... director uses effectively transports the audience to Middle Earth as it assists in making the fantasy genre come alive. The opening scene involves the dragon Smaug attacking Lake Town and its defenseless town people. Dragons are mythical creatures so Jackson used CGI, or computer generated imaging, to bring ... of fantasy fiction in the last 30 years. She continues to explain that Smaug plays a classic role in The Hobbit being the traditional dragon whose destruction will bring a happy ending. When our hero hits Smaug with the arrow and the fire in his eyes are extinguished, the ... Th...

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