{"id":55346,"date":"2012-04-23T21:09:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/?p=55346"},"modified":"2012-04-23T21:15:26","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T02:15:26","slug":"how-much-is-a-dragon-worth-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/04\/23\/55346-how-much-is-a-dragon-worth-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much is a Dragon Worth &#8211; Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2012\/01\/23\/52827-happy-chinese-new-year-its-the-year-of-smaug-err-the-dragon\/smaug-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-53021\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-53021 no-lazyload\" title=\"Smaug\" src=\"http:\/\/www-images.theonering.org\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Smaug-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Smaug-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Smaug.jpg 389w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Just how much was Smaug&#8217;s stolen hoard worth? Tolkien fans certainly seem to think they know. So much so that Forbes had to revise their original estimate of $8.6 billion due to enthusiastic input from those very fans:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Taking into account a variety of factors including the estimated length of a dragon (64 feet), how many scales he has on his belly (822), the percentage of air in the treasure mound (30%) and the price of gold, silver and diamonds I estimated the ancient wyrm to be worth $8.6 billion. The Internet disagreed&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Follow the &#8220;Read More&#8221; link to read this hugely entertaining account of how they recalculated Smaug&#8217;s worth based on fan input, and what the final result was. Then follow the link in the article to find out how much the other &#8220;Fictional 15&#8221; characters are worth, including characters such as Tony Stark, Bruce Wayne and Tywin Lannister from Game of Thrones.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/michaelnoer\/2012\/04\/23\/how-much-is-a-dragon-worth-revisited\/\"><strong>Read More ..<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how much was Smaug&#8217;s stolen hoard worth? Tolkien fans certainly seem to think they know. So much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[499,7,153,148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbit-movie-characters","category-hobbit-book","category-tolkien-life","category-hobbit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-eoG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55346"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55353,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55346\/revisions\/55353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}