Smaug was a fire-drake of the Third Age, considered the last "great" dragon of Middle-earth. He was drawn to the enormous wealth amassed by the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain during King Thrór's reign. He laid waste to the nearby city of Dale and captured the Lonely Mountain, driving the surviving Dwarves into exile.

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 .

Jun 19, 2011 · Smaug was the greatest fire-breathing dragon of the Third Age. In T.A. 2770 he attacked the Lonely Mountain and the town of Dale. He claimed the treasure of the mountain for himself and forced Thrór, King under the Mountain, and his people into exile.

Mar 1, 2017 · In summary, we know that Smaug, when he arrived to attack Erebor was "young," possibly less than a hundred years old, and probably not actually fully grown. After 171 years as usurper King Under the Mountain, he considered himself old, possibly somewhere in the middle of his third century of life.

Feb 16, 2014 · Smaug was at very least ~180 years old by the time he was slain. This question probably pivots on what exactly dragons are. If they're taken to be Maiar, then the question is "how old are their physical forms?".

Smaug was a fire-breathing dragon of the Third Age, considered the last "great" of his kind to live on Middle-earth. He was drawn to the enormous wealth amassed by the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain and laid waste to the neighboring Man city of Dale and the kingdom of Erebor, claiming it and the treasure within for himself, while driving the ...

Smaug is a powerful and ancient dragon known as a Fire Drake, or Uruloki. The last of his breed in Middle-Earth, Smaug was famous for his attack on the kingdoms of Erebor and Dale during the Third Age.

Smaug is the main antagonist of The Hobbit film trilogy adaptations by Peter Jackson. He appears as the overarching antagonist of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey", then as the titular main antagonist of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug", …

Smaug was a dragon who took over the mountain, the Lonely Mountain and forced Thorin Oakenshield and his people out of the mountain. One hundred seventy one years later 1, he suddenly found a hobbit named Bilbo Baggins invading his home for the Arkenstone.

One of the last great Fire-drakes of Middle-earth, Smaug rose to prominence by laying waste to the town of Dale and capturing the Dwarf-kingdom of the Lonely Mountain (Erebor) with all of its treasure.