Peter König's Artwork for SMAUG!

Get rid of the horns, and then they wouldn't be too similar.

The end of the film suggests Smaug has a long(ish) snout.
 
The cinemas in my country cancelled The Hobbit at the last minute (delayed it to be more exact)

So, the last shot I read is of Smaug... Do they show the whole face, or just a part of the head and the eye? And also, is the eye in resemblance to Sauron's eye?
 
What do you guys think?

Can this work?
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The brutish look, the triceratops horn and the drooping lower lip don't do justice to the cunning and sly dragon. The finished product will be more streamlined and dignified, I hope.
 
It's obviously not what one would expect but it kinda works - most dragon designs are so elegant and lithe that it's hard to really think of them as evil. This is a dragon one could hate.
 
You see his nostril, which looks like it's on a snout. His eye is nothing like Sauron's eye (apart from being an eye).
 
And does to camera move from the Carrock across the horizon to the Lonely Mountain, and enters through a crack and into the chamber? Or...
How does that play out???
 
because Smaug should look like the Dragon of dragons... and that thing looks like some less common, lesser beast from some alternate universe or planet.
 
I'll only say if you really, really, really want to know!

How come the film was delayed? Do you know when it will be released?

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And does to camera move from the Carrock across the horizon to the Lonely Mountain, and enters through a crack and into the chamber? Or...
How does that play out???
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The trush flies past the Company and lands indeterminate time later at the hidden door, and bangs a snail on the stone. The banging sound echoes down the dark halls until it reaches the mound (more like a giant pit) of treasure. A nostril pops out from a pile of gold, followed by a closed eye nearby. The eye opens up, the end.

That design incidentally can't be correct. There are no horns sticking out of the gold in the scene, and the tone of Smaug's scales is not red, but very darkly tinted gold.
 
It was really a bummer... Got so irritated...

Though I am leaving for London in January and am planning to see it there...
 
It would totally work, however, I'm willing to bet this will be the final design, with some changes.

http://www.wetanz.com/assets/Uploads/JohnHoweSmaugalrg2.jpg

PJ would go for the classic, unlike Del Toro.

You must remember the final visions for the Balrog and for the winged beasts came straight from John Howe's painting, plus ideas from the team for the textures, the way it moves, etc. Alan Lee's Smaug is also very wyrm like.

So they won't be pulling a dinossaur looking dragon, he'll look relatable. Remember he must talk, so his face should display intelligence and mood.
 
that if the thrush thumping a snail against the rock will cause such a racket in Smaug's chamber, he'll be able to hear the dwarves coming from miles away.
 
Pulling Grond is Rotk.

Pretty cool, definitely different. I get the feeling that Jackson's Smauch is going to look much more like an archetypical dragon, with a long skinny snout. I fee like I read something somewhere (vague, I know, sorry!) and Jackson was talking about how there's not many ways you can already approve upon "dragons" as they've been established in Western culture, leading me to think he's not taking any huge creative leaps with the design. Which is fine, because I think a "normal" dragon fits in perfectly well with Tolkien's descriptions and Jackson's established universe.
 
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