Reply To: LotR revisited – what Peter Jackson got right and what he didn't

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@onlyonepinman yep … which is why instead of trying to pretend we understand alien mating rituals the average writer will write it for humans.

side note : It’s weird how the average RPG tends to have half-human/alien hybrids, but never non-human pairings.
Surely Half-Orc/Dwarf would exist … or Half-Orc/Elves ?

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Smaug is fat and lazy by the time Bilbo & co arrives. He’s been raiding the local region since getting to the mountain and the gold fever has affected him too.

In the book Bilbo is the only one daring to get close and his strange non-dwarven smell confuses and intrigues the dragon.
They survive being burned alive because all of them are hiding inside the secret passage the beast hadn’t found, which is why he starts to terrorize the local city instead as he suspects the locals have helped the thieves.