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

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 ...

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

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.

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?

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

The dragon Smaug—who debuted in The Hobbit in 1937, was inspired by his early reading of mythology. Kat Eschner. September 21, 2017. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

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." ...

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 ...

Smaug: (pauses) Hmmm.That’s so tough to answer. Putting me on the spot (laughs)! I guess the way I look at it is this, a film like How to Train Your Dragon only opened at $43 million, hell ...

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 ...