What did he want with gold?

Kill the men
and the Elves
Keep the gold
for ourselves

Dragons can only get comfy on beds of Gold.

Probably hedging against currency devaluation. I would guess that the legal tender in Middle-Earth was a fiat currency without ties to gold. Given that we do not know a lot about the tax policy in Middle-Earth, it stands to reason that events such as war, civil uprising etc. could negatively (i.e. positively) affect inflation. I guess Smaug wanted to hedge against this eventuality by hoarding gold. Which is kind of superfluous, given that he also occupied the Lonely Mountain: Real estate is a phenomenal hedge against inflation or hyperinflation.
Ultimately, it seems that Smaug harbors irrational misgivings against the stock market.

Is Smaug the shittiest dragon in the history of cinema?
Normalfags fawn over him as if he's done sort of magnum opus when in reality he's a pathetic joke that does nothing and Immediately dies in the books while in the movies he's a lizard with Parkinson's

Well why didnt they get a dragon for this movie

couldn’t afford the jewgold it would cost

Animal actors are difficult to work with

Banned in NZ, just like Aussies are now.

he was hedging against a collapse in the mortgage equities market. even then it was obvious that would cause a commodities bubble.

Crypto

Did he paid taxes?

Whaddaya selling

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>Dragon hoarding gold
I know people always say the Dwarves are Jews in Tolkien's books, but I think it was the Dragon that was supposed to represent the Jew.

>in the history of cinema
yes
>in the history of literature
no

well what was the tax policy like at the time?

Who's the worst dragon of literature, the one from eragon?

He's an investor

Wyverns work for cheap and the average moviegoer can't tell the difference.

Leather vampire escorts

He wanted to be FABULOUS darling
also gold is non taxable

>immediately dies in the books
you should consider reading the books

Smaug should have split his portfolio between Bitcoin and Ethereum when the crypto market bottomed out.

He was saving up to provide for his family.

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They don't always have the steak available on the night, but Saruman's is the kind of fancy joint with no prices on the menus, and it's hard to get a reservation if you don't have a wealthy firebrand reputation around town

>I AM FIRE
>I AM....
>DEATH!!!

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T-rex's respond well to the brainpower. Great dragons like Smaug have an ability that allows them.to reject the brainbox control device.

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Smeg's plan
>Remove as much non-Mordor gold from circulation as possible
>Massively inflate the value of Mordor gold
>Mordor dominates Middle Earth's economy
>Sauron gains dominance over all Middle Earth
>Begins diversification of elvish supremacist lands with downtrodden orcs

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He wanted to make his own currency backed by it.

They are outs of dragons
youtu.be/8ileR0BuEmE?t=355

Smaug in particular is based on fafnir; a dwarf cursed to be so greedy that he jewed himself into a monstrous form to reflect his inner self.
The curse was caused by Advari, a dwarf who got so assmad at the loss of his shekels that he put a curse on a ring Loki took.

So when you dig deeper, it's all goes back to those bearded manlets again.

I always took it to be like birds who decorate their nests with colorful or shiny shit.

How did he get so articulate though if he's just a big, dumb animal attracted to shiny objects?

He doesn't do anything with the gold, he's like a living embodiment of greed.