears as name—a pseudonym—the past tense of the primitive Germanic verb smúgan,DICTIONARY, Bosworth, Joseph, Joseph Bosworth, T., Bosworth Northcote,weblink smúgan, An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Charles University, Prague, 2018, 29 November 2013, 3 December 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131203061754weblink">weblink live, to squeeze through a hole: a low philological jest." Critics have explored what that jest might have been; an 11th-century medical text Lacnunga ("Remedies") contains the Old English phrase wid smeogan wyrme, "against a penetrating worm" in a spell,BOOK, Storms, Godfrid, No. 73. [Wið Wyrme] Anglo-Saxon Magic, 1948, Martinus Nijhoff; D.Litt thesis for University of Nijmegen, 's-Gravenhage, 303,weblink If a man or a beast has drunk a worm ... Sing this charm nine times into the ear, and once an Our Father. The same charm may be sung against a penetrating worm. Sing it frequently on the wound and smear on your spittle, and take green centaury, pound it, apply it to the wound and bathe with hot cow's urine. Harley manuscript, MS. Harley 585, ff. 136b, 137a (11th century) (Lacnunga)., 24 February 2020, 31 July 2020,weblink live, which could also be translated "against a crafty dragon". The Old English verb meant "to examine, to think out, to scrutinise",BOOK, Clark Hall, J. R., John Richard Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2002, 1894, University of Toronto Press, 4th,weblink 311, implying "subtle, crafty". Shippey comments that it is "appropriate" that Smaug has "the most sophisticated intelligence" in the book.BOOK, Shippey, Tom, Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle-Earth, 2005, Third, 1982, Grafton (HarperCollins), 978-0-26110-275-0, 102–104, All the same, Shippey notes, Tolkien has chosen the Old Norse verb smjúga, past tense smaug, rather than the Old English sméogan, past tense smeah—possibly, he suggests, because his enemies were Norse dwarves.WEB, Shippey, Tom, Tom Shippey, Tolkien and Iceland: The Philology of Envy, 13 September 2002,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20071014000303weblink">weblink 14 October 2007,

The Song of Hiawatha

File:Wampum peek bead girdle (detail).jpg|thumb|Detail of wampumwampumTolkien's biographer John Garth notes the similarity between Smaug's death from Bard's last arrow and the death of Megissogwon in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem The Song of Hiawatha. Megissogwon was the spirit of wealth, protected by an armoured shirt of wampum beads.{{efn|Jeff Thompson drew illustrations of Megissogwon's wampum shirt deflecting arrows for National Geographic.WEB, Thompson, Jeff, Hiawatha & Megissogwon,weblink National Geographic, 23 February 2020, 2001, 24 October 2020,weblink live, }} Hiawatha shoots in vain, until he has only three arrows left. Mama the woodpecker sings to Hiawatha where Megissogwon's only weak point is, the tuft of hair on his head, just as Tolkien's thrush tells Bard where to shoot at Smaug.NEWS, John, Garth, John Garth (author),weblink Tolkien's death of Smaug: American inspiration revealed, The Guardian, 9 December 2014, 1 July 2018, 1 July 2018,weblink live,

Illustrations

Tolkien created numerous pencil sketches and two pieces of more detailed artwork portraying Smaug. The latter were a detailed ink and watercolour labelled Conversation with Smaug and a rough coloured pencil and ink sketch entitled Death of Smaug.NEWS, JRR Tolkien artwork on display for first time,weblink BBC, 1 June 2018, 24 February 2020, 24 February 2020,weblink live, BOOK, Wayne G., Hammond, Wayne G. Hammond, Christina, Scull, Christina Scull, The art of the Hobbit, HarperCollins, 2011, 978-0-00744-081-8, NEWS, In Focus: The hand-drawn maps from which JRR Tolkien launched Middle-earth,weblink Country Life (magazine), Country Life, 10 August 2018, 24 February 2020, 24 February 2020,weblink live, While neither of these appeared in the original printing of The Hobbit due to cost constraints, both have been included in subsequent editions, particularly Conversation with Smaug. Death of Smaug was used for the cover of a UK paperback edition of The Hobbit.WEB, The Hobbit or There and Back Again by Tolkien, J.R.R. (cover art by J.R.R. Tolkien),weblink Biblio, 27 February 2020,weblink 27 February 2020, The Hobbit or There and Back Again by Tolkien, J.R.R. (cover art by J.R.R. Tolkien) London: George Allen & Unwin 1975 Third Edition (Paperback)... 1975... Cover illustration of Death of Smaug, live,

Adaptations

Animated films

File:Smaug The Hobbit 1977.jpg|thumb|upright|A somewhat cat-like Smaug as seen in the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film of The Hobbit ]]A dragon named 'Slag' features in Gene Deitch's brief 1967 animated film.BOOK, Lee, Stuart D., Stuart D. Lee, A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien, 2020, Wiley, 9781119656029, 518–519,weblink Francis de Wolff voiced the red dragon in the long-lost 1968 BBC radio dramatization.WEB,weblink The Hobbit Full Cast Radio Drama, Internet Archive, 24 February 2020, Richard Boone voiced Smaug in the 1977 animated film by Rankin/Bass.WEB, Harvey, Ryan, The Hobbit: The 1977 Animated Television Movie,weblink Black Gate (magazine), Black Gate, 26 February 2020, 29 March 2011, 26 February 2020,weblink live, Austin Gilkeson calls the film's depiction of Smaug "distinctly feline" as he has cat-like eyes and whiskers "and a lush mane". Gilkeson comments that the result does not resemble Western dragons, but that it works well, not least because Smaug's nature as an "intelligent, deadly, greedy" and lazy predator is in his view "very cat-like".WEB, Gilkeson, Austin, Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit Showed Us the Future of Pop Culture,weblink Tor.com, 26 October 2023, 21 December 2018, 26 October 2023,weblink live,

The Hobbit (film series)

File:Smaug (Peter Jackson Hobbit Trilogy).jpg |thumb |left |Smaug as depicted in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, with voice and motion-capture by Benedict CumberbatchBenedict CumberbatchSmaug was voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch in Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of The Hobbit.WEB, Fleming, Mike Jr.,weblink Benedict Cumberbatch To Voice Smaug in 'The Hobbit', Deadline Hollywood, Deadline, Penske Media Corporation, Los Angeles, California, 16 June 2011, 19 June 2011, 19 June 2011,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110619214808weblink">weblink live, From the motion capture, Smaug's design was created with key frame animation. Weta Digital employed its proprietary "Tissue" software, which was honoured in 2013 with a "Scientific and Engineering Award" from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to make the dragon as realistic as possible. In addition, Weta Digital supervisor Joe Letteri said in an interview for USA Today that they used classic European and Asian dragons as inspirations to create Smaug.NEWS, Brian, Truitt,weblink Five things to know about scaly 'Hobbit' star Smaug, USA Today, Gannett Company, Mclean, Virginia, 16 December 2013, 12 September 2017, 2 December 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151202223142weblink">weblink live, The Telegraph stated that Cumberbatch had "the authority to make of Smaug a cunning nemesis".NEWS, Benedict Cumberbatch's career in pictures: from Hawking to The Child in Time,weblink 31 May 2020, The Daily Telegraph, 24 September 2017, 20 September 2017,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20170920055851weblink">weblink live, In the first film, (The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey), the audience sees only his legs, wings, and tail, and his eye; the eye is showcased in the final scene of the film. Smaug is a topic of discussion among the White Council as Gandalf's reason to support Thorin Oakenshield's quest.WEB, Fleming, Mike,weblink Benedict Cumberbatch To Voice Smaug in 'The Hobbit', Deadline.com, 16 June 2011, 8 January 2013, 18 January 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20130118003736weblink">weblink live, Smaug appears in the second film, (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug). In an interview with Joe Letteri, Smaug's design was changed to the wyvern-like form shown in the film after the crew saw how Benedict Cumberbatch performed Smaug while moving around on all four limbs.WEB, Sullivan, Kevin P., What Happened To Smaug's Other Legs? 'Hobbit' FX Expert Explains,weblink MTV, 24 February 2020, 20 December 2013, 29 December 2019,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20191229121554weblink">weblink live, In (The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), Smaug attacks Lake-town. He is killed by Bard with a black arrow and his body falls on the boat carrying the fleeing Master of Lake-town. It is later revealed that Smaug's attack on Erebor was all part of Sauron's design, meaning that Smaug and Sauron were in league with each other.NEWS, Mark, Hughes, Review - 'The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug' Is Middle-Earth Magic,weblink Forbes, 8 December 2013, 1 July 2018, 1 July 2018,weblink live, MAGAZINE, Richard, Corliss,weblink 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug': It Lives!, Time (magazine), Time, Meredith Corporation, 9 December 2013, 1 July 2018, 28 August 2018,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180828033558weblink">weblink live, Smaug was considered one of the highlights of the second film of the series; several critics hailed him as cinema's greatest dragon. Critics also praised the visual effects company Weta Digital and Cumberbatch's vocal and motion-capture performance for giving Smaug a fully realized personality, "hiss[ing] out his words with cold-blooded vitriol".MAGAZINE, Nick, De Semlyen,weblink The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug Movie Review, Empire (magazine), Empire, Bauer Media Group, 6 December 2013, 1 July 2018,weblink 13 December 2013, dead, WEB, Josh, Wigler,weblink 'The Hobbit' Reviews: Get The Scoop On 'Smaug', Viacom (2005–present), Viacom, 9 December 2013, 1 July 2018, 5 February 2014,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20140205131858weblink">weblink live,

Video games

In the 2014 video game Lego The Hobbit, the portrayal departs more from the book; rather than ever more closely simulating the book's characters, the scholar Carol L. Robinson notes, the technology has allowed new fiction to be created.BOOK, Ashton, Gail, Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture,weblink 2017, Bloomsbury Academic, 978-1-350-02161-7, 125,

In culture

File:Air New Zealand, Boeing 777-300ER (Smaug Livery), ZK-OKO - LHR (11344034125).jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|An Air New ZealandAir New ZealandIn 2012, Smaug's wealth was estimated at $61 billion, placing him in the Forbes Fictional 15.NEWS,weblink Smaug, 8 July 2012, Forbes, 2012, 29 July 2017,weblink live, In 2011, scientists named a genus of southern African girdled lizards, Smaug.WEB,weblink Protect and Prosper, American Museum of Natural History, 30 August 2015, 16 November 2015,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20151116231159weblink">weblink live, The lizards were so named after the fictional dragon for being armoured, dwelling underground, and native to Tolkien's birthplace, Bloemfontein.JOURNAL, Edward L., Stanley, Aaron M., Bauer, Todd R., Jackman, William R., Branch, P. Le Fras N., Mouton, Between a rock and a hard polytomy: Rapid radiation in the rupicolous girdled lizards (Squamata: Cordylidae), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Academic Press, 58, 1, 53–70, 2011, 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.08.024, 20816817, In 2015, a new species of shield bug was named Planois smaug, because of its size and its status "sleeping" in the researcher's collections for about 60 years until it was discovered.WEB, Eduardo, Faúndez,weblink Patagonian Shield Bug Named After Middle's Earth's Smaug the Dragon, Entomology Today, Entomological Society of America, Annapolis, Maryland, 19 June 2015, 20 March 2016, 21 March 2016,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20160321170745weblink">weblink live, JOURNAL, Mariom A., Carvajal, Eduardo I., Faúndez, David A., Rider, Contribución al conocimiento de los Acanthosomatidae (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) de la Región de Magallanes, con descripción de una nueva especie, 10.4067/s0718-686x2015000100013, Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia (Chile), 2015, 43, 1, 145–151, free,

See also

• List of dragons
• Glaurung
• Slavic dragonSmok

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