The Dragon Smaugs Name Comes From the Same Root

There is a bit of word nurtery floating around the inner net that makes the claim that the anglo saxons used a form of this word, smaagon or smea to describe the biblical cane. This would be an especially interesting philological connection between galum and kaine. And if you've got a really good memory, again, i don't think we do, but somebody might know,. You might remember that back in episode 79, we read from tolkin's letter number 29, in which the professor wrote to the editor of the observer that the dragon smaugs name comes from the same root. He says, the dragon bears as name a pseudonym, the