What happened to the dwarves after The Hobbit?

What

happened

to the

dwarves

in The Hobbit after The Hobbit? Let's take a look Hello everyone, I'm Robert. Welcome to Deep Geek. On this channel we cover the best in fantasy books and television shows. The Lord of the rings. Song of ice and fire. Witcher and much more, if you like the sound of it, there is a subscribe button at the bottom right of the screen in The Hobbit. 13

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plus Bilbo and Gandalf recaptured Erebor, the Lonely Mountain, from Smaug. This was a great victory for the Dwarven Nation as a whole. For centuries they had been forced to flee before the forces of the evil balrog and dragon, but now they had finally reclaimed one of their homelands.

Putting aside all the other things that

happened

in that story, this was a huge and unlikely victory for the dwarfs for a whole year. The nation had been driven from the Lonely Mountain by Smaug, now only 13 of them plus Bilbo of course had taken it back. Those 13 dwarves were soon supplemented by many more from the dine community in the Iron Hills and the population and economy of Erebor increased, our attention may remain on Bilbo and his return to the Shire, but great things were happening around Erebor. off-camera, although they survived the quest for Erebor when our Legends Among the Dwarves, but

what

happened to them after The Hobbit, well, let's start with the dwarves whose fate we learn in The Hobbit.

Thorin and spoilers here obviously Thorin dies in the Battle of the Five Armies. Things were not looking good until Thorin, who had been holed up on the Lonely Mountain, went into action with the other dwarves armed and armored with the best the Erebor Armory had to provide. he crashed into the orc army briefly changing the tide of battle Thorin led the attack but was shot down Philly and Kylie Thorin's nephews stood over his dying body defending him to the last. This act of heroism certainly led to Philly and Killy's mother being one of them. Of the few female dwarf names we know, this was their mother and she clearly raised them well, but Philly and Kylie died tragically in that action and with them and Thorin's death, Thorin's father's line ended, so the dying ironfoot inherited the rule of the Loners.

Mountain for a few decades, the community of Erebor prospered, they built positive relationships with the elves of North Markwood and particularly the humans of Lake Town, in short, Dale was rebuilt, restored and prosperity abounded, so 10 of the original dwarves They survived and presumably prospered in Erebor, but

what

does Tolkien tell us about what they really did after that? Well, let's start with Balin about half a century after the liberation of Erebor. Berlin led a small group of dwarves to try to retake Kazadum and as we saw in The Fellowship of the Ring, this was ultimately unsuccessful, in fact it ended in tragedy, the complete elimination of the dwarves.

We probably shouldn't be too hard on this quest since they managed to take control of much of Morya for several years, but we would still learn about Balin's fate in The Lord of the Rings after being declared Lord of Morya went to see the mirror mirror a spiritually important place for dwarves on the outskirts of the eastern Dord of Kazadum and was shot by an orc. I made a video about everything that happened next. You're interested in that, but his was the grave over which Gimli wept when the community passed through Moria years later. Gimli was a distant cousin of Berlin and will have known him in his youth, so it was a personal loss as well as worrying about the dwarves reclaiming their homeland more generally, two of the other dwarves we know had gone with Balin.

This wasn't just a personal mission, it was a serious attempt to retake Kasadum Iron was one of Gimli's two uncles when Balin was killed. Ayin realized that the game was over and he led a group of dwarves west to see if they could leave through the west gate. They could not. He was locked by The Watcher in the water, that tentacle creature that the community found. Outside morya. The Watcher in the water killed Oyen Ori. He was also part of the group and was in charge of recording the last moments of the colony listening to the drums in the depths and waiting for the Orcs to attack in the hope that perhaps someone would find that record and learn what Tolkien does not know. insist on it, but Gimli recognizes his big, bold handwriting in the book before it is finished, which is how he found out about his death, so 13 dwarves in the original mission, three die in the Battle of the Five Armies and three more in the missions that must be taken up, he has a fatality that leaves seven dwallin balin's brother was actually quite old by dwarven standards in The Hobbit at 169 years old, only Thorin and Balin were older, but he seems to have been quite robust , survived the Battle of the Five Armies and was still present at the time of the events of Lord of the Rings, in fact, Tolkien tells us that he survived that too, if he fought in the epic Battle of Dale that took place while his focus in the story was on Gondor and Morya, we don't know, but Tolkien does.

Tell us that he lived until the 91st year of the fourth age at the ripe old age of 340 years. For reference, most dwarves lived to be about 250 years old and Christopher Tolkien even later speculated that perhaps this was a typo by his father, but that's true. or not, dwalin clearly had a good and long life, we also know a little about what happened to owen's brother and gimli's father in the lead up to the war of the ring. The dwarves of Erebor were worried about a couple of things, first Balin, who had been writing home regularly since Moria had stopped writing everything had gone silent second Sauron had sent them an emissary out of nowhere seeking a ring of power and offering them the return of the remaining rings of power that the Dwarven Lords had clearly had something was Up and Glowing was sent along with his son Gimli and a few others to travel to Rivendell to share his news and see if Elwand had heard anything about the Mission of Barlin, given what was happening in the world, this was a huge responsibility, so clearly Glorian was highly respected.

In the dinner court he met Bilbo again and Frodo sitting next to him at the feast and giving him the news of Erebor and its surroundings. It was his son Gimli, of course, who joined the community and distinguished himself so well that presumably he himself returned in glory. Erebor to tell Dyin what he had learned, which would have helped him in preparations for the coming battle with the Eastlings and presumably Gimli at some point returned to tell him what had happened to his brother Oin Glowing, who died a few years later. , at the age of 253 years. noble life perhaps a slightly less noble life if perhaps a happier one was led by a bomber, you will remember him from The Hobbit happily eating everything that was put in front of him, which brings us to the slightly less heroic aspect that glorian relates 60 years later The bomber

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was so fat that he couldn't move from his sofa to his chair at the table and it took six young dwarfs to lift him, so we have the finale for Pfeiffer BofA Dori and Nori gloine says to Frodo at the Council of Elrond says they are all alive and well in Edible, but that's all we know and Tolkien doesn't tell us more anywhere else, although we can probably guess that they each received their 14th share of the spoils from the Erebor quest, which It is 1 14 of the Dragon. horde just pause for a moment to remember that that smile lay on a literal hill of gold, gems and other treasures.

Bilbo struggles to climb it, it is so great that we can confidently say that each of them entered their Middle Ages not only comfortably rich, but also some. Of the richest people in the world for at least 60 years lived a comfortable and simple life, they apparently chose not to volunteer to go on more missions like those in Berlin or Gloin, however, they were still young enough at the time of The Ring War is expected to take part in the battle that defended Erebor from the attack of the Easterlings, which was a hard-fought battle, three days of hand-to-hand fighting and then a siege.

Many dwarves died, including King Dyne. I think we can safely assume that Bomba didn't do it. they participated, but the others probably did and perhaps one or more died defending the Homeland they had first fought so hard for. Unfortunately, we simply don't know more than a few highlights. Tolkien is content to let the dwarves slowly fade from view in In the Fourth Age, perhaps we should too. The search for what is edible was a monumental moment in the history of the dwarves that changed the course of their fortunes. In their old age, the 10 surviving dwarves prospered greatly and became rich beyond their wildest dreams, but it appears that has not been the case. fundamentally changed either of them Berlin still risked everything in search of a Homeland he had never known gloin was fiercely loyal to his family the bomber simply kept eating and Pfeiffer both Dorian Nori seemed to have lived happy lives away from the headlines the search for edible food It was never fundamentally about the pursuit of gold and riches and becoming incredibly rich didn't fundamentally change any of the dwarves.

What mattered most was that they had their Homeland once more, some left to try to claim another ancient home, while others stayed and defended Edibald. If you want to see more videos about The Lord of the Rings, click the link on the left of your screen or to see the new short videos from the live broadcast, interviews and more, check out my new channel idg live, there is a link in the middle of your screen, that's all for this moment, thanks for watching. See you soon.