Voice of Smaug?

[Durelin]

Leonard Nimoy.

Originally Posted by alatar

And that said, must we exclude female voices a priori? Is Smaug male? What does 'male' mean in dragon form? Could not a woman's voice work as well?

There are women who have done very 'masculine' voice-acting, too. Like the woman who voices Bart Simpson...obviously not a very deep voice but plenty masculine. And I remember in an anime this Japanese woman, who spoke in a very high-pitched voice normally, voicing a bad guy with the typical menacing deep voice.

That aside -- no, there's nothing saying Smaug need sound typically 'masculine'...though I must admit I want him to. Well, not *typically* masculine but...yeah.