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Dragon sickness. Magic, mundane or both?

Discussion in 'Lord of the Rings' started by pinkring, Aug 6, 2013.

  1. pinkring

    pinkring Well-Known Member

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    So another topic coming right from The Hobbit. Dragon sickness, the greed for dragon's treasures seems especially strong, those with certain...predispositions are affected quicker and stronger than others (including dwarves who already have fondness for hoarding wealth).
    So what do you think, is it mainly born out of deepest, dark desires within individual, or is this also some form of curse on the treasure which dragon posessed so long (remember that dragons in Arda have magic powers :) mind controlling dragon-spell for example). The treasures of Erebor were long in posession of Smaug and, in my opinion, it's not so unbeliavable to assume he had some effect upon it which might have been broken once the treasures were claimed by it's rightful owners (Dain was ,,fabulously rich" after all and some of this wealth in the Great Hall of Thrain was also given to Master of Lake-town and served to rebuild Dale and to secure it's future prosperity, and besides the death of Master (who escaped with much gold and died somewhere in wilderness) nobody seemed afflicted with it. Your thoughts.
     
    #1 pinkring, Aug 6, 2013
  2. blackstone

    blackstone Well-Known Member

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    curses on dragon's (and other creatures) hoards are quite common in middle earth. iirc the treasure of nargothrond that glaurung takes has a curse lain upon it. i think this is referenced in "the hoard" inthe adventures of tom bombabil though that poem also implies that the curse is elvish in origin, to some degree at least. there is also the curse lain upon the barrow treasures in fotr, which Tom dispells by leaving the treasure for whosoever wants it. perhaps the dragon-curse of smaug is broken in a similar way; by giving parts of it away for the restitution of dale and esgaroth, the curse may be broken? as memory serves this has rather a lot to do with ancient germanic/nordic tales abotu dragons, such as beowulf and the sigurd myths.
     
    #2 blackstone, Aug 6, 2013
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