As for the look of Smaug, Jackson knew he needed to deliver something eye-popping but he wasn’t sure where to begin: “I didn’t have a particular vision for Smaug.

From the moment that plans were first announced for a live-action adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, fans of the 1937 novel began pondering the ways in which the mighty dragon Smaug ...

He's the biggest star of the movie so there was a lot that went into creating Smaug, the dragon the size of a 747 that rules over Erebor with greedy malevolence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Smaug, the deadly dragon in J.R.R Tolkien's 'The Hobbit,' has a newly discovered living relative. With dense, alligator-like armor, this small, real-life dragon lizard, Smaug swazicus, is a rock ...

Smaug, despite his size, was not the largest dragon in Middle-earth, as Ancalagon the Black takes that title by a landslide. Morgoth, the Dark Lord, created a series of vile creatures, including ...

When we last left the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his dwarf companions, they had begun their quest to the Misty Mountains with the aid of Gandalf the Grey. The dwarves were determined to find the ...

Warner Bros. reports that Smaug earned $ 2.8 million on 909 screens in France on Wednesday. (That’s an 8 percent increase from An Unexpected Journey.) ...

“The Desolation of Smaug” is a more grandly somber movie, and also a much better one, with forces of boldly intense and unified malevolence. J.R.R. Tolkien published The Hobbit in 1937, ...

The user comes face to face with the dragon Smaug. By Carolyn Giardina Tech Editor Epic Games and Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital are premiering a three-minute virtual reality experiment loosely ...

With Smaug and "all 10 yards of his lips," however, there were other considerations, Letteri says. "He's got this huge jaw that goes all the way down to the back of his mouth than humans don't.

Early on in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), having proved his mettle as a budding thief and honorary comrade to Thorin’s band of dwarves, ...