It is about dragons.
It is about the rings.
It is about spiders.
How much shorter would the trilogy have been if Frodo had been digested in those caves.
And how much longer it would have been if it had turned into a spider-hobbit.
The trilogy would not have happened at all if Smaug had burned Bilbo at the first meeting.
It would be - as Sauron tries to take away the ring from the dragon) Here's what would be epic, not that byte with a walking tour!))