How old is(n't) Smaug? I've always assumed he was ancient and terrible, but:
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Originally Posted by Inside Information
... most of the plunder was meant to stop there in the town by the shore that in his young days had been called Esgaroth.
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Which sent me back to:
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Originally Posted by An Unexpected Party
"'Five feet high the door and three may walk abreast' say the runes, but Smaug could not creep into a hole that size, not even when he was a young dragon, certainly not after devouring so many of the dwarves and men of Dale."
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Is the implication here that Smaug was young at the time he desolated the Mountain? Or is Esgaroth a lot older than it looks, and Gandalf just unclear?
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Originally Posted by Inside Information
"I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong, strong, Thief in the Shadows!"
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Again, is Smaug really saying that a couple of hundred years takes a dragon from young to old?
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