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Durin VII The Dwarves are described as "the most redoubtable warriors of all the Speaking Peoples" [ T 4 ] – a warlike race who fought fiercely against their enemies, including other Dwarves. [ T 5 ] Highly skilled in the making of weapons and armour , their main weapon was the battle axe , but they also used bows , swords , shields and ...
In Norse mythology, Durinn (Old Norse: ; or Durin) is a dwarf according to stanza 10 of the poem Völuspá from the Poetic Edda, and repeated in Gylfaginning from the Prose Edda. He was the second created after the first and foremost dwarf Mótsognir .
In the fictional history of the world by J. R. R. Tolkien, Moria, also named Khazad-dûm, is an ancient subterranean complex in Middle-earth, comprising a vast labyrinthine network of tunnels, chambers, mines, and halls under the Misty Mountains, with doors on both the western and the eastern sides of the mountain range.
"Doomed to Die" is the seventh episode of the second season of the American fantasy television series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The series 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).
The Balrog killed Durin VI, the Dwarf-King of Khazad-dûm, whereafter it was called Durin's Bane by the Dwarves. [T 32] [T 34] Avarice, principally for mithril, drove the dwarves to go too deep and awaken the Balrog. [2] The Dwarves attempted to fight the Balrog, but its power was far too great for them.
He had been 7 years old while Thorin had been 24 on that day, [T 1] making him the second-eldest of the Dwarves in the company. [ T 2 ] Tolkien describes Balin as "their look-out man": he spotted Bilbo approaching the Green Dragon Inn at Bywater , [ T 2 ] saw the trolls ' fire in the Trollshaws, [ T 3 ] and was the first to see the elves in ...
The Children of Húrin is an epic fantasy novel which forms the completion of a tale by J. R. R. Tolkien.He wrote the original version of the story in the late 1910s, revising it several times later, but did not complete it before his death in 1973.