Annie and Ash looked at the pages from the book hat she had brought.Two passages revealed that in 1300 AD, it was prophesied that a "hero from the sky" would come and destroy the Evil" - a foretelling of the film""s ending.This successful adaptation of Chandler""s 1939 novel was from his first Philip Marlowe novel.[Chandler took segments of two of his own, previously-published stories that appeared inBlack Maskmagazine: "Killer in the Rain," and "The Curtain.At the forges, Thorin insulted Smaug to anger him ("You have grown slow and fat in your dotage - slug!"), in an attempt o cause his breath to ignite the furnaces and melt the gold inside." He accidentally topples his daughter Joyce""s (Linda Bennett) newly-constructed play castle of wooden blocks (her fantasy of a police station) and upsets her.