Bartender Geek

In The Hobbit Smaug has precious things for the joy of acquisition and ownership. In Hambly's Dragonsbane, dragons have gold because it resonates to a frequency that soothes them, especially after they've had it for a while and moved it around, in a feng shui sort of way. I always really liked that. The "It's terribly comfortable, you know..." solution I used in T&C just came to me as I was writing it, without any conscious thinking about it at all.