В дополнение

ru_latinina — 20.12.2013 Недавно посмотрел первые две части "Хоббита", который как раз сейчас идет в прокате. И вот какой сюжет меня заинтересовал:

Гномы под горой очень разбогатели на добыче золота и драгоценных камней, на изготовлении украшений из них и на торговле ими. Но их богатства привлекли дракона, который пожег и пожрал гномов, захватил подземелье и все его богатства.

Ни на что не напоминает? Просто таки один из любимых нарративов ЮЛ.

Видеоцитаты (какие уж нашел): раз, два и три.

А вот из книжки цитата:

"O very well", said Thorin. "Long ago in my grandfather Throrís time our family was driven out of the far North, and came back with all their wealth and their tools to this Mountain on the map. It had been discovered by my far ancestor, Thrain the Old, but now they mined and they tunnelled and they made huger halls and greater workshops - and in addition I believe they found a good deal of gold and a great many jewels too. Anyway they grew immensely rich and famous, and my grandfather was King under the Mountain again and treated with great reverence by the mortal men, who lived to the South, and were gradually spreading up the Running River as far as the valley overshadowed by the Mountain. They built the merry town of Dale there in those days. Kings used to send for our smiths, and reward even the least skilful most richly. Fathers would beg us to take their sons as apprentices, and pay us handsomely, especially in food-supplies, which we never bothered to grow or find for ourselves. Altogether those were good days for us, and the poorest of us had money to spend and to lend, and leisure to make beautiful things just for the. fun of it, not to speak of the most marvellous and magical toys, the like of which is not to be found in the world now-a-days. So my grandfatherís halls became full of armour and jewels and carvings and cups, and the toy-market of Dale was the wonder of the North.

Undoubtedly that was what brought the dragon. Dragons steal gold and jewels, you know, from men and elves and dwarves, wherever they can find them; and they guard their plunder as long as they live (which is practically forever, unless they are killed), and never enjoy a brass ring of it. Indeed they hardly know a good bit of work from a bad, though they usually have a good notion of the current market value; and they canít make a thing for themselves, not even mend a little loose scale of their armour. There were lots of dragons in the North in those days, and gold was probably getting scarce up there, with the dwarves flying south or getting killed, and all the general waste and destruction that dragons make going from bad to worse. There was a most specially greedy, strong and wicked worm called Smaug. One day he flew up into the air and came south. The first we heard of it was a noise like a hurricane coming from the North, and the pine-trees on the Mountain creaking and cracking in the wind..."

На сколько я помню, в фильме несколько раз упоминается, что именно безрассудная жадность погубила королевство гномов, что их несметные богатства не могли не навлечь на них беду.

Как и в любом настоящем обществе до внедрения продвинутого огнестрельного оружия, дело могло кончиться только бедой. Технологии добычи и обработки золота у гномов были продвинутые и уже вполне индустриальные, а вот драться они продолжали топорами и секирами. Гномьего самострела и "черных гномьих стрел" тоже для противостояния дракону оказалось недостаточно. Вот если бы у них было мощное ПВО с комулятивными снарядами и реактивная авиация, - тогда другое дело. В общем, неправильное направление гномы выбрали для развития и оттачивания своего мастерства.

UPD: Ну или другой выход для гномов был: Добывать богатства в Средиземье, но переводить их на Запад, за Великое Море в Валинор. Только с местным Аманским руководством пришлось бы договариваться (уж не знаю на каком уровне: то ли с бессмертными эльфами, то ли с самим Элюватором).

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