Timeline for Did Smaug have the power to destroy Barad-dûr?
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| Jun 12, 2020 at 0:14 | comment | added | suchiuomizu | @TheMadHatter Legolas was calling Sauron an 'elf bane' there, it is not some term that only means Balrog or meant that there was another Balrog in Mordor. | |
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 18:27 | comment | added | TheMadHatter | Ancalagon was the largest of the dragons.At minimum he is twice the size of Smaug.Which explains why he managed to destroy Thangoridrim . He also had one Balrog at least as Legolas says " ... deadliest of elf banes save the one that sits in the dark tower ".Smaug could probably Knock out Baradur but breaking his bones in he process probably. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 16:11 | comment | added | M. A. Golding | @The MadHatter Sauron didn't have any known Balrogs under his command. The Dark Tower was destroyed by mena and elves, sexcept for its foundations, at the end of the seond age. Ancalagon the Black, greatest of dragons, destroyed the towers of Thangorodrim by falling on them, even though they were made by Morgoth himself.. So possibly Smaug could have knocked down the less tower of Barad-dur, even if he couldn't destroy its foundations. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 12:40 | comment | added | Invisible Trihedron | "Adamant" is another form of the word "diamond", but the word can also be used in a metaphorical sense for any material that is supremely hard and unyielding. It has also been used as a synonym of lodestone (magnetite). Tolkien presumably knew all this and did not mean to enlighten his readers as to the exact composition of Barad-Dur's walls. | |
| Jun 10, 2020 at 11:15 | comment | added | user126715 | That's a good point you bring up about the tower being built and protected by the power of the Ring. I don't know if a Balrog could defeat Smaug because I don't think a Balrog's fire whip or fire sword could penetrate Smaug's scales. | |
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| Jun 10, 2020 at 4:10 | history | answered | TheMadHatter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |