Where Were The Dwarves In The Lord Of The Rings?
We meet more Dwarves in the first eight pages of The Hobbit than we do in the entirety of The Lord of the Rings. Following Dwalin, Balin, Fili, and Kili through Bilbo’s door are nine more Dwarves, to be known (along with one Hobbit and a Wizard) as Thorin’s Company. The fate of Thorin Oakenshield and his unfortunate nephews is writ, but after forging unbreakable bonds of friendship with Bilbo during the events of The Hobbit, where are the rest of the Dwarves in the Lord of the Rings? And what of their kin?
The first is easy, as he actually shows up in the Lord of the Rings. Glóin is Gimli’s old man, and accompanies his son to the Council of Elrond. They’re there on important business, as an emissary of the Dark Lord knocked on Dwarven Kingdom of Erebor’s enormous gates and offered them riches in return for the location of Bilbo Baggins and his Ring of Power. They wanted to warn Bilbo of the warrant on his head, and seek counsel with Elrond over the troubling nature of the aforementioned Ring and of Glóin’s cousin Balin’s ill-fated journey to Moria. As it happened, they found both Bilbo and the Ring in Rivendell itself, and Gimli (who had been too young to journey to reclaim Erebor with his father) joined the Fellowship.
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The next Dwarf in question is Balin. If you’ve only seen the Jackson, Walsh, and Boyens trilogy, you might think that Gimli was unaware of Balin’s fate before our party entered Moria, but in the books he’s more hesitant. Balin left Erebor as part of a search party, with the intention of checking whether Moria was safe to repopulate and, if so, to ultimately recreate the great Dwarven city of old. He also brought Óin and Ori with him from Thorin’s
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