I totally am. Imagine collecting Star Wars stuff. That never works. However, my collection of Babylon 5 stuff totally worked. For the same reason people need gems, diamonds, gold, oil, watches, luxury racing cars, houses with 25 rooms and 5 bathrooms.
Dragons are very much like humans, greedy. I dunno. The Tolkien explanation is fine and all, based on historical literature. I've even read online that Tolkien had elements of the dragons reproducing on their own to some extent. As is the basic drive of almost every living thing in our world. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Why did Smaug gather a treasure of gold and other precious objects? Ask Question. Asked 8 years, 11 months ago. Active 2 years ago. Viewed 35k times. Why did Smaug gather his treasure? Improve this question. Community Bot 1. DavRob60 DavRob60 For the record, the sole purpose of the mission is not to rob Smaug.
The purpose was to get the mountain back , with the treasure as a benefit of that. Because that's what dragons do. Worries of hyperinflation. Gold's always been the haven of those who worry about economic stability. Gold therapy : guaranteed to make your scales shine! Appear years younger! Be a hit with the ladies!
I'm interested in this question because my wife has the same problem as Smaug, tends to after gold and jewelry that's completely inedible. Show 9 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. From The Hobbit : Dragons steal gold and jewels , you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can find them; and they guard their plunder as long as they live which is practically forever, unless they are killed , and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Improve this answer. NominSim NominSim One might note, however, that this quote is from a speech by Thorin, so is his opinion of dragon motivations, not necessarily Tolkien's canonical definition of dragonhood.
To be fair that still may make it an inaccurate opinion, but it is backed up by the only canon examples of dragons that we see. I'd view this usage in a similar light, despite it being used by a character this time. My original plan was to look at a section of the trailer that shows gold pieces flying through the air. If I measure the acceleration of one piece of gold as it falls, I can assume that it has Earth-like acceleration of 9. From this, I could find the scale of something in the scene.
Well, that didn't work out too well. Instead, I am just going with plain estimations. Here is a shot of Bilbo sliding down a pile of gold. I previously estimated that a hobbit was about 1. That would put this gold hill with a slope side at least 5 meters long inclined at 20 degrees above the horizontal. I think that actually, this gold pile might even be much larger than this estimate. Assuming the floor under the pile is flat, this would be a cone of gold like this.
If I know the radius of the base circle and the height of the cone, then the volume would be:. Since I know the length of the slope and the angle, I can find both of the radius and the height.
Using these values, I get a gold-volume of I'm just going to guess that this is one of about 4 piles of gold. Yes, these are crazy guesses, but I have to start somewhere. That would give a total gold volume of about cubic meters.
No one cares about the volume of gold. Instead we want to know how much it's worth. We humans on Earth not Middle Earth put a price on gold in terms of ounces. This is the hardest part. How big is the dragon? How big is a hobbit? We need some value here. My original plan was to look at a section of the trailer that shows gold pieces flying through the air.
If I measure the acceleration of one piece of gold as it falls, I can assume that it has Earth-like acceleration of 9. From this, I could find the scale of something in the scene. Instead, I am just going with plain estimations. Here is a shot of Bilbo sliding down a pile of gold.
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