This God is named Eru Ilúvatar and he is an infinite, shapeless void of good things.
While Middle Earth is a magical realm of Elves and Orcs and Dwarves and walking trees, there is still a God. TOTALLY OPTIONAL HISTORY LESSON BEGINS HERE _ In these texts and letters, Tolkien talks about the beginning of time and all that good stuff. Almost everything is covered and canon, too. What a lot of people don’t know is that Tolkien wrote tomes and histories detailing the entire backstory of Middle Earth. There are other dragons, you ask? (Or at least I’m pretending that’s what you would ask.) There’s a bunch, actually. This means we need to talk about other dragons in Middle Earth that aren’t Smaug the Tyrannical. We’re gonna dissect this bitch and prove once and for all that Smaug really isn’t that bad.īefore immediately picking Smaug apart, we need to cover some ground first.
If you have not seen any of the films or read the books on which they are based, then you had better steel yourself for some hardcore analytic Black Arrows.
You may know him from such films as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, or The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, or The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. In particular, we need to talk about the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities, Smaug the Stupendous. Well, okay, we really only need to talk about a dragon.
