Awesome! Smaug's dead... but is that a good thing or a bad thing? Think about it, a huge hoarde of treasure is waiting on the mountain but there's a lot of people who want it, got it first, or deserve some for compensation. Do you think it would've been better for everyone if Smaug was still alive and guarding the treasure? Explain. It's not like he's really ravaged too many towns for a while, some people even thought he was never really real.