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Thindithron the Great wrote: 00Fez wrote: Thindithron the Great wrote: Thorin just liked treasure and treated it all as his own. (Which it was, pretty much.) There's no 'dragon sickness'- just a love of the material.

Who could possibly stuff a whole block into their face? Be realistic.

The only quote we have from the Hobbit on Smaug's corpse said they could see his bones from the surface- no scales. I presume they rotted away. It is mentioned that after Bard gave him much dragon gold, the old master of Lake-town fled and went mad from dragon sickness. I can't be bothered atm to get a quote for it but Itd there I tell you! "From that treasure Bard sent much gold to the Master of Lake-town; and he rewarded his followers and friends freely."

Nothing in there about dragon-sickness. Well actually....

"...The old Master had come to a bad end. Bard had given him much gold for the help of the Lake-people, but being of the kind that easily catches such disease he fell under the dragon-sickness, and took most of the gold and fled with it, and died of starvation in the Waste, deserted by his companions"

This quote being located when Balin is telling Bilbo of what life is like in Erebor, once Bilbo is home, near the end of the book.