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a losing proposition
Jan. 4th, 2013 12:48 amFirst day back at work, and I'll be fair, it wasn't that bad. No huge calamities, no great omissions discovered in my absence. (Touch wood.) Weather continues gloomy, but not actually raining at the moment. Well, not on me, at least.
Pondering the movie version of the Hobbit, I can see why they decided to throw in "the elves cruelly refrained from helping the dwarves during the whole dragon assault" in order to give Thorin reasons for his distrust of elves. But personally, I have to say that I sympathised with Thranduil in not leading his troops in a frontal assault over open ground against a dragon who'd just broken into the Lonely Mountain and destroyed the dwarf army.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.
-- The Hobbit, Tolkien
Pondering the movie version of the Hobbit, I can see why they decided to throw in "the elves cruelly refrained from helping the dwarves during the whole dragon assault" in order to give Thorin reasons for his distrust of elves. But personally, I have to say that I sympathised with Thranduil in not leading his troops in a frontal assault over open ground against a dragon who'd just broken into the Lonely Mountain and destroyed the dwarf army.
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It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. Dragons may not have much real use for all their wealth, but they know it to an ounce as a rule, especially after long possession; and Smaug was no exception.
-- The Hobbit, Tolkien
