• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    The elvish council spent centuries debating why Sauron would do this, but the truth was he was interested in the tax deductions and a detailed income splitting scheme that harvested losses from Dwarven commodity futures to offset Mordor’s growing volcano habit.

    Smaug was only ever in the Lonely Mountain to fully calculate wealth Sauron had sheltered there.