The Tolkien Quote Database
Quotes by and about Smaug
"I kill where I wish and none dare resist. I laid low the warriors of old and their like is not in the world today. Then I was but young and tender. Now I am old and strong, strong strong."
Smaug
J.R.R. Tolkien, Inside Information, The Hobbit
"There were lots of dragons in the North in those days, and gold was probably getting scarce up there, with the dwarves flying south or getting killed, and all the general waste and destruction that dragons make going from bad to worse. There was a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug."
Thorin
J.R.R. Tolkien, An Unexpected Party, The Hobbit
"My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!"
Smaug
J.R.R. Tolkien, Inside Information, The Hobbit