... evil in "The Hobbit" is an evil that is much more familiar to any reader, the evil of greed. This trait is most prominent in the character of the gigantic dragon Smaug. Even though Smaug has no use for great amounts of gold and jewels, he covets and guards his stolen fortune to the death. The ... dragon was born with the desire to plunder towns and kill the innocent to gain his utmost desires, treasure of any and all sorts. Tolkien may very well have created this ... ...

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... the misty mountains so he would not lose his "precious," and slowly became the creature known as Gollum. Another evil that is more familiar to most readers is greed. Smaug, a dragon from The Hobbit, had no use for the great amounts of jewels and gold he stole from the Dwarves, but still held all his possessions close. Tolkien had created a character ... ...

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... the energy of the creative Source: before it fall the shells of the Outworn. For the mythological hero is the champion not the things become but of this becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo: Holdfast, the keeper of the past. (Campbell 337) As Aragorn moves on toward his kingship through battle ... ...

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