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You haven’t accounted for the increased price of gold since publication.
The Hobbit came out in 1937. The US Gold Reserve Act of 1934 raised and fixed the price of gold at $35/oz. Today, the same ounce ≈ $1286, a 36x increase. Perhaps not a literal mountain, at least not by our (Hu)Man standards, but significantly more than your initial estimation.
Eseman
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Just under 1000 tonnes of gold at today's price. I'd hardly call that a mountain, it's about the amount held in reserve by the Swiss central bank, amounting to 51m³ of solid gold. The room I'm sitting it has a volume of almost exactly 51m³