The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is a 2013 fantasy film directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Jackson, and Guillermo del Toro, based on the 1937 novel The Hobb
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Benedict Cumberbatch at the Los Angeles premiere of the film.
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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