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Thorin Oakenshield
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fictional character in The Hobbit
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Within Vinony's link graph, Thorin Oakenshield is referenced by 122 other articles, and connects out to Middle-earth dwarf, Geography of Middle-earth and Seven deadly sins.
It sits within the topics Animated characters introduced in 1977, Fictional kings and Film characters introduced in 1977.
Its subject is documented across 38 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Race
- Dwarf
- Title s
- King under the Mountain , King of Durin's Folk
- Book s
- The Hobbit (1937), Unfinished Tales (1980)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male
- Place of death
- Lonely Mountain
- Father
- Thráin II
- Sibling
- Frerin
- Occupation
- metalsmith
- Creator
- J. R. R. Tolkien
- Performer
- Richard Armitage
- Image
- Thorin in blue mountains.jpg
Show 7 more facts
- from narrative universe
- Tolkien's legendarium
- present in work
- The Hobbit trilogy
- owner of
- Arkenstone
- enemy
- Smaug
- relative
- Thrór
- armament
- Orcrist
- killed by
- Orcs in Tolkien's legendarium
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Encyclopedic overview
Thorin Oakenshield (Thorin II) is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's 1937 novel The Hobbit. Thorin is the leader of the Company of Dwarves who aim to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from Smaug the dragon. He is the son of Thráin II, grandson of Thrór, and becomes King of Durin's Folk during their exile from Erebor. Thorin's background is further elaborated in Appendix A of Tolkien's 1955 novel The Return of the King, and in Unfinished Tales.
Commentators have noted that Thorin is Old Norse both in name and character, being surly, illiberal, independent, proud, aristocratic, and like all Dwarves greedy for gold. Tolkien was a Roman Catholic; from a Christian perspective, Thorin exemplifies the deadly sin of avarice, but is able to free himself from it at the time of his death. This deathbed conversion has been compared to the moral transformation of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
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