User blog comment:Thundrtri/Secret battle of Season 2: Smaug VS The Dragonborn/@comment-41.137.59.87-20130729003914

Smaug has been alive for hundreds of years, and is much more devious than any human being ever could be. It was his arrogance that killed him, not lack of anything else. Remember, this is a being created at the hands of a semi-divine figure (Melkor), who was related to dragons such as Glaurung (Silmarillion) who easily overcame some of the greatest lords and cities of the eldar, who are by far superior to any human, especially some skraeling from the frigid north. Yes the dragonborn has his powers, but again this is a dragon which singlehandedly destroyed the most powerful dwarven kingdom in Middle Earth at the time, and it is important to remember that these dwarves were a people who had been fighting and attempting to kill dragons for generations in their halls in the Grey Mountains. If something can scare Gandalf enough to mount an expedition to kill, my money is on the fact that this dragon is a much harder nut to crack than those from the skyrim world (who are also half Smaug's size)