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[Hobbit/LoTR] If Smaug had killed Bilbo, would he have destroyed Sauron?

It is said that dragon fire is one of the only things that can destroy rings of power. If Smaug had managed to incinerate Bilbo, and the ring would probably have been in his pocket at the time, would he have unknowingly destroyed the Ring and Sauron? 

Would Middle-Earth have been a better place if Bilbo was killed?
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Dragon-fire was hot enough to melt the lesser Rings, but not the One. To quote Gandalf:

> It has been said that dragon-fire could melt and consume the Rings of Power, but there is not now any dragon left on earth in which the old fire is hot enough; nor was there ever any dragon, not even Ancalagon the Black, who could have harmed the One Ring, the Ruling Ring, for that was made by Sauron himself.