Treasure

Dragons, Trolls, Men, Orcs, and Dwarves of Middle-earth all had penchants for accumulating treasure. In all likeliness, the items procured from plundering would be taken and hidden in holds and hidden vaults. Glaurung's hoard in Nargothrond, Smaug's lair in the Lonely Mountain, Moria, and the troll-den mentioned in The Hobbit, in which was found the Elven swords Glamdring and Orcrist, would all serve as illustrations of this.