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Thorin Oakenshield: Dwarf noble who led the company of dwarves that retook Erebor from the dragon Smaug in The Hobbit. Slain during the Battle of the Five Armies. Tom Bombadil: A mysterious figure who aided the hobbits during their departure from the Shire in The Fellowship of the Ring. Treebeard: Leader of the Ents in The Lord of the Rings.
A dwarf, in the Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) fantasy roleplaying game, is a humanoid race, one of the primary races available for player characters.The idea for the D&D dwarf comes from the dwarves of European mythologies and J. R. R. Tolkien's novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–1955), and has been used in D&D and its predecessor Chainmail since the early 1970s.
The roles of women in The Lord of the Rings have often been assessed as insignificant, or important only in relation to male characters in a story about men for boys. Meanwhile, other commentators have noted the empowerment of the three major women characters, Galadriel , Éowyn , and Arwen , and provided in-depth analysis of their roles within ...
[T 1] However, according to the family tree published in Appendix C of The Lord of the Rings, where his name is Bandobras and "Bullroarer" is a nickname, he was the Old Took's grand-uncle, and therefore Bilbo's great great grand-uncle. [T 3] [4] The name Bandobras appears in the abandoned 1960 revision of The Hobbit. [5] (mentioned only)
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Amazon PrimeRest easy, Lord of the Rings fans, because our long, hair-raising nightmare is over: After months of uncertainty, everyone can ...
The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia considers Tolkien's use of the adjective "thrawn", noting its similarity with Þráinn, a noun meaning "obstinate person", and a name found in the Norse list of Dwarf-names, the Dvergatal in the Völuspá. Tolkien took it for the name, Thráin, of two of Thorin Oakenshield's ancestors.
The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is an American fantasy television series developed by J. D. Payne and Patrick McKay for the streaming service Amazon Prime Video. It is based on J. R. R. Tolkien's history of Middle-earth, primarily material from the appendices of the novel The Lord of the Rings (1954–55).
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