Once upon a time, in the fiery depths of the Lonely Mountain, a dragon named Smaug reclined on his mountain-sized hoard of gold. According to Forbes, Smaug was the second wealthiest fictional character, with an estimated worth of $15.4 billion.
Smaug became extraordinarily wealthy by stealing a fortune in precious metals and gems from the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor. He devoured many of the dwarves and also attacked the human residents of Laketown, and then simply protected his hoard of gold and other precious artifacts.
The coin in particular that seems to be the most commonly seen is a NZ$10 coin, depicting one the hobbits from the movie.” That particular coin will set you back US$3,000 to get it in our pocket, he said. And while it does contain precious metal, that only makes it's actual value about US$1700.
How much treasure did Smaug have in his cave? Did he hoard all the gold from Erebor or just a lot of it? It has been estimated that Smug had as much as $60 billion. He had most if not all of the treasure of Erebor, as the Dwarves left in a hurry, and didn't have much time to pack.
Who Owned the Most Gold in The Lord of the Rings? From a purely monetary value, Frodo was actually the richest of all the Fellowship, as his Mithril shirt's worth "was greater than the value of the whole Shire and everything in it." This stems from the extreme rarity of Mithril.
Factoid: the amount of mined gold estimated to exist in the world today in total is put at a cube roughly 25 metres (about 82 feet) on each size. Smaug's hoard, as Wired estimates it, is far larger — 158 cubic metres!
Bilbo, despite having forfeited his share, was offered a rich reward but refused to take more than two small chests of gold and silver. When Bilbo and Gandalf bid farewell to Thranduil Bilbo gave him a necklace of silver and pearls.
Smaug's ability to speak, the use of riddles, the element of betrayal, his enemy's communication via birds, and his weak spot could all have been inspired by the talking dragon Fafnir of the Völsunga saga. Shippey identified several points of similarity between Smaug and Fafnir.
Scrooge. In any “who's richer” questions, the answer is always Scrooge. He is the richest character in fiction, period. Smaug doesn't come close to Scrooge.
If Smaug was born in the First Age, he should have been at least 6,212 years old at his death and he wouldn't have been "young and tender" at the falls of the two cities as he said he was.
Smaug is portrayed in the Hobbit films as having an overall length of 427' (130 m), total wingspan of 360' (110 m), and estimated grounded height of 60' (18.3 m). In the books, the length of Smaug is 59' (18 m). Smaug was the last great dragon living in Middle-earth.
The Bagginses were gentry, the local squires of Bywater whose wealth lay in land and rents. Bilbo inheritied Bag End and all that entailed. He returned from his travels with two chests of gold: his share of the troll hoard and the wealth of Erebor.
Blinded by his greed, Thorin denies helping anyone, especially King Thranduil and Bard, and orders the dwarves to help him defend his precious treasure. This request does not bode well with Bilbo, Gandalf, and many of the younger dwarves in the Company, creating a reluctant division.
The original “owners” were the dwarves of Erebor, the people of Dale and whoever else Smaug had grabbed things up from. This is why Thorin and his kin were not the only ones who were interested in the treasure once the dragon was dead.
Bard the Bowman is a character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit. A Man of Laketown and a descendant of the ancient Lords of Dale, Bard manages to kill Smaug, the dragon, after which he becomes king of Dale.
The Arkenstone of Thráin, also known as the Heart of the Mountain, was a great and wondrous jewel that was sought by Thorin II which had been discovered beneath the Lonely Mountain during the reign of Thráin I, and then shaped by the Dwarves.
This ability to create 14 treasure tokens echoes the pivotal moment in 'The Hobbit' when Smaug's wealth becomes available for the taking of the 14 members of the party. In the realm of Magic, it is the player who claims this vast fortune.
Could Smaug have destroyed the one ring when Bilbo was at the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit? 'Your small fire, of course, would not melt even ordinary gold. This Ring has already passed through it unscathed, and even unheated.
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.
Smaug's death sparked the Battle of the Five Armies. Thorin Oakenshield took Erebor for his own. Smaug's curse on the gold made Thorin was mad, and he was oblivious to everyone.
