Otaku-sempai
Immortal
Feb 2 2013, 8:35pm
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Ding, dong, the dragon's dead!
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So why didn't he help the dwarves? After all that was after Smaug had attacked them, he didn't even try to offer humanitarian aid, he just turned his party elk around and took off. :) Remember, these are two, separate incidents under very different circumstances. After Smaug attacked Erebor and Dale, the dragon was still alive and an active threat. The Elvenking determined that the risk to his people was too great. In addition, he had little love (much less trust) for dwarves. Honestly, the whole scene makes no sense to anyone familiar with the book. Lonely Mountain is several day's march from Thranduil's realm. His forces should not have been able to arrive at the site until long after the dwarves had fled. When King Thranduil aided the Lake-men, he knew that Smaug was dead. Believing Thorin and his companions to be dead as well, there was no significant risk to helping the Lake-town survivors.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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