Smaug
Smaug (/smaʊɡ/) is a fictional dragon and the primary antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit. He is a powerful, intelligent, malevolent and fearsome dragon who invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 150 years prior to the events described in the novel. A group of 13 Dwarves mounted a quest to take the kingdom back, aided by the wizard Gandalf and the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins. Smaug is described as "a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm". Smaug appears in the Hobbit film adaption as one of the main antagonists.
Appearances
The Hobbit
One of the last great Fire-drakes of Middle-earth, Smaug rose to prominence by laying waste to the town of Dale and capturing the Dwarf-kingdom of the Lonely Mountain (Erebor) with all of its treasure. These events occurred some 150 years before the events of The Hobbit, and Smaug was already centuries old at the time. The Hobbit recounts the tale of a party of dwarves (consisting of a few of the original residents of the Lonely Mountain and their descendants), the hobbit Bilbo Baggins, and their quest to recapture the mountain and kill the dragon. In the book, the dragon is sometimes called Smaug the Golden or Smaug the Magnificent.
Smaug (genus)
The genus Smaug is a group of spiny southern African lizards, separated from the genus Cordylus in 2011 on the basis of a comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the Cordylidae. The type species is the giant girdled lizard, S. giganteus (formerly Cordylus giganteus).
Etymology
The genus was named for the character Smaug, in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit:
Description
Smaug are large lizards (extremely large among the Cordylidae), measuring up to 112–205 mm (4.4–8.1 in) in snout–vent length. The body is sub-cylindrical in cross-section and robust. Limbs are moderate in length and digits are unreduced. Dorsal and caudal scales are enlarged and spinose. Occipital spines are greatly enlarged. Nasal scales are not in contact with one another. Frontonasal scale is in broad contact with the rostral scale. Tongue is partly or fully pigmented. Osteoderms are distributed across entire body.
Reproduction
Smaug are viviparous and give birth to 1–6 young.
Species
There are eight species:
SMAUG
SMAUG (Simulated Medieval Adventure Multi-User Game) is a Merc and DikuMUD derived MUD server. Its name is a backronym inspired by the dragon Smaug found in J. R. R. Tolkien's fiction. The project was started in May 1994 by Derek Snider and in July 1994, Realms of Despair, was opened to the public. In December 1996 the SMAUG source code was publicly released due to an earlier leak of the code and some areas.
SmaugFUSS (Fixed Up SMAUG Source) is an ongoing project dedicated to finding and eliminating as many of the bugs in the stock SMAUG source code as possible in order to provide a cleaner and more stable base for new admins wanting to run a SMAUG MUD.
SMAUG has served as a base for the development of several other MUDs.
Features
Over and above the features present in Merc 2.1, here is a list of some of the major features SMAUG includes out of the box:
Podcasts:
Smaug
ALBUMS
- ... As My Blood Runs Cold released: 2008
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A guiding light
by: SmogThe sun peaked at noon
I watched it hoping it would rise
Just a little higher
And give me a guiding light
A guiding light
I must admit I felt some relief
When the sun began to sink
I mean who really wants to see
Things in blinding white
Blinding white
It grows dark
I feel my way home
Sleep
Sleep if you can sleep
Me I'll be staying up
Long into the night
Trying to prove wrong
All the statements I made
All the statements I just made
A guiding light
You were born in the middle of the night
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