Note: This is the finalized version of the essay originally published as "How Large Was Smaug Really?" You can also find it on Quora in...

The following is planned to be submitted for canon review in the Quora space The Nine. You can find the final draft here. Smaug the...

Brandon Sanderson: Outside

Fireballs. Beautiful fireballs. In this gif, you can see Toothless blowing up the top of a wooden tower. It makes a pretty impressive...

Note: The numbers here are very rough, and really only good to about an order of magnitude. They just give us some idea of what the Red...

Universe: Earth (How To Train Your Dragon franchise) Creature type: Dragon (winged) Size: 400 feet long (including tail) Abilities: Fire...

Movies vs show. Okay, this is a more even fight. Let's dive right in. Size: Smaug's size Smaug was called "twice as big as a 747" by a...

Spoiler: I don't know. In a previous essay, I argued that Smaug could destroy Toothless. I don't think he'd ever get off a shot to...

Please note that these figures are very, very rough (due to the volume of the Red Death being rather difficult to figure out with...

I'm literally agonizing over who would win between a multi-hundred-ton demon who shrugged off molten gold and a car-sized flying lizard with

Here's the feat. All right, I'll run the numbers. Sadly, Imgur does not give precise second decimal numbers on their gifs, so I have to...

Smaug blasts Lake-Town. This post is gonna be short. it's just an explanation of why we can know Smaug really does emit...

If you are a Star Wars fan or a Harry Potter fan, or a fan of anything besides LotR, you know that reading this blog is not going to be...

This is a commentary on the SpacesBattles thread. In blue italics are my comments and rebuttals. I didn't finish this post, but I got...

"No one wants me. No one can even touch me. You saw that. I was born with too much fire."—The Dragonet Prophecy Universe: Pyrriha (Tui T....

"Toothless didn't just become my friend. He became the friend who gave me my purpose." —Book of Dragons (short) Universe: Earth (How to...

"My armor is like tenfold shields. My teeth are like swords! My claws, spears!"—The Hobbit (cartoon) Universe: Arda (Rankin-Bass)...

"I am fire. I am...death."—The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Universe: Arda (Peter Jackson) Creature type: Dragon (winged) Size:...

"My armour is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane,...