I merely wanted to gaze upon your magnificence.To see if you really were as great as the old tales say." But then as fear gripped Bilbo and he falsely claimed to be alone, Smaug revealed that he knew that Bilbo""s Dwarf friends had sent him "to do their dirty work" and that they had come to acquire gold: "They are drawn to treasure like flies to dead flesh.One day from his past (that he wouldn""t remember when he was a child) would be selected that he would have o give up." Crawford announced that the fan note needed to be thoroughly analyzed for prints, hair fibers, etc.Ned blurted out his own hidden greed: "I had wished you were gonna be loaded.""Matty" presented Ned with a wrapped gift package of a fedora hat - with a promise hat it would protect him from "it" (Ned had spoken about ""shit"" (not rain) that would come down on him, and now, she was prophetically referring o the crisis that would soon strike him down):From now on, whenitstarts coming down on you, I""ll be there to protect you.Another of the film""s three Oscar awards, the one for Best Original Story was given to Ian McLellan Hunter.