To me, Thranduil looked a little sad when he turned away at the start of the film, and that influenced this a lot.
Eh, I think dragons appearing kind of fits with the Silmaril's habit of bringing bad luck/doom/destruction/massive amounts of horrible death to anyone who so much as tries to possess one. The Appendices (and the film) seem to imply that it was Thror's ring that helped the gold attract the dragon, but there's no reason why one of the Silmarils wouldn't do the same. Certainly, since it was at the top of the hoard-pile in the book, Smaug seemed to like it.
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To me, Thranduil looked a little sad when he turned away at the start of the film, and that influenced this a lot.
Eh, I think dragons appearing kind of fits with the Silmaril's habit of bringing bad luck/doom/destruction/massive amounts of horrible death to anyone who so much as tries to possess one. The Appendices (and the film) seem to imply that it was Thror's ring that helped the gold attract the dragon, but there's no reason why one of the Silmarils wouldn't do the same. Certainly, since it was at the top of the hoard-pile in the book, Smaug seemed to like it.