Ruotorin wrote:
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Yes, there is a dragon, but I never could vision Smaug to be in the same league as Glaurung.
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Interesting. To me, Smaug has always seemed to be one of the things that most emphatically connected
The Hobbit with the rest of Tolkien's mythology. Smaug and Glaurung are different characters, yes. But I have always thought that, like Glaurung, Smaug epitomizes a peculiarly Draconian kind of evil - a mix of malice, cunning, arrogance, and playfulness. Smaug's riddling conversation with Bilbo has, I think, very much the same tone as the exchanges between Turin and Glaurung.