Smaug is aware of the return of Sauron, and was apparently intent on joining forces with him (although there was some amount of confusion as to whether the dragon's motives for an alliance with Sauron were).
Smaug. Smaug was considered to be the last "great" dragon of Middle-earth. Sauron allied with Smaug and intended to use the dragon's powers against the people of Middle-earth. But before that could happen, Smaug was slain by Bard the Bowman.
Peter Jackson certainly makes the assertion in the theatrical and extended editions of the Hobbit movies that Smaug and Sauron are not only well aware of each other, but are planning to ally with each other.
Sauron was portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch through voice and motion capture in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug, and the upcoming The Battle of the Five Armies. Sauron is the overarching antagonist of the trilogy, given that he made a pact with Smaug and is Azog's boss and leader.
In The Hobbit, Gandalf likely did not tell Thorin about Sauron because he did not want to distract Thorin from the mission at hand, which was to reclaim the Lonely Mountain and the treasure of Erebor from the dragon Smaug.
While it's not confirmation, it shows that Gandalf fully believed the two would form an alliance. Although, what's more likely is that Sauron would trick Smaug into joining his army, as he had always been a master manipulator.
"She's helped to save him," Clark said. "She's also inspired him, and she'll always know that." After Galadriel makes it clear to Halbrand that she knows he is Sauron, he makes a pitch for her to join him. Halbrand says Galadriel can become his queen, and that she will bind him to light while he will bind her to power.
That title falls to Ancalagon the Black, the largest dragon ever to have existed in Middle-earth. He was bred by Morgoth during the First Age to fight for the Dark Lord during his campaign of terror.
Described as a "long-worm", although this imprecise term seems to be more of an expression rather than a separate taxonomic group. Smaug — the last great dragon of Middle-earth, slain by Bard of Esgaroth.
Experts Opinion. Despite Smaug's great size, strength and Durable hide, Sauron's Dark Magic, Powerful Weaponry and Great Intelligence ultimately triumphed over Smaug. Sauron was immune to Smaug's fire as Sauron has control over fire and had adapted to it.
Gandalf's main reason for supporting Thorin's quest in The Hobbit was to eliminate the threat of the dragon Smaug, who would be a powerful ally for Sauron. Despite popular belief, the Balrog known as Durin's Bane was more powerful than Smaug in Middle-earth, being a literal, primordial demon.
Although both the Balrog and Smaug are creatures of fire, and Gandalf is able to match them thanks to the power of his fire ring, defeating the Balrog takes far more spiritual prowess, which is why Gandalf is able to essentially 'level up' and comes back as Gandalf the White, whereas defeating such an immense physical ...
Smaug hadn't hatched yet. Sauron was still hiding out in Dol Guldur, pretending to be a necromancer, in the year Smaug was killed. For many centuries before that, he was in a weakened, disembodied state. He was in no position to arrange alliances with anybody.
In the Third Age, he probably considered Saruman as his worst enemy, until he became corrupted. And he remained a threat, seeking the One Ring for himself. But he'd then have seen Gandalf as the chief problem. Someone who constantly caused his plans to fail.
Roaring in fury and pain, Smaug fell from the sky and plummeted into the flaming ruins of Lake-town. His death marked the end of the great dragons in Middle-earth.
In The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien, Smaug is killed by Bard, an archer who lives in Laketown. After Bilbo angers Smaug, the dragon leaves his lair to attack Laketown. During his conversation with Smaug, Bilbo noticed that there was a hole in Smaug's armor.
Smaug's dragon-fine would not have been hot enough to destroy the One Ring. The malevolence that Sauron put inside of the Ring could only be destroyed in the Cracks of Doom, so Frodo was compelled to make the journey to Mordor.
It is presumed that after the death of Smaug in the Third Age, the great dragons became extinct. According to Gandalf, the fire-drake race survived until at least just before the War of the Ring, and some lesser kin survived even after the war.
Smaug was a relatively young dragon, but he would have heard of The Necromancer, just like he heard of Lonely Mountain. But only the white Council knew that the Necromancer was Sauron.
In his notes, Tolkien remarks that Sauron saw Galadriel as his equal. Add that to the fact that she's untrusting of Sauron (yes, even when he's in his Annatar guise) and an unwavering, single-minded force, and it's more likely than not that Sauron feared Galadriel — or the potential she held to upend his plans.
Sauron's deepest fear was that Aragorn would use the Ring against him. With its powers of domination, Aragorn could comfortably take over the entirety of Sauron's dark army. Though this would eventually corrupt Aragorn, it would allow him to destroy Sauron and take his place.
Sauron is an expert manipulator and likely sees Galadriel and her power as an asset. In line with the old adage, "Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer," he'd rather have her on his side than against him.
