Timeline for Why does Smaug have 4 legs in the 1st movie but only 2 legs in the 2nd?
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| Feb 16, 2020 at 17:38 | comment | added | Pryftan | On the other hand snakes don't have eyelids and lizards do. As for Smaug originally he was named Pryftan from Welsh: pryf = worm and tan = fire. | |
| Nov 8, 2019 at 15:34 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | As i said, Tolkien always depicted dragons with four legs. Tolkien depicted Smaug and other winged dragons with two wings & 4 legs. So the first Hobbit movie depicted Smaug with four legs and the later two Hobbit movies changed Smaug's design to 2 legs for reasons discussed in other answers. | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 23:10 | comment | added | einpoklum | So, bottom line: Is Smaug supposed to have 4 legs + 2 wings, 4+0 or 2+2? | |
| Nov 7, 2019 at 15:25 | history | edited | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 7, 2019 at 7:45 | comment | added | lfurini | This is a very interesting read, but it seems to me it answers "How many legs did Smaug have according to Tolkien?" rather than the original question "Why did Smaug have 4 legs in a movie and 2 in the others?". | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 23:42 | comment | added | jmbpiano | You might add to your answer the fact Tolkien says explicitly in chapter XIV when describing Bard's lethal blow to Smaug, "The black arrow sped straight from the string, straight for the hollow by the left breast where the foreleg was flung wide." Two-legged animals don't have forelegs. | |
| Nov 6, 2019 at 16:36 | history | edited | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 22:02 | history | edited | DavidW | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 5, 2019 at 21:41 | history | answered | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |