Board Thread:Lore/@comment-25954624-20150404151445/@comment-26116279-20150404212600

Warlordalox2332 wrote: Thorin Stonehelm wrote: mithril is much harder than dragon scale in the books, in the books dragon hide roughly equaled steel Then why did all the arrows simply bounce of smaug's scales in the hobbit? (the book) it has to be quite poweful bilbo knew that none of the arrows would even dent Smaugs hide so he had to find a weakness.

because smaug was an exception

most dragons are weaker than smaug and by steel i mean the kind of steel in swords not arrows