User blog comment:Thundrtri/Secret battle of Season 2: Smaug VS The Dragonborn/@comment-5465602-20130315035841

This fight's gonna be sick, but anyway, lets see what we got.

I'm giving my edge to Smaug. He's a lot older than the Dragonborn, and is one of, if not the absolute most, the powerful beings in Middle-Earth at the time. Much of Gandalf's reasoning for his assistance in the quest to kill Smaug is both loyalty to his friends the dwarves, and because Sauron, the ominous necromancer mentioned in the film, could recruit him to his cause, severely fucking up any hope of beating him.

Secondly, Smaug packs reliable attacks, and a foolproof defense. His attacks, unlike the Dragonborn's, don't all reset if he uses one of them (the shouts) or only be used so long before he must let them recharge (the spells). His major defense is that dragon's supposedly have only one major weakness, their soft, stab-worthy, very hot bellies. Smaug has been sleeping on a gold pile for quite a while, to the point where the gold formed a second layer of armor on his stomach.

Ultimately, the Dragonborn will not go down without a fight, but he will be beaten by the dreaded beast that is Smaug.