Editing Smaug (section)

== Illustrations ==

Tolkien created numerous pencil sketches and two pieces of more detailed artwork portraying Smaug. The latter were a detailed ink and watercolour labelled ''Conversation with Smaug'' and a rough coloured pencil and ink sketch entitled ''Death of Smaug''.<ref name="BBC Oxford 2018">{{cite news |title=JRR Tolkien artwork on display for first time |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-44306276 |work=BBC |date=1 June 2018 |access-date=24 February 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224143540/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-44306276 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-first=Wayne G. |editor1-last=Hammond |editor1-link=Wayne G. Hammond |editor2-first=Christina |editor2-last=Scull |editor2-link=Christina Scull |title=The art of the Hobbit |publisher=[[HarperCollins]]  |date=2011 |isbn=978-0-00744-081-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=In Focus: The hand-drawn maps from which JRR Tolkien launched Middle-earth |url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/focus-hand-drawn-maps-jrr-tolkien-launched-middle-earth-181987 |work=[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]] |date=10 August 2018 |access-date=24 February 2020 |archive-date=24 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200224144107/https://www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-about/focus-hand-drawn-maps-jrr-tolkien-launched-middle-earth-181987 |url-status=live }}</ref> While neither of these appeared in the original printing of ''The Hobbit'' due to cost constraints, both have been included in subsequent editions, particularly ''Conversation with Smaug''. ''Death of Smaug'' was used for the cover of a UK paperback edition of ''The Hobbit''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Hobbit or There and Back Again by Tolkien, J.R.R. (cover art by J.R.R. Tolkien) |url=https://biblio.co.uk/9780048230706 |publisher=Biblio |access-date=27 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200227085001/https://biblio.co.uk/book/hobbit-back-again-tolkien-jrr-cover/d/653681119 |archive-date=27 February 2020 |quote=The Hobbit or There and Back Again by Tolkien, J.R.R. (cover art by J.R.R. Tolkien) London: [[George Allen & Unwin]] 1975 Third Edition (Paperback)... 1975... Cover illustration of Death of Smaug |url-status=live}}</ref>