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Smaug the Golden (Del. "squeezed through a hole") was the most cunning and infamous of the Grey Mountain Dragons, considered the last great Fire-drake. Content with amassing what wealth he could, he gave no indication of other malevolent intents, though some of the Wise feared him being attracted by the returned Shadow. A notably arrogant individual, Smaug knew only sloth and greed to be his true masters. He was slow to anger but exceptionally pitiless, spiteful, wrathful, and vain. Although red

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