04-07-2011, 08:54 PM | #1 | |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ilha Formosa
Posts: 2,068
|
How Rich is Smaug?
8.6 billion US dollars
According to calculations by Forbe's magazine, publisher of lists of the world's wealthiest people in various categories, Smaug is number 7 on their "Fictional 15" richest list. http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelnoer/...-dragon-worth/ Favorite line: Quote:
http://www.forbes.com/lists/fictiona...tional-15.html
__________________
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill Last edited by GrayMouser : 04-07-2011 at 08:57 PM. |
|
04-07-2011, 10:48 PM | #2 |
High King at Annuminas Administrator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Wyoming - USA
Posts: 10,752
|
He neglects to account for the real estate... Solitary mountain commanding 360 degree views of landscape all around... LOT$ of acreage!!! Improvements made by previous tenants including numerous subterranean chambers of all sorts and sizes, a sort of mysterious tunnel heading up to the west from the lowest chamber and a spring of water flowing out of the main gate and down on the south side of the mountain. Woods have been mostly cleared for ease of further development.
Gotta be worth SOMETHING!!!
__________________
My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!! |
04-07-2011, 11:23 PM | #3 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ilha Formosa
Posts: 2,068
|
Good point! Not to mention convenient access to Laketown.
Though the neighborhood might not be the best- "The Desolation of Smaug" lacks a certain cachet. Might best be described as a "fixer-upper."
__________________
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill |
04-08-2011, 12:05 AM | #4 |
Half-Elven Princess of Rabbit Trails and Harp-Wielding Administrator (beware the Rubber Chicken of Doom!)
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Not where I want to be ...
Posts: 15,254
|
Cute! Go Smaug!!
__________________
. I should be doing the laundry, but this is MUCH more fun! Ñá ë?* óú éä ïöü Öñ É Þ ð ß ® ç å ™ æ ♪ ?* "How lovely are Thy dwelling places, O Lord of hosts! ... For a day in Thy courts is better than a thousand outside." (from Psalm 84) * * * God rocks! Entmoot : Veni, vidi, velcro - I came, I saw, I got hooked! Ego numquam pronunciare mendacium, sed ego sum homo indomitus! Run the earth and watch the sky ... Auta i lómë! Aurë entuluva! |
04-08-2011, 12:18 AM | #5 |
High King at Annuminas Administrator
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Wyoming - USA
Posts: 10,752
|
Oooooo... did he also fail to calculate in the value of the mithril shirt???
__________________
My Fanfic: Letters of Firiel Tales of Nolduryon Visitors Come to Court Ñ á ë ?* ó ú é ä ï ö Ö ñ É Þ ð ß ® ™ [Xurl=Xhttp://entmoot.tolkientrail.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=ABCXYZ#postABCXYZ]text[/Xurl] Splitting Threads is SUCH Hard Work!! |
04-08-2011, 09:49 PM | #6 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ilha Formosa
Posts: 2,068
|
double post
__________________
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill Last edited by GrayMouser : 04-08-2011 at 10:02 PM. |
04-08-2011, 10:01 PM | #7 |
Elf Lord
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ilha Formosa
Posts: 2,068
|
Then they'd have to calculate the value of the whole Shire and everything in it- there's probably enough information to get a reasonable estimate.
Find a comparable agriculturally fruitful but industrially undeveloped area of 18,ooo square miles....
__________________
Glendower: I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come when you do call for them? "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, but pigs treat us as equals."- Winston Churchill |
05-29-2012, 04:37 AM | #8 |
Hobbit
Join Date: May 2012
Location: China
Posts: 25
|
I want to know the exact answer
|
06-10-2012, 05:35 PM | #9 |
Master of Orchestration President Emeritus of Entmoot 2004-2008
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Lost in the Opera House
Posts: 9,328
|
The Forbes guy recently went back and re-assessed Smaug's wealth, calculating the mithril shirt, Arkenstone, and at least several other chambers of comparable wealth.
__________________
ACALEWIA- President of Entmoot hectorberlioz- Vice President of Entmoot Acaly und Hektor fur Presidants fur EntMut fur life! Join the discussion at Entmoot Election 2010. "Stupidissimo!"~Toscanini The Da CINDY Code The Epic Poem Of The Balrog of Entmoot: Here ~NEW! ~ Thinking of summer vacation? AboutNewJersey.com - NJ Travel & Tourism Guide |
06-11-2012, 08:13 PM | #10 |
of the House of Fëanor
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,150
|
Smaug is hella rich. Smaug is like the one percent's one percent. He makes Bill Gates look like a slumdog hundredaire.
__________________
Few people have the imagination for reality.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
06-12-2012, 02:38 AM | #11 |
Hobbit
Join Date: May 2012
Location: China
Posts: 25
|
That sounds funny
Last edited by Earniel : 09-21-2012 at 07:46 AM. Reason: advertising removed |
08-29-2012, 01:52 AM | #12 |
of the House of Fëanor
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 6,150
|
Smaug's wealth would shame the Apple enterprise, or the nouveau-riche Chinese, but was he happy? Did alll those treasures make Smaug's heart burst with love and joy and lightness? If not, then aLl the wealth in his world was worth less than the toilet paper he (god I hope) wiped his dirty post-poo bum with.
He had no freinds, no remaining kin/family, and every living thing freaked out when they saw him. No wealth could ever assuage such inside wounds. Team Smaug.
__________________
Few people have the imagination for reality.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
What if SMAUG had gotten The One Ring? | Valandil | The Hobbit (book) | 71 | 04-12-2015 08:50 PM |
Origins of Smaug | AndMorgothCame. | The Silmarillion | 40 | 10-14-2010 09:18 PM |
Return of TLA | Nazgûl Queen | RPG Forum | 574 | 04-09-2003 09:38 AM |
Did Thorin or Bard slay Smaug? | Lady_of_the_Golden_Wood | The Hobbit (book) | 12 | 03-15-2003 10:19 PM |
Could Smaug have destroyed Rivendell? | The Lady of Ithilien | Lord of the Rings Books | 18 | 12-18-2002 04:35 AM |