Character History
Character Book John R.R. Tolkina "Hobbit, or there and back", as well as a number of shields of this text that the director Peter Jackson took off. Golden dragon, winged and firewood. The chief villain - assigned the treasures of the gnomes who lived under a lonely mountain, burned and destroyed the city of Dale. When a small gnome detachment, headed by Torin Cupcake, appeared in the possessions of the smubug, the dragon was angry and began to destroy the city of people Esgarot on the duty of Lake, but in the process was killed by Bard from the genus Dale.History of origin
Working out the image of the scaby dragon, Tolkien relied on the appropriate samples from Anglo-Saxon literature and Scandinavian mythology. As a result, the smubug has a lot of common features with the character of the Icelandic "Sague about Völsunga" by the Dragon Fafnir, as well as with the Dragon from the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf.
Like these two ancient characters, literary sickness dies, after he is applied to a wound into the bottom of the body. The Smalthan and Bilbo dialog is based on the same principle that the conversation of the Dragon of Fafnir with the hero of Sigurd. Neither Bilbo nor Sigurd is called the dragon of his real name and speak of themselves with riddles. And Fafenir, and Pogobi try to influence the interlocutor, causing a distrust of comrades.
Giving interviews on the radio, Tolkien said that the smeared really has similarities with Fafnir, but there is between them and the difference. According to the author, Maug - "Only a smart lizard", while Fafnir is an anthropomorphic hero, which only accepted the shape of the Dragon.
The similarity with Beowulf, according to Tolkien, was random. Beowulf was for the author a valuable source of impressions. But it is specifically that the episode where Bilbo from the mountain treasure of the dragon steals the bowl, was dictated exclusively to plot logic, and a coincidence with a similar passage from Beowulf is not intentional. Under the assumption of Tolkien, the plot logic simply pushed himself with the author of Beowulf in the same direction.
Character, manner of behavior and the features of the smube as a character, however, they are rooted in this Anglo-Saxon poem. Tolkien was a professor of an Anglo-Saxon language and an expert on Beowulf, read about this text lecture.
The plot line of the smube is built on the same canons as the Dragon Line in Beowulf. The character lies on gold, he is an incredible number of years, the thief breaks down to peace of the dragon, and the dragon then Mustit, attacking from the sky. At the same time, Tolkinovsky schug has a pronounced personality, it is not just a symbolic embodiment of greed and thirst for destruction.
In Beowulfa, you can find the idea of the damned treasure, the touch to which the Dragon disease causes greed. In the same way and in the "Hobbit" - the possession of dragon treasures was not the best reflected in the gnomes.
Researchers of Tolkien's creativity brought many variants of the etymology named after "Moug". Faindo-European roots of this word were found, the mysterious ancient English spell about the "penetrating worm" - Wið Sméogan Wyrme was sent - Wi-Sméogan Wyrme, they built the name of the smalthieut to the Old Verbal verb "crawled" - smjúga.
Tolkien himself wrote that the ancient German verb Smugan used as a dragon name in the form of the past time - "squeezed into the hole," and called it a "philological joke of low sewing."
While working on the manuscript of "Hobbit", Tolkien changed the name of the dragon. In the early version, the Dragon is named PRIFTAN, from Welsh "RRYFTAN" - "Fire Snakes". Later, revising the text of the first chapter, Tolkien changed the name of the dragon on the smube.
The fate of the Dragon also changed. In Tolkien drafts, different variants of the smalthy line are found. According to one of the versions, Bilbo Baggins kills the dragon while he sleeps. Ultimately, Tolkien stopped at a well-known version when the dragon dies during the battle on the long lake.
There are many pencil sketches and two detailed images of a smube made by Tolkin. These illustrations were subsequently used in the compilation of the Hobbit editions. Especially performed in the watercolor technique "Conversation with a purple", where the dragon will face a pile of gold in the gnome dungeon and greedily hugs the treasure tails.
"Hobbit, or back and back"
Smug - golden red winged dragon. Nicknames "Golden", "terrible", "bringing perfection" are added to the name of the hero. Wanting to plead the dragon (and longer), Bilbo during the conversation awards the smalthy and other uncertain nicknames.
In the Tolkinov text, the smart is described as strong, greedy and disgusting, the largest among the living dragons. Back in the young years, the emulsion was higher than five feet growth, and in the heyday they reached 60 feet - that is, 18 with small meters. It is immeasurably less than in the screening of Jackson, but more than enough for a dangerous predator.
Smug knows how to fly and erupt the flame, the hero's tail punch is compared with the shock of the taran, which are controlled by giants. This powerful tail is used to engage in the hobbit and dwarves. In addition to incredible physical strength, the dragon has charms. Thanks to the ring of alliance, the hobbit during a conversation with the dragon remained invisible. But when the eyes of the Smalthan eye fell at him, Bilbo felt the strongest desire to tell Dragon everything and imagine himself.
The weakness of the smash is love for mysteries. The hero is not able to resist their temptation to solve them. Makes it intuitively, demonstrating intelligence, not peculiar to "festivals." Surchant sarcastic and has a specific sense of humor. Dragon eloquently and leads a conversation in the style of the representative of the English "Higher Society" - with aggressive exquisite politeness. To undermine the confidence Bilbo to the satellites, the dragon convinces the Hobbit that the cunning and greedy gnomes deceive the fact that Bilbo services will not receive anything for the services of the "hacker".
By the text of the "Hobbit", the Golden Golden destroyed the Kingdom of the Gnomes of the Lonely Mountain, brought by news of the extreme wealth of this kingdom. At the same time, the dragon destroyed the human city Dale, standing nearby. During the attack of the smalthy part of the gnomes, together with the king and his heirs saved.
Later, the son of the Gnome King Train decided to regain his father's lands and even went on the road, but the Dark Lord of Sauron took the gnome captured and concluded in the fortress. Later in this fortress was the wizard Gandalf, who learned from the dying train on the return of Sauron in the Mediterranean. This caused unnecessary concerns from a wizard that Sauron would want to return power to himself, and in the allies will take the dragon.
Later, Gandalf meets Torin, the Son of Train, and persuades that to organize a secret mission to a lonely mountain to win the gnome kingdom, but at the same time not oppose the dragon openly. Gandalf also proposes to take the team of Bilbo, because the dragon did not meet the hobbits before and does not know how they smell, and it can help in business.
Arriving in place, the gnomes find a secret move. Bilbo goes to the depths of the mountain, where it finds a treasury, and in it - sleeping smume. There, the hobbit steals the gold bowl and choose with it outside, to the dwarfs. The smack of meaning wakes up, finds that in the mountain treasure loss, and comes to rage. The dragon is selected from the treasury and in search of the thief searches the mountain slopes. Bilbo and gnomes are hiding at this time, so only six pony gets the smool.
The dragon returns under the mountain, and Bilbo again goes to the treasury of the gnomes, this time putting the ring of all-in-law in order to become invisible. Missile does not see Bilbo, but the presence of the Hobbit. Bilbo leads a conversation with a dragon, during which SMAG tries to find out what this attack fell on his head. During this conversation, Bilbo was able to coal in the Dragon armor of the flaw, which tells the gnomes after running away from the smashing.
The dragon, meanwhile, is again chosen from the gnome caves and trying to deal with the dwarves on the slopes of the mountain, and then flies to the city of Escarot on a long lake. Bilbo during the conversation managed to "merge" the dragon news that the inhabitants of the Esharost had a gnomam assistance during the campaign, and the Smug would crave to revenge these people.
In Escarot, the dragon caused a lot of destruction and arranged a fire, but did not have time to completely destroy. Captain Archers Bard from the genus of Dale's lords struck the smalthy in a vulnerable place for a special arrow forged dwarves. The dead Dragon fell to the city and so finally destroyed what else survived.
Shielding
In the trilogy "Hobbit", which the director Peter Jackson took off the belief of the same name Tolkina, the image of the dragon created and voiced the British actor Benedict Cumberbatch.
Created using computer animation, the dragon "comes to life" thanks to the technology "Motion Capture" - capture of facial expressions and movements. A special suit with sensors and a helmet with a camera attached to the actor to the camera. In this gear, the actor performed the dragon movements, and the camera at that time fixed the facial expiration, which was then handed over the pigeon. As a result, the behavior and character of the dragon, whom the viewer sees on the screen, created through the acting game to the same extent as computer animation. Smug tells Cumberbet's voice, which is somewhat "odoradoni" with sound effects.
Tolkinovsky smear from the moment of creation became the reference of the Dragon's image in modern European literature and art, so before the Jackson team there was a difficult task - to create a visual image of a dragon, which will not resemble a single movie created earlier and even exceed them all. During the development, a lot of smalthy concepts was proposed, various. Among them came across very far from classical representations, for example, based on the image of a hammer-headed shark.
The option chosen for further refinement was a "strange mixture of crocodile and snake." Above this way, the designers continued to work further, as a result, he did not work out as a result, whose audience see in films. The dragon was enormous, one and a half hundred hundred meters, and these are two Boeing-747 aircraft. Much more than a smart in the story of Tolkien.
Three films of the Hobbit series came out from 2012 to 2014. This is "Hobbit: an unexpected journey", "Hobbit: Smalthan Waste" and "Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Militans."