 John Garth, writing in "The Guardian", notes the similarity between Smaug's death from Bard's last arrow and the death of Megissogwon in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1855 poem "The Song of Hiawatha".Megissogwon was the spirit of wealth, protected by an armoured shirt of wampum beads.Hiawatha shoots in vain, until he has only three arrows left.