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It is heavily implied in the film that Gandalf sets the events of the Hobbit movies in motion because he wants Smaug destroyed before the inevitable beginning of the War of the Ring; if Smaug were to ally with Sauron, it would mean almost certain ruin for Middle-Earth, as the forces of Rohan and Gondor would not have been able to bring him down without suffering enormous losses. As The Hobbit novel is quite short and told from Bilbo's perspective, it reveals little about the true intentions of both Gandalf and Sauron (the latter only being mentioned a few times). However, the appendices of the Lord of the Rings novels and J.R.R. Tolkien's 'Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-Earth' (specifically a chapter called The Quest of Erebor) place the events of The Hobbit in a much wider context: they make very clear that Gandalf has been keeping track of Sauron's return and his search for the One Ring for many centuries. Gandalf is doing everything to prevent Sauron from rising to his full power or getting help from Smaug. This idea is presented much more explicitly in the Hobbit films, and reinforced in the extended version of Lo Hobbit - Un viaggio inaspettato (2012) when Gandalf meets with the White Council at Rivendell: he expresses his concern at the possibility of Smaug allying with the new darkness that Radagast had encountered, although Saruman dismisses this as nothing more than some human playing with black magic, rather than recognizing it as Sauron. He also presses the Dwarves to continue with their quest, even though waking the dragon may have very serious consequences.

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