Have you read Tolkien?
Because his dragons fly.
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It's too easy to say that Smaug is stereotypical character if Smaug is one of the monuments who has created that stereotype!
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Smaug did not create the stereotype. Really, Nogrod, this is quite the ignorant statement.
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The merit of which is...? How being a fool makes you worthy of recognition? Do what you're good at, I say. Be what you are.
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So in that case, everyone who has gone on an adventure in Tolkien's works is a fool. Bilbo, Frodo, Sam... well let's just say the whole Fellowship were a a bunch of idiots.
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Nice little fairy-dragon, now aren't we? So cute indeed? What's the point of a consiliatory dragon? Being nice enough to serve the morning TV-cartoons that are there only for the adds?
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This doesn't describe Chrysophlyax any more than saying dragons don't fly does. He was smart and canny, that's not the same as cute, nice, or consiliatory. Just because someone brought up Puff earlier doesn't mean it's an accurate comparison.
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And living in the end? What measure of character is that? The dead (or irretrievably gone) will bring forwards our emotions, not the ordinary "survivors" of the everyday... This is all stars!
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That's a matter of opinion. Personally I find the ability to stay alive is a better measure of a true survivor than someone who gets killed because he just had to go out and flame the town.
However, whether you think Smaug is better than Chrysi or not is kind of beside the point, since
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is still around.