The Hobbit: 10 Dumbest Character Decisions

How do you even begin to rid the world of a dragon shut up inside a mountain? Though it was Thorin who lost his home, it was Gandalf who came up with the plan to take a ‘burglar’ from the Shire to steal the Arkenstone from under Smaug’s nose, unite the Dwarf armies, and take back the mountain.

Ultimately, the Dwarves did retake Erebor, but in reality it was not thanks to Gandalf in any way. All the grey wizard did was risk everyone’s lives involved, including the innocent men, women, and children of Lake Town. While trying to take the Arkenstone, Bilbo, who was absolutely no burglar at all, woke Smaug who preceded to burn the town and its people to ash.

If it weren’t for a very lucky Bard with a very lucky black arrow, the enraged dragon would have killed everyone in Lake Town before returning to Erebor, killing thirteen Dwarves, and then going on to do who knows what throughout Middle-earth.

Even in the ridiculously unlikely event that Bilbo was able to get the Arkenstone to Thorin without seeing everyone engulfed in flame, reuniting the seven Dwarf armies under Thorin’s banner, no amount of Dwarvish axes could bring a dragon down before everyone was burned to a crisp.