The Pools of Ivrin were a magical location that would have helped Frodo Baggins, but they were destroyed by a dragon before ...

Witness the legendary confrontation between brave Bilbo Baggins and the mighty Smaug in the heart of Erebor! This epic lotr ...

3. The dragon's mouth was a different kind of challenge. When Andy Serkis did motion-capture to play Gollum in the first Hobbit movie, it was for a character with a humanoid face. With Smaug and ...

Fifty diamonds per six-inch square dragon scale seems adequate to ward off most arrows, so Smaug is encrusted with 38,900 diamonds, with a total value of $3.9 billion.

New footage shows Bilbo back in danger and the return of the elf Legolas.

From the moment that plans were first announced for a live-action adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, fans of the 1937 novel began pondering the ways in which the mighty dragon Smaug ...

Dragons are red-hot in pop culture right now. Will the first real glimpse of one of the legendary firebreathers in the new trailer for "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" fire up fans of the movies?

To create the dragon in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," having Benedict "in a mocap suit … seemed to help get him immersed and home in on the character." ...

I read, write and think for a living. Taking into account a variety of factors including the estimated length of a dragon (64 feet), how many scales he has on his belly (822), the percentage of ...