![]() He returned to Zudrugund with news of Thrór's fate, and again after the Sixth War of Dwarves and Orcs, and when Thráin and Thorin removed to eventually find a home in Ered Luin, Nár remained in Zudrugund with only a few others, among them his old friend Hervin Drake-slayer and Hervin's son, Frithgeir. Twenty years later, when Thrór passed the remaining heirlooms of Erebor to his son and set out for the lost halls of Khazad-dûm, Nár alone went with him and so saw first-hand what became of the old king at the hands of Azog. ![]() Nár followed Thrór like many others of the survivors of Durin's Folk of Erebor into exile, and eventually they settled at Zudrugund on the fringes of Dunland. He was a friend and esquire to Thrór, King Under the Mountain when Smaug drove the dwarves out of Erebor in T.A. As a result, Thorin loses respect for Bilbo out of feeling that the Hobbit will never understand honour and war.Nár is a very old dwarf, even by dwarven standards. The Arkenstone does not appear in the 1977 Rankin/Bass animated The Hobbit adaptation. In addition, possession of the Arkenstone grants the holder the right to summon the seven armies of the Dwarves, an inherent contradiction given that Thrór does not possess it at the time of the Battle of Azanulbizar. In the books, this greed is partly caused by possessing one of the Seven Rings of Power, but in the films it is the Arkenstone itself that causes 'Dragon sickness'. In Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy, the Arkenstone is discovered during the reign of Thrór, not Thráin I and feeds into the growing greed of Thorin's grandfather. The Arkenstone in Gene Deitch's version of The Hobbit Portrayal in Adaptations The roots of the term Arkenstone were drawn either from the Gothic word aírkns ("holy") or the Old English eorcnanstan ("precious stone"). The Arkenstone was placed upon Thorin's chest within his tomb deep under the Lonely Mountain, and so was returned to the earth at last. Then an army of Orcs arriving from the Grey Mountains interrupted the dispute, the Battle of Five Armies ensued, and Thorin was killed. Bard, Thranduil, and Gandalf then tried to trade it for Bilbo's fourteenth share of Smaug's hoard. When the Dwarves refused to share any of the treasure with King Thranduil and Bard, the man who had killed Smaug, Bilbo crept out of the Dwarves' fort inside the Mountain, and gave them the Arkenstone. While the Dwarves with Thorin sorted the treasure, Thorin sought only the Arkenstone, unaware that Bilbo was hiding it in his pillow. When Bilbo Baggins found it on Smaug's golden bed deep inside the Lonely Mountain, he pocketed it, having learned how much Thorin valued it. Such did he consider its value that he was willing to trade 1/14th of all the gold and silver of Smaug's hoard for it.īilbo Baggins delivers the Arkenstone to Thranduil and Bard, by Ted Nasmith The gem was the object most prized by Thorin Oakenshield of all the treasures of the Lonely Mountain. When Smaug came to the Lonely Mountain the Arkenstone became a part of his hoard. The Arkenstone returned to the Lonely Mountain centuries later, returned by King Thrór after dragons drove his people out of the Grey Mountains. After it's discovery and cutting by Dwarf artisans the jewel became an heirloom of the Kings of Durin's Folk and was taken by Thorin I to the Grey Mountains when he removed his people there. The Arkenstone was discovered not long after the founding of the Dwarf Kingdom under the Mountain by Thráin I. The Arkenstone set above King Thror's throne The Arkenstone shone of its own inner light, and appeared a "little globe of pallid light" in darkness, and yet, cut and fashioned by the Dwarves, it took all light that fell upon it and changed it into "ten thousand sparks of white radiance, shot with glints of the rainbow".
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