Goodness. I shall give in to my more table-making nature this morning!
| Slayers | Slain |
| Time | King |
| Smaug | Bombur and Bofur (hypothetically) |
| Bard | Smaug |
| Bard | Smaug |
| Bard | Smaug (“Worm of Dread,” I like that!) |
| Bard | Smaug |
| Smaug | dwarves (hypothetical) |
| Inhabitants of the Wood-elves’ realm | goblins (and wolves, if we are to follow the antecedents closely) |
• 5.055 Slays king, ruins town,
• 12.025 They will be slain,
• 14.029 when the enemy was slain.
• 14.029 I am the slayer of the dragon!’
• 15.042 The Worm of Dread is slain
• 15.048 and by my hand was the dragon slain
• 15.051 and us slain.’
• 18.024 were there slain,
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