Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26335978-20160106162844/@comment-27587913-20160120043745

Both Dale and esgorath were rebuilt within 40 years

also Esgorath left sunken ruins in the book and very little in the movie: a paraphrase from the hobbit 'none would ever attempt to dive to the ruins to retreive the gold' this is in refferance to the gold on smaug when he died and chrased down on top of the already burning lake town sinking what was left