A follow-up on this. =X

superior preference...

Turns out that dragons are real and they come from South Africa (Latin name ‘Smaug gigantaeus’)

SMAUG

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? THEY USED SMAUG IN THE SCIENTFIC NAME??!

this is just my hypothesis but the Latin name probably came before lord of the rings

No they def named it after smaug the dragon wtf r u talking about

ok but actually

Museum Researcher Names Lizard Genus After Tolkien’s Dragon Smaug

i take it back they actually did that

A one ton Eagle model from The Hobbit trilogy that was hung on the ceiling in a new zealand airport fell down on a noodle canteen after an earthquake hit.

that sentence was a roller coaster ride from start to finish