A title given to the Dragon Smaug by the Dwarves of Thorin's Company, using 'Worm' in its older sense of 'Serpent' or 'Dragon'.
Although more usually used to describe the common earthworm, the English language word "worm" derives from Old Norse orm and Old English wyrm, meaning "serpent" or "dragon". The synonymous usage of worm and dragon in English lessened during the following centuries.
Smaug (/smaʊɡ/) is a dragon and the main antagonist in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit, his treasure and the mountain he lives in being the goal of the quest. Powerful and fearsome, he invaded the Dwarf kingdom of Erebor 150 years prior to the events described in the novel.
I thought maybe it was a type of epithet; calling a dragon a worm belittles it's proud nature by relating it to something much less honorable. In fact, it has nothing to do with that at all and is much simpler. It comes from the Old English 'wyrm,' which means 'serpent.
While it could be down to simple nerves, Bilbo was hesitant to give the dragon his full name. He was well aware of the destruction Smaug could cause and didn't want to give him any hints as to where he may live.
A Lord of the Rings movie theory indicates that, in Peter Jackson's beloved trilogy, Frodo Baggins didn't know Legolas' name. This would be a significant surprise since the Fellowship of the Ring members are often considered the closest of companions.
Posted on Reddit by user applecub, the theory posits that Legolas' name slipped Frodo's mind since their introduction was brief and overshadowed by the daunting task of destroying the One Ring. By the time they reunited in Rivendell, Frodo didn't ask Legolas for his name to avoid offending him.
The Dragon appears as the secondary antagonist in the 2007 film adaptation of the same name. He is also known as the Golden Man and is the son of Beowulf and Grendel's mother.
How did Beowulf fight the dragon? Beowulf fights the dragon with the help of his companion, Wiglaf. He tries to use his sword, but it breaks when he strikes the dragon. Wiglaf stabs the dragon in the belly and then Beowulf uses a knife to strike the final blow.
Beowulf is not afraid of the dragon because he has the utmost confidence in his own strength. Every time in the past, Beowulf was able to overcome his enemies through a combination of courage, cunning, and physical prowess.
Surprisingly, the bigger challenge to the reality of Smaug lies in his least surprising trait – an ability to fly. This becomes clear from an application of a bag of tricks widely used by physicists, known as scaling laws.
Smaug. Smaug was considered to be the last "great" dragon of Middle-earth. Sauron allied with Smaug and intended to use the dragon's powers against the people of Middle-earth. But before that could happen, Smaug was slain by Bard the Bowman.
In the conversation between Smaug and Bilbo, Bilbo calls him "Smaug the Tremendous", "Smaug the Chiefest and Greatest of Calamities", "Smaug the Mighty", "Smaug the Unassessably Wealthy", "Lord Smaug the Impenetrable" and "Your Magnificence", and later Bilbo refers to him as "Smaug the Terrible" and "Smaug the Dreadful ...
Smaug was the last named dragon of Middle-earth. He was slain by Bard, a descendant of Girion, Lord of Dale.
Smaug Is Not The First Dragon
Smaug is the first dragon who comes to the minds of Tolkien fans around the globe, but he's not the only one to have terrorized Middle Earth. That dubious honor goes to Glaurung, the Father of Dragons.
When a dragon is never observed to have laid eggs, this is taking as proof that it must have been male. However, according to Barth and Maester Aemon, dragons have no fixed gender, but are “now one and now the other, as changeable as flame”.
The last dragon had been a green female, who lived in King's Landing. She was sickly, small, misshapen, and stunted, with withered wings. Her name is not known.
King Aegon II Targaryen's dragon Sunfyre managed to kill two of the remaining dragons in possession of House of the Dragon's black party, Moondancer and the wild Grey Ghost, before the end of the civil war. Sunfyre himself would die in 130 AC, slowly perishing from the wounds he received from Moondancer.
Almost immediately, Daenerys encountered tragedy as Euron Greyjoy shot her dragon Rhaegal out of the sky and kidnapped her right-hand woman Missandei, who was later beheaded on the walls of King's Landing.
Grendel is portrayed in the film as a diseased and deformed creature. Described by the film crew as "The embodiment of pain", he was born with a large external eardrum which causes him pain whenever the singing in Heorot echoes in his lair. This weakness is exploited by Beowulf in his battle with the monster.
Wealhtheow (also rendered Wealhþēow or Wealthow; Old English: Ƿealhþēoƿ [ˈwæɑɫxθeːow]) is a queen of the Danes in the Old English poem, Beowulf, first introduced in line 612.
He is portrayed as King Hrothgar's illegitimate son after an affair with his mother.
The actor is suffering from Legolas Syndrome — where you accidentally get cast into a role that suits you far more than your real-life looks, leaving you with a tricky predicament after the wrap party.
Legolas was the son of Thranduil, King of the Woodland Realm of Northern Mirkwood, who appeared as "the Elvenking" in The Hobbit. Thranduil, one of the Sindar or "Grey Elves", ruled over the Silvan Elves or "Wood-elves" of Mirkwood.
As many have observed before, the interactions between Frodo and Legolas are severely limited in the trilogy even though they are allies. In fact, there's only one line that Legolas says to Frodo: “And you have my bow.”