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![[Fan Art] Smaug the Terrible](http://d.furaffinity.net/art/ulariogryphon/1418751457/1418751457.ulariogryphon_smaug.jpg "Click to change the View")
I am SMAUG!
I kill when I wish!
I am strong, strong, STRONG!
My armor is like tenfold shields!
My teeth like swords!
My claws, spears!
The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt!
My wings, a hurricane!
And my breath, death!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Hobbit fanart from me is actually long overdue since the book was one of the two things that got me into fantasy when I was very little. (The other being the Lion. the Witch and the Wardrobe...)
The scene where Bilbo encountered Smaug was what stuck with me the most. And even at ten years old, I had a crystal clear image in my head of what Smaug looked like. While I do enjoy seeing other interpretations of the character quite a bit, I do kind-of-sort-of hate his designs for the movies. So with the final Hobbit movie coming out this week, I figured I'd draw my own interpretation of what has been in my head for all these years. :)
Tools Used: Photoshop version CS4, Paint Tool Sai
Time Taken: Unrecorded
Soundtrack: "Battle for the Mountain" - The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies Soundtrack
Image © 2014 Traci Vermeesch
DO NOT copy, alter, repost, etc without the consent of the artist! Character/Image are NOT public domain!
Please think before you type...
and please read before asking questions. I will no longer be answering questions that can either be answered by simply reading the image's description or by spending 5 seconds to Google the answer.
I kill when I wish!
I am strong, strong, STRONG!
My armor is like tenfold shields!
My teeth like swords!
My claws, spears!
The shock of my tail, a thunderbolt!
My wings, a hurricane!
And my breath, death!
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Hobbit fanart from me is actually long overdue since the book was one of the two things that got me into fantasy when I was very little. (The other being the Lion. the Witch and the Wardrobe...)
The scene where Bilbo encountered Smaug was what stuck with me the most. And even at ten years old, I had a crystal clear image in my head of what Smaug looked like. While I do enjoy seeing other interpretations of the character quite a bit, I do kind-of-sort-of hate his designs for the movies. So with the final Hobbit movie coming out this week, I figured I'd draw my own interpretation of what has been in my head for all these years. :)
Tools Used: Photoshop version CS4, Paint Tool Sai
Time Taken: Unrecorded
Soundtrack: "Battle for the Mountain" - The Hobbit: Battle of Five Armies Soundtrack
Image © 2014 Traci Vermeesch
DO NOT copy, alter, repost, etc without the consent of the artist! Character/Image are NOT public domain!
Please think before you type...
and please read before asking questions. I will no longer be answering questions that can either be answered by simply reading the image's description or by spending 5 seconds to Google the answer.
Category All / Fanart
Species Western Dragon
Size 1236 x 800px
File Size 467.3 kB
Very awesome work.
And god, there does need to be a "Team Smaug" shirt out there. Because, to hell with Team Bella/Jacob/Edward.
Actually, this interpretation remind me(loosely) of both existing artwork of the character predating the movies and also a comic adaptation of it that I own(though this onewas perhaps a bit more stylized than others).
And god, there does need to be a "Team Smaug" shirt out there. Because, to hell with Team Bella/Jacob/Edward.
Actually, this interpretation remind me(loosely) of both existing artwork of the character predating the movies and also a comic adaptation of it that I own(though this onewas perhaps a bit more stylized than others).
Now, combine that image with Benedict Cumberbatch's voice and you pretty much have the perfect Smaug.
Smaug has a lot of interesting backstory, which his newfound popularity brought all back to me.
What most people don't really realize (and was only written later) is that Smaug actually was a veteran of the War of Wrath, Middle Earth's version of WWI. He fought, along with all the other Fire Drakes, on behalf of his Master Morgoth, who was more or less Sauron's Big Boss. He is descended, like all Fire Drakes, from Ancalagon the Black, this charming fellow: http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb.....ubendevela.jpg
So why was he so insufferable? Besides being created specifically to wreck things on a grand scale, he was the last of Morgoth's Fire Drakes to survive. All the others, including Ancalagon himself, perished in the War of Wrath or were slain shortly afterward.
The primary (retconned) reason for the Battle of the Five Armies was that Sauron thought that the One Ring was in Smaug's hoard. He wanted the Ring, of course, but he also wanted to try and recruit Smaug. Try to imagine how the Battle of Midas Tirith would have gone with Smaug leading the Ringwraths...
...except Eärendil, father of Elrond and slayer of Ancalagon the Black, had a distant relative in Lake-Town, with a bow crafted with elven skill, and an arrow that is his one link to his elven relatives.
As Paul Harvey used to say, and now you know the rest of the story!
Smaug has a lot of interesting backstory, which his newfound popularity brought all back to me.
What most people don't really realize (and was only written later) is that Smaug actually was a veteran of the War of Wrath, Middle Earth's version of WWI. He fought, along with all the other Fire Drakes, on behalf of his Master Morgoth, who was more or less Sauron's Big Boss. He is descended, like all Fire Drakes, from Ancalagon the Black, this charming fellow: http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb.....ubendevela.jpg
So why was he so insufferable? Besides being created specifically to wreck things on a grand scale, he was the last of Morgoth's Fire Drakes to survive. All the others, including Ancalagon himself, perished in the War of Wrath or were slain shortly afterward.
The primary (retconned) reason for the Battle of the Five Armies was that Sauron thought that the One Ring was in Smaug's hoard. He wanted the Ring, of course, but he also wanted to try and recruit Smaug. Try to imagine how the Battle of Midas Tirith would have gone with Smaug leading the Ringwraths...
...except Eärendil, father of Elrond and slayer of Ancalagon the Black, had a distant relative in Lake-Town, with a bow crafted with elven skill, and an arrow that is his one link to his elven relatives.
As Paul Harvey used to say, and now you know the rest of the story!
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