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Thorin Oakenshield (Thorin II) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit. Thorin is the leader of the Company of Dwarves who aim to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from Smaug the dragon. He is the son of Thráin II, grandson of Thrór, and becomes King of Durin's Folk during their exile from Erebor.
Thorin played the harp. Fili and Kili, sons of Thorin's sister. [T 6] The youngest dwarves in the Company and therefore useful for their keen eyesight. They wore blue hoods and grew yellow beards. Four of Thorin's third-cousins – two pairs of brothers: Balin. Older brother to Dwalin. He wore a red hood and had a white beard.
Armitage was born in Leicester, England, the younger son of Margaret, a secretary, and John Armitage, an engineer.He has an older brother named Christopher. [10]He attended Huncote Community Primary School in Huncote, Blaby District, Leicestershire, [citation needed] and began secondary school at the local comprehensive school, Brockington College in Enderby.
The History of The Hobbit is a two-volume study of J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 children's ... about names"; for instance, Thorin's grandfather, ... Thorin Oakenshield ...
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When writing The Hobbit in the early 1930s Tolkien gave the name Gandalf to the leader of the Dwarves, the character later called Thorin Oakenshield. The name is taken from the same source as all the other Dwarf names (save Balin) in The Hobbit: the "Catalogue of Dwarves" in the Völuspá. [7]
“Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings under the mountain and the last of its lineage,” Slimak told the website IFLScience. “Thorin the Neanderthal is also an end of lineage.
Two children, ages 9 and 4, were allegedly abducted after the shooting, but were found safe the next day, following a joint operation between the prosecutor’s office, Ann Arbor police, Michigan ...