About Smaug and Bilbo's Indeterminable Role

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies extends the last storyline of the Middle-earth world in destruction from Smaug(dragon) and ultimately ends all the series of Middle-earth stories in this episode.

  

Smaug to some extent plays a role in fighting with those dwarfs and Bilbo at the beginning of the film since he not only occupies Dwarves’ homeland by force but exposes his assumption of the terror that everyone should be afraid of him. He is portrayed as a vicious dragon attempting to bring the bad luck to the Lake Town if he was awakened inside the Dwarves’ Palace at the Lonely Mountain. Possessing the destructive power while being told in folktales making the legend, Smaug is mostly considered to be the symbol of death as well as fear in people’s mind. What Smaug believes is that there is no one can beat him down because he is the greatest creature by far, signifying the very figure of terror for all the people who intend to combat him. Smaug resembling his name for being smug, appears to be closely related to referring his narcissistic while making a raid on the Dwarfs or the villagers living in The Lake Town as a performer aggrandizing his depredation towards both of them as well as exposing his arrogance for merely showing off himself by augmenting the terror in people's mind. Nonetheless, Smaug swirls a bit while the seemingly small figure, Bilbo, confronts with him and temporarily saves his life at the moment.

The Dwarfs are Smaug’s old opponent; however, it is the first time for Smaug to meet the Hobbit, Bilbo at the end of the second episode in The Hobbit. Bilbo tries not to reveal his true identity and cut the relation to the Dwarves by lying to Smaug while being asked. Despite feeling shivering, Bilbo exerts his cleverness to slightly pretend to admire the awe and dignity of dragon though in vain. Still, Smaug tries to know this little one by asking Bilbo where he comes from and who he is. Bilbo keeps changing the identities of being adept in various fields through distracting the true identity of name while confronting with Smaug. For example, Bilbo replies that he comes from “under the hill,” and he walks through the air and he is the one who walks “unseen.” Rather directly showing his identity, Bilbo swiftly changes the one “unseen,” arousing Smaug’s interest to keep asking him and defer the time to death in the meantime. Swiftly, Bilbo subsequently tells the dragon that he is the “luckwearer” and then he further changes it into “riddleman” which sounds more intriguing for Smaug. Under such condition, Bilbo meanwhile plays a mid-role between the viewer of watching the Dwarfs suffering by dragon and the one who conspires with the Dwarfs in group. For Smaug, Bilbo remains unknown and is hidden intricately beyond measure. As Bilbo is recognized as merely “a thief” by Smaug while showing his appearance around the treasure, he can barely think other name but that of one stealing things from him. It is the middleman Bilbo cunningly plays, as if he cuts the relationship with the Dwarfs back to his unknown identity for Smaug but in need of drawing close to the Dwarfs for being aid of their partner.

     

But Smaug does not literally hate Bilbo but the Dwarfs due to the resentment from the past. What Smaug believes lies in the fact that Bilbo is the one who aligns them closely without any suspicious. Targeting the Dwarfs as a definite way, Smaug heads for them performing his great aggression against the Dwarfs while letting the hobbit, Bilbo, become his spectator as standing a position of mediator watching the Dwarfs to be attacked. Bilbo again falls into a man who hardly stands staunchly on both sides but always remains beyond them as constantly a sort of a glide from sides among them. There are flights in a variety Bilbo always takes subtly in his own way.