";s:4:"text";s:4126:" He was able to fly thanks to his large wings, and had the ability to breath streams of searing hot flame from his mouth. This "diamond waistcoat" was intended to cover Smaug's only physical weak spot, but when Bilbo Baggins confronted the dragon in his lair, he discovered a bare patch on the left side of his chest. While he does ruthlessly destroy Dale and lays waste to the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain during his attack on the Lonely Mountain, once he has assumed dominion of the region he seems content to allow the rest of Middle Earth to go about its business, so long as he or his treasure remains undisturbed; although this could be because he feels that the people living in the region have nothing he wants. Bard was told this by an ancient thrush that overheard Bilbo relating this information to the Dwarves, enabling him to defeat Smaug by shooting his Black Arrow into the bare patch. He appears as one of the two main antagonists (along with Azog) of Sir Peter Jackson's live-action The Hobbit film trilogy, serving as a background antagonist in An Unexpected Journey, the titular main antagonist of The Desolation of Smaug and a minor antagonist in The Battl… In the midst of the wreck, Bard the Bowman, the descendant of Dale's king, learned of Smaug's weakness and manages to kill him with a black arrow through exposed breast and heart. Smaug laid waste to the neighboring city of Dale before forcing the Dwarves out of their home within the Lonely Mountain with the survivors forced into exile. Tolkien, and its many adaptations. Smaug was a "great" fire drake of the Third Age, considered to be the last "great" dragon to exis… Although Bilbo was clever enough not to fall for Smaug's attempts to trick him into revealing his exact position, the dragon used the resulting conversation to plant doubts in Bilbo's mind, correctly guessing that the "burglar" had allied himself with the Dwarves and the men of Lake Town and asking if Bilbo had ever considered the logistical difficulties of getting his share of Smaug's treasure back to his home. Defensively, Smaug's reddish-gold scales rendered him impervious to nearly all weapons, but his underbelly was relatively soft and vulnerable. Bilbo and company are forced to engage in a war against an array of combatants and keep the Lonely Mountain from falling into the hands of a rising darkness. Smaug seems to dislike Dwarves, considering them to be weak and pathetic creatures far beneath him, making unfavorable comments about Thror and showing no remorse over his slaughter of their kind and claiming of their kingdom. Smaug is portrayed as being psychopathic, arrogant, and greedy, possessing an unquenchable desire for gold. Smaug's actual size is indeterminate as it is never explicitly mentioned in the The Hobbit. Smaug (also known as Smaug the Dragon) is the main antagonist of the 1937 classic fantasy novel The Hobbit by the late J.R.R. It would probably come down to chance.