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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
On a tangent, is Smaug given a colour? I thought he was gold too, or is that movieverse messing with my head?
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Originally Posted by Inside Information
There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; a thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were
low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.
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I would swear Bilbo called him "Smaug the Golden" somewhere in his praise, but apparently not. There is a possibility that he was gold, and that like his treasure Bilbo just saw him "red-stained in the ruddy light", but Occam's razor suggests he was red-gold.
... and rainbow underneath, of course!
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Originally Posted by Inside Information
The hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.
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At least we know Smaug took the lesson of Glaurung to heart, though how he heard about it is a mystery. Perhaps Morgoth broadcast his stalking of the Children of Hurin to all Angband, in the first reality TV show of Arda?
hS