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Bard the Bowman is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. A Man of Laketown and a descendant of the ancient Lords of Dale, Bard manages to kill Smaug, the dragon, after which he becomes king of Dale. Tolkien created the character specifically to kill Smaug, since none of the other protagonists of the story were able to fulfill this role.
Smaug (/ s m aʊ ɡ / [T 1]) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal of the quest. Powerful and fearsome, he invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 171 years prior to the events described in the novel. [ 1 ]
The Necromancer, a shadowy evil character mentioned in The Hobbit. [T 20] In The Lord of the Rings, the Necromancer is revealed to be Sauron. [T 21] (mentioned only) Smaug, a great dragon who made the Lonely Mountain his lair. [T 1] After the Company roused him from his long quiescence, he destroyed Lake-town and was killed by Bard the Bowman ...
He brought multiple leading evil characters in The Lord of the Rings to a fiery end, including Gollum, the Nazgûl, the Dark Lord Sauron, and the evil Wizard Saruman, while in The Hobbit, the dragon Smaug is killed.
The Hobbit enters the mountain and steals a golden cup. [2] [T 4] [T 5] Smaug, enraged by the theft, emerges from the mountain and flies south to destroy Lake-town, which he suspects is the source of the "thieves". During this attack Smaug is killed by Bard the Bowman; Thorin claims the mountain on learning of Smaug's demise.
Tolkien went on to create Smaug, a powerful and terrifying adversary, in The Hobbit. Dragons are only mentioned in passing in The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien's conception of the dragon has been adopted both in games loosely based on his Middle-earth writings, and by other fantasy authors. Several taxa have been named after Tolkien's dragons ...
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug won in its weekend box office debut, Image source: Time Warner By harnessing the prowess of J.R.R. Tolkien's most famous novel, Time Warner's Warner Bros ...
The Hobbit is set in Middle-earth and follows home-loving Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit of the title, who joins the wizard Gandalf and the thirteen dwarves of Thorin's Company, on a quest to reclaim the dwarves' home and treasure from the dragon Smaug. Bilbo's journey takes him from his peaceful rural surroundings into more sinister territory.