This enraged Smaug beyond measure, causing him to leave his chamber and scour the mountainside for the intruder remembering hearing strange noises from the passageway he failed to find the entrance, only eating their ponies. Already suspicious, Smaug noticed that the cup was missing. Upon awaking Smaug felt the draught from the tunnel which led to the secret door (from which he had previously heard untoward knocking). Meanwhile Smaug had an uneasy dream:ДЄ warrior, altogether insignificant in size but provided with a bitter sword and great courage, figured most unpleasantly

They sent Bilbo in through the secret door to carry out his duty as their burglar as Smaug lay dreaming of greed and violence, Bilbo stole a heavy two-handed cup from the dragon's vast hoard of treasure (which he used as a bed) and went back to the dwarves. The party reached the mountain later that year on Durin's Day. 2941, at the home of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf presented Thorin with the map and key, and accompanied them on part of their quest. Gandalf wanted Thorin to take the hobbit Bilbo Baggins as a burglar on their adventure to retake Erebor this took considerable persuasion. They discussed their desire to destroy Smaug and retake the Lonely Mountain they later met in Thorin's Halls in the Blue Mountains to develop a plan. Д«y chance on 15 March 2941, Gandalf met Thorin Oakenshield in Bree (although another source states that they met when Thorin overtook but started to talk to Gandalf on the road ). It is for this reason that Gandalf sought a plan to neutralise the threat of Smaug and limit the growing power of Sauron in the north of Middle-earth. Having discovered that the Necromancer was indeed Sauron, Gandalf was very concerned that Sauron could command Smaug's allegiance, using him to a devastating effect. Unbeknownst to Gandalf at the time this dwarf was ThrГЎin, King of Durin's Folk, who had been captured by the Necromancer in T.A. 2850, Gandalf, whilst spying on the Necromancer in Dol Guldur, found a Dwarf imprisoned near death, the dwarf gave Gandalf a key and a map. The Quest for Erebor See also: The Hobbit The area surrounding the mountain became known as the Desolation of the Dragon as ' there was neither bush nor tree, and only broken and blackened stumps to speak of ones long vanished'. Smaug claimed the treasure (which included the Arkenstone and a mithril shirt) for himself and laid there upon a bed of gold, for the next two centuries only occasionally leaving the mountain to carry away people (especially maidens) and continue the destruction of Dale. Only ThrГіr, King under the Mountain, and his son ThrГЎin II managed to escape by using the secret side-door (ThrГіr later gave the key to the secret door and a map of the Lonely Mountain to ThrГЎin). Returning to the mountain, he crawled into the front gate and left no dwarf he found alive. When the dwarves came running out of the front gate Smaug killed them all before turning his attention to the men of Dale, also killing most of their warriors including Girion, Lord of Dale (but his wife and child safely fled to Lake-town ). Hearing about the wealth of the Dwarves of Erebor, Smaug flew south ' like a hurricane coming from the North' and attacked the wealthy Dwarven kingdom of the Lonely Mountain and its adjacent lands: he first landed upon the mountain before going down the slopes and setting the woods on fire. 2770, and as having transitioned to become 'old and strong' by T.A. Details of his origin are unknown, but he apparently was considered still 'young' by himself and Gandalf when he first appeared in Middle-earth's history in T.A. Smaug was perhaps one of the dragons that infested the Grey Mountains. Tolkien, The Hobbit, ' Inside Information' History Sack of Erebor See also: Sack of Erebor 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. 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. 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. When Bilbo Baggins first encounters Smaug he can hear his snoring - ' like the noise of a large pot galloping in the fire, mixed with the rumble of a gigantic tom-cat purring' - but is most of all struck by the reddish glow and heat that Smaug gives off, both of which travel up the passage-way so Smaug is felt long before he is seen.

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