#desolation of smaug
I am inviting all authors and artists who love Tolkien to participate in my April Tolkien Challenge!
Every day, there will be a new object central, which is the object we will be talking about! Do whatever you want with this; Write a piece about it, share information about it, create something art-related about it….anything goes!
I’d love to see your work! Tag me in it, reblog this post with your piece or use #apriltolkienchallenge !
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3.Sting
4.Silmaril
6.Andúril
8.Gurthang
9.Pipeweed
11. Light of Eärendil
12. Smaug
13. Glamdring
14. The One Ring
15. Evenstar
16. Ring of Barahir
17. Thorin’s crown
18. Mithril
19. Horn of Gondor
20. Doors of Durin
21. Treasure
22. Glaurung
23. Arkenstone
24. Morgoth’s crown
25. Ringil
26. The Black Arrow
27. Trees of Valinor
28. Dragon-helm of Dor-Lómin
29. Narsil
30. Oakenshield
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Chapter 29 of my Kili X OC series ‘Starcrossed Losers’ is out now! Check out the entire series right here and let me know what you think of it!
April Tolkien Challenge; Day 12
Smaug
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Smaug was a great fire-drake that had taken over the infamous Dwarven Kingdom Erebor in the year 2770 of the Third Age. As he attacked the mountain, Dale was left in ruins as well. While Thraín and King Thror managed to escape through a secret passage, many dwarves met their doom that day. Smaug managed to keep the kingdom for his own until the year 2941 of the Third Age. The gold, jewels and treasure the dwarven mountain had to offer him, were enough to drive him content to house there for two centuries.
It wasn’t until Thorin Oakenshield and his company set out to reclaim Erebor, that the dragon was properly seen again. Bilbo Baggins, who was supposed to get the Arkenstone from the treasure hoard, as to show Thorin’s royal title, found the dragon amongst the golden piles:
“There he lay, a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep; thrumming came from his jaws and nostrils, and wisps of smoke, but his fires were low in slumber. Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light. Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat, turned partly on one side, so that the hobbit could see his underparts and his long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.”
-The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
After noticing the missing golden cup the first day the dwarves re-entered the mountain, Smaug grew angry, recognizing Bilbo as a thief. As Bilbo tries to sweet-talk him, Smaug ultimately loses his temper, his rage for the dwarves growing. Out of revenge, he flew to Laketown, burning down the village and its inhabitants.
Bard the Bowman finally managed to slay Smaug when he arrived at Laketown. The scales of the dragon were impenitrable, yet a single scale was missing. Bard managed to hit it with the Black Arrow, shooting Smaug from the sky.
It was said that even after his death, the Lakemen - and other travellers - did not dare grab the gold or jewels from under Smaug’s scales and wings. Even as the dragon had long been slain, now buried beneath the lake, the mere mention of Smaug scared the people, and they would not dare steal from him.
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Sources:
-One Wiki To Rule Them All
-Tolkien Gateway
-The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
-Desolation of Smaug, Peter Jackson
-Battle of the Five Armies, Peter Jackson
April Tolkien Challenge; Day 7
Key To Erebor
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The Key to Erebor, or the key to the Side-Door as it is known, was an essential object for the journey to Erebor made by the company of Thorin Oakenshield. The key, as was the map, were made by Thrór and Thráin, ancestors of Thorin Oakenshield himself. As the dragon Smaug attacked the halls of Erebor, the dwarves fled, Thrór taking the key with him.
Later, the key landed in the hands of Thráin, for safekeeping. As the orcs serving the necromancer (or Sauron, yet unknown at the time) captured the dwarven heir, Gandalf took the key from him, in the years 2850 of the Third Age. This was just before Thráin died in the dungeons of the necromancer.
Gandalf presented the key to the company of Thorin Oakenshield on April in the year 2941 of the Third Age in Bag-End, gifting the object back to Thorin, as was his right.
The key was later used to open the said Side-Door of Erebor, after Bilbo pointed out the last light that would reveal the keyhole had been the light of the moon. Thorin opened the door for his company, revealing the riches and beauty of Erebor to the dwarves.
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Sources:
-One Wiki To Rule Them All
-The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
-BOTFA, Peter Jackson
