Dragon sickness, also known as Gold sickness, is a type of sickness that affects Humans, Dwarves, Elves, and Dragons. However, Hobbits such as Bilbo Baggins weren't affected due to their value of home and family.
History[]
An Unexpected Journey[]
The Desolation of Smaug[]
The Battle of the Five Armies[]
Known victims[]
- Smaug -The last of the Dragons of Middle Earth; his greed for the Dwarves' gold led him to destroy the town of Dale and the Dwarf kingdom under the Lonely Mountain; years later although he told Bilbo Baggins he would not part with a single coin from the treasure trove he had stolen, he laughingly admitted he would need wish to see Thorin Oakenshield with the Arkenstone just to see Oakenshield waste away from Dragon sickness.
- 'The Master; greedy leader of Lake Town in the book "The Hobbit" he dies in the wastes hoarding his share of gold; in the movie version while trying to escape the burning town with his stolen treasure-he and his ill gotten loot are sent to the bottom of the Lake when the dead body of Smaug falls on top of him.
- Thror - King of Durin's Folk; gained dragon sickness after hoarding the gold his miners found. Prized the Arkenstone and often spent his days in his gold hoard for hours.
- Thorin Oakenshield - Suffered from the sickness moments before the Destruction of Lake-town During the gold sickness, he trusted no one apart from Bilbo Baggins. After Oakenshield started to display more of Smaug's treacherous and greedy nature, his obsession went out of control. Bilbo gave the Arkenstone to the Elvenking Thranduil and to Bard the Bowman as a bargaining chip. The two men bartered with Thorin; the White Gems of Lasgalen and the portion of the Dwarf treasure for what Thorin had promised to Lake Town. However, he is only restored when after he sees visions of Smaug swimming under the gold hoard and then the hoard swallowing him as well as the voices of his friends and family.