Quote:
I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong.
The Hobbit
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In the quotation above Smaug is referring to his conquest of Erebor in TA 2770 and speaking in TA 2941. If he is 'old and strong' when speaking to Bilbo, but was 'young and tender' 171 years earlier then he is obviously far too young to have been alive in Glaurung's day (c. FA 265- FA 499), nearly 6,300 years before the fall of Erebor.