Death Of Smaug

SA lizard that inspired Tolkien’s Smaug ‘facing extinction’

By Dave Chambers When JRR Tolkien completed his sketch “Death of Smaug” for The Hobbit in the early 1930s‚ he was illustrating a work of fiction. But it turns out he was being prophetic‚ too. Tolkien‚ born in Bloemfontein in 1892‚ spent…

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