Editing Smaug (section)

=== Animated films ===

[[File:Smaug The Hobbit 1977.jpg|thumb|upright|A somewhat cat-like Smaug as seen in the 1977 [[Rankin/Bass]] [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|animated film of ''The Hobbit'']]<ref name="Gilkeson 2018"/> ]]

A dragon named 'Slag' features in [[Gene Deitch]]'s brief [[The Hobbit (1967 film)|1967 animated film]].<ref name="companion">{{cite book |last=Lee |first=Stuart D. |author-link=Stuart D. Lee |title=A Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien |date=2020 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=9781119656029 |pages=518–519 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vsPXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA518}}</ref> 

[[Francis de Wolff]] voiced the red dragon in the long-lost [[The Hobbit (radio series)|1968 BBC radio dramatization]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/details/TheHobbit1Of8AnUnexpectedParty |title=''The Hobbit'' Full Cast Radio Drama |website=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=24 February 2020}}</ref> 

[[Richard Boone]] voiced Smaug in the 1977 [[The Hobbit (1977 film)|animated film]] by [[Rankin/Bass]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Harvey |first=Ryan |title=The Hobbit: The 1977 Animated Television Movie |url=https://www.blackgate.com/2011/03/29/the-hobbit-the-1977-animated-television-movie/ |publisher=[[Black Gate (magazine)|Black Gate]] |access-date=26 February 2020 |date=29 March 2011 |archive-date=26 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226222845/https://www.blackgate.com/2011/03/29/the-hobbit-the-1977-animated-television-movie/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Austin Gilkeson calls the film's depiction of Smaug "distinctly feline" as he has cat-like eyes and whiskers "and a lush mane".<ref name="Gilkeson 2018"/> Gilkeson comments that the result does not resemble [[European dragon|Western dragons]], but that it works well, not least because Smaug's nature as an "intelligent, deadly, greedy" and lazy predator is in his view "very cat-like".<ref name="Gilkeson 2018">{{cite web |last=Gilkeson |first=Austin |title=Rankin/Bass's The Hobbit Showed Us the Future of Pop Culture |url=https://www.tor.com/2018/12/21/rankin-basss-the-hobbit-showed-us-the-future-of-pop-culture/ |website=[[Tor.com]] |access-date=26 October 2023 |date=21 December 2018 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026140259/https://www.tor.com/2018/12/21/rankin-basss-the-hobbit-showed-us-the-future-of-pop-culture/ |url-status=live }}</ref>