Day 9 of this present darkness, when we ponder where all the world’s wealth went…

The glow of Smaug! ...a vast red-golden dragon, fast asleep...

Beneath him, under all his limbs and his huge coiled tail, and about him on all sides stretching away across the unseen floors, lay countless piles of precious things, gold wrought and unwrought, gems and jewels, and silver red-stained in the ruddy light.

Smaug lay, with wings folded like an immeasurable bat... his... long pale belly crusted with gems and fragments of gold from his long lying on his costly bed.

--Tolkien, The Hobbit