Smaug
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Smaug 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 Dwar
Beowulf fights his dragon to the death in a 1908 illustration by Joseph Ratcliffe Skelton.
Sigurd kills the dragon Fafnir. Wood-carving in Hylestad Stave Church, 12th–13th century.
Detail of wampum bead girdle
A somewhat cat-like Smaug as seen in the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated film of The Hobbit
Benedict Cumberbatch
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Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch is an English actor. He has received various accolades, including a British Academy Television Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and a Laurence Olivier Award, in addit
Smaug
…proud character, and his aggressively polite way of speaking, like the British upper class. Smaug was voiced and interpreted with performance capture by Benedict Cumberbatch in Peter Jackson's film adaptations of The Hobbit. Dragons lived in the Withered Heath beyond the Grey Mountains. Smaug was "the greatest of the dragons…
Cumberbatch in 2025
During rehearsals for Frankenstein, April 2011
Filming Sherlock in Chinatown, London, March 2010
Cumberbatch at the premiere of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, September 2011