'''Smaug''' was a [[dragon]] in [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s novel ''[[The Hobbit]]'' during the "Third Age" whose vast accumulation of treasure was finally dispersed when [[Bilbo]] and the [[dwarf (mythology)|dwarves]] occupied his lair upon his long-awaited death.
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'''Smaug''' is a [[dragon]] in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth world, appearing in ''[[The Hobbit]]''.
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Smaug was killed in battle by the last arrow of a famous bowman tipped off about a chink in Smaug's armor by the thrush befriended by [[Bilbo]] atop Smaug's [[Lonely Mountain]] lair.
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In T.A. 2770, Smaug attacked the [[Erebor|Lonely Mountain]], home to Durin's Dwarves, and drove them away. He took the Lonely Mountain as his home and created a hoard from the Dwarven treasures. In T.A. 2941, as told in ''The Hobbit'', the Smaug was slain by Bard the Bowman.