How can you specifically say that he was referring to the earlier destruction of Erebor? For all we know, Smaug could have been referring to battles in the First Age, when he definitely would have been "young and tender."
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But Melkor also was there, and he came to the house of Fëanor, and there he slew Finwë King of the Noldor before his doors, and spilled the first blood in the Blessed Realm; for Finwë alone had not fled from the horror of the Dark.
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