The Dwarves of Erebor would flee their homeland and become a wandering people Thorin was however able to rescue his grandfather, who foolishly took the Arkenstone with him to hide in the hoard, not knowing Smaug was already there.
He was no match for Smaug, however, who trampled his troops. While Smaug burned the nearby city of Dale, Thorin and his father heroically mustered the Dwarven army at the gate. This came to be when the hoard of gold attracted Smaug to the mountain, and resulted in the Sack of Erebor. However, the kingdom's partnerships began to deter, especially since Thror, hoarding a treasure that was beyond measure or any practical use, becoming enamored with the gold and refuse to give Thranduil the Gems of Lasgalen, not heating his old friends warnings that the wealth would bring him nothing but evil. Thranduil and the Woodland Elves would visit Thror for the White Gems of Lasgalen Smaug, the dragon who stole Erebor from the Dwarves. Under Thror's rule, Erebor was expanded and became “the greatest kingdom in Middle Earth.” The nearby cities of Dale and Esgaroth prospered from its neighboring on Thror's realm, and all other Dwarf mansions were subjected to Thror as the heir to the Throne of Durin. The nearby city of Dale would be in great friendship with Erebor.Įsgaroth would also join the Dwarves of Erebor in prosperity and friendship. The Dwarves went their separate ways with Grór and his followers settling in the Iron Hills and Thrór and his followers settling in the Lonely Mountain. Gror and his followers would separate and form a separate kingdom in the Iron Hills. However, the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains began experiencing attacks by the dragons that still lived in those mountains, and became embroiled in a costly war against them, forcing the Dwarves to abandon the Grey Mountains in T.A. The Dwarves amassed a vast and immeasurable wealth.įor nearly two-hundred and eleven years, the kingdom advanced, expanded, prospered, and endured until Thorin I abandoned it to join his kin in the Grey Mountains, and the Lonely Mountain was abandoned for three-hundred and eighty years, leaving the Arkenstone behind. Thrain I used the Arkenstone as a symbol of his rule, and his sons and grandsons under him who were to follow. In this time, the Dwarves became very rich and amassed a large amount of gold and treasure which included the jewel known as the Arkenstone.
1999, it had become a Dwarven stronghold, where the Dwarves became a numerous and prosperous people. The survivors under Thráin I followed him to the Lonely Mountain and the colony became the ancestral home of the King under the Mountain. 1981.ĭurin's Folk would rule the Lonely Mountain in peace and harmony. The Dwarves may have lived and mined in the mountain during the Second Age, but it wasn't until the mid- Third Age that the colony had become a firmly established Kingdom of the Dwarves after the fall of the ancient Kingdom of Khazad-dûm due to the awakening of the Balrog later known as Durin's Bane in T.A. Thrain I led Moria's survivors to Erebor where they would regrow their power. A mining colony was soon set up and the Old Forest Road was laid out to connect the Dwarves to their great cities from the Iron Hills and as far west as their realms and possessions in the Blue Mountains. The Dwarves of Durin's Folk discovered the mineral wealth of the Lonely Mountain sometime after the awakening of the first Durin. Erebor was the strongest kingdom in Middle-earth before its sacking.
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