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Anonymous Fri Mar 27 05:02:41 2020 No.14961271 [Reply] [Original]

What was Smaug's net worth?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 05:05:59 2020 No.14961283 62 billion Dollars according to Forbes. 0 because he is dead, and fictional.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 05:08:13 2020 No.14961288 >>14961283 That's the movie version though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:00:07 2020 No.14961615 5600 Urguukipanonese Biblidibubs

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:23:17 2020 No.14961703 >>14961288 Never watched the Hobbit to this day. When I saw they were going to pad it for three movies and there were POC I insta dropped it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:24:25 2020 No.14961708 >>14961703 >there were POC I insta dropped it. Didn't see any blacks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:25:41 2020 No.14961713 >>14961271 He invested it all in the stock market so I'm pretty sure he owes money now

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:26:37 2020 No.14961715 >>14961708 The Dwarves are Jews and Jews aren't white according to nazis.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:33:59 2020 No.14961742 File: 103 KB, 752x926, 1_bIseGrEpacTWNG8fogpJDQ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14961708 Look again

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:43:16 2020 No.14961779 >>14961271 what was his tax policy

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:54:08 2020 No.14961811 File: 408 KB, 714x610, 1515117110518.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14961742 Get ready for black elves in amazons LOTR...POC already been cast.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:55:58 2020 No.14961818 >>14961779 Not surprised that shit went over martins head, dudes a hack.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 07:56:22 2020 No.14961820 3.2 bitcoins

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:00:52 2020 No.14961840 >>14961271 It obviously wasn't worth much since he still got shot by an arrow Ba-ZING OH

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:03:45 2020 No.14961854 >>14961715 The dwarves aren't jews, they're golems. Never in the divine design, never the chosen people, full of a void they try to fill with deeds and treasure then returning to a void.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:12:29 2020 No.14961892 File: 79 KB, 920x518, jpg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14961854 Sure thing Moshe

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:45:41 2020 No.14962012 The book stated that Bilbo’s 1/14th share was greater than the wealth of many kings. So at least 14 * (Some king’s net worth).

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:49:52 2020 No.14962026 >>14961854 golems are literally jewish bro

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:52:57 2020 No.14962036 >>14962026 >>14961854 Gollum?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:53:11 2020 No.14962037 >>14961742 >Look again No thanks, once was more than enough.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:54:15 2020 No.14962043 >>14962012 Some king's or many kings'?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:55:24 2020 No.14962051 >>14962043 Some given king’s. Sorry, didn’t know how to phrase it cleary.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:55:29 2020 No.14962052 #occupyerebor

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:56:19 2020 No.14962056

>>14962012
His theoretical 1/14th share because he ultimately only received as much as his pony could carry, two small chests mostly used to purchase back his furniture and silver ware which were auctioned off in his absence
Ultimately the journey was the destination! The real treasure was the adventure, dwarf friends and the magic ring!

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 08:59:42 2020 No.14962075 File: 42 KB, 560x612, 1584232597148.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Fili and Kili fucking die fuck you Tolkien you nigger

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:00:27 2020 No.14962079 >>14962056 The fact that Bilbo never revealed the existence of the ring to Gandalf almost lead to genocide across middle earth.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:01:57 2020 No.14962085 >>14962079 Gandalf could have put it together though, sooner I mean

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:02:10 2020 No.14962087 >>14962079 He does reveal the ring, just not the true nature of how he acquired it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:03:13 2020 No.14962095 >rips off Wagner

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:04:16 2020 No.14962100 >>14962087 No, he only reveals it to the dwarves when they’re holed up under the mountain, and it’s not stated whether the dwarves ever told Gandalf. I just read The Hobbit for the first time a few days ago (read LOTR years ago).

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:04:31 2020 No.14962103 >>14962087 Does he tell Gandalf though? I reread the book in January, I remember Bilbo telling the dwarves about it during the spider/ elves episode but Gandalf is off chasing the necromancer when that happens

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:12:20 2020 No.14962143 >>14962085 His love of the halfling’s leaf had clearly slowed his mind. >>14962103 No, Gandalf only becomes aware of Bilbo’s possession of the ring when Bilbo pulls his disappearance trick at his 111th birthday.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 09:13:25 2020 No.14962146 >>14962143 >No, Gandalf only becomes aware of Bilbo’s possession of the ring when Bilbo pulls his disappearance trick at his 111th birthday. Ah yeah I was only thinking about The Hobbit, it's been much longer since I've read LotR

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 11:34:50 2020 No.14962816 >>14962095 >Yeah bro Tolkien stole everything from somewhere else, what he did was easy. Literally anyone could have come up with Tolkien's work, they just... didn't feel like it...

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 11:40:06 2020 No.14962847

>>14962100
Gandalf and the dwarves know about the ring by the end of the Hobbit but Bilbo lies and said that it was given by Gollum willingly as the prize for winning the riddle game. This was actually what happened in the first editions of the Hobbit until Tolkien revised that chapter in the early 50s to bring it in line with how the ring is characterized in LOTR. Bilbo gives the new account as the true version of events at the council of Elrond and the discrepancy between the accounts is taken for evidence of the corrupting effect the ring had on Bilbo straight away.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 11:45:45 2020 No.14962883 File: 83 KB, 512x308, unnamed.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14961271 >Smaug More like Smug

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 11:48:51 2020 No.14962912 >>14962847 If Gandalf knew about the ring then why wasn’t it taken straight to Mt Doom before Sauron could rejuvenate his power?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:22:26 2020 No.14963110 >>14961715 Jews aren’t white according to Jews >>14961854 Sounds like Jews to me

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:46:38 2020 No.14963237

>>14962912
Because he didn't know for sure it was Sauron's ring until later on when he checked for the inscription at bag end having been to Minas Tirith to check the old scrolls written by Isildur and searching for Gollum up and down the wild. He didn't start to suspect it was the one ring until just before Bilbo left after his party and was acting really weird about the ring. It's all explained clearly in the chapter 'the council of Elrond'.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:51:03 2020 No.14963264 >>14962095 >rips off Beowulf

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 12:58:29 2020 No.14963316 File: 417 KB, 1369x1897, wagner.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14961271 You mean Fafner?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:01:54 2020 No.14963338 >>14961703 All people are of a color.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:02:46 2020 No.14963342 File: 310 KB, 1200x1190, Snorri_sturluson_1930.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14963316 You mean Fáfnir?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:02:56 2020 No.14963345 >>14962075 kek

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:12:12 2020 No.14963388 >>14961854 Only Eru has a say in what happens to life proper – and Dwarves are imbued with the secret fire just like men and elves. They presumably go somewhere on death.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:13:17 2020 No.14963390 File: 80 KB, 925x864, questionmark_hair_ryu_umemiya__shaman_king_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14963338 Technically black is the absence of colour. So how can black be people of colour?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 13:34:10 2020 No.14963506 >>14961271 Hard to say. He invested all of his wealth into Hobbitcoin.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 17:17:05 2020 No.14964651 >>14963506 Ah, so his value was in the negative.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 17:19:46 2020 No.14964663 >>14961271 A lot, but the number is beside the point. The point is that Smaug read Adam Smith and implemented a good tax policy which enriched him with a minimum of inconvenience to the population.

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 17:36:54 2020 No.14964778

>>14964663
Adam Smith said that the government should bury gold in the woods so that the poor have something to do during a recession.
What is doing Smaug other than providing the impoverished dwarves with busywork during the economic downturn? Everyone profits

Anonymous Fri Mar 27 18:44:18 2020 No.14965208
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>>14961703
>>14961742
I wonder how Tolkien would feel about his legacy being whored out like this

I also wonder which one of his greedy ungrateful offspring forked over the rights

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 18:47:23 2020 No.14965229 Investing in gold, pretty smart

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 18:48:25 2020 No.14965237 >>14965208 Tolkein wasn't a racist and would probably be PC if he were still around. He even regretted making the orcs so one dimensionally evil

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 18:51:26 2020 No.14965263 >>14965208 Tolkien was a cuck

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 19:04:52 2020 No.14965381 >>14961715 Tolkien based his characters on real European groups. Elves were nordish, Hobbits were Irish, Dwarves were German. The archetypal Jew was Saruman the White, I am not sure what group Gandalf was.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 21:21:37 2020 No.14966201 >>14961271 About tree fiddy

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:12:55 2020 No.14966514 >>14961818 Oh no, another dumbass who gets mad at out-of-context quotes on the internet.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:15:03 2020 No.14966522 What was Aragorn’s tax policy?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:16:38 2020 No.14966531 >>14965381 >Dwarves were German. The archetypal Jew was Saruman the White Dwarves were Jewish, their language was based on Hebrew.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:21:29 2020 No.14966564 >>14966531 This. Why people purposefully ignore this. And Wagner's dwarves were also perceived as Jewish. It was a trope back then.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:22:40 2020 No.14966573 File: 1.16 MB, 838x1080, Griphook_TDH_SF.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14966564 >back then https://www.change.org/p/the-u-s-government-ban-harry-potter-from-schools-for-promoting-negative-jewish-stereotypes

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:24:44 2020 No.14966585 >>14961779 Does anyone have the atheist professor copy pasta with grr martin and the Tolkien student about this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 27 22:36:43 2020 No.14966651 >>14961703 >>14961742 Just /pol/ shitheads all the way down in here anymore...

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