The Hobbit: Does Smaug Covet The Arkenstone Because He Knows The Dwarves Desire It Most?
In Tolkien’s Middle Earth, the Arkenstone is a rare and precious jewel found deep in the heart of the Lonely Mountain, centuries before Bilbo’s quest inThe Hobbittakes place. It’s never explicitly explained within Tolkien’s books or the movie adaptations what the stone is made of. Readers know only that it is white in color, with glints of the rainbow glittering throughout its core. The Arkenstone shone so brightly that it seemed to steal the light out of the room and turn it into something even more iridescent and radiant....