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 | | Smaug is described as reddish-gold and was said in accounts of the Red Book that he "raised fifty feet high with wings out strecthed past one hundred, as is claws were the size of a boulder, and could easily crush one". |
 | | This theft of a cup, Smaug's knowledge of every item in the hoard, and the dragon's ensuing rampage all echo the story of Beowulf, on which Tolkien was a noted expert and which he described as as one of his "most valued sources" for The Hobbit. |
 | | Among the items in Smaug's possession were the Arkenstone, and a number of mithril chain shirts, one of which was given as a gift to Bilbo by Thorin Oakenshield, and was later to save Frodo Baggins from the spear of a goblin captain in Moria. |
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