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Bilbo king under the mountain5/30/2023 there came one day to Bilbo's door the great Wizard, Gandalf the Grey, and thirteen dwarves with him: none other, indeed, than Thorin Oakenshield, descendant of kings, and his twelve companions in exile. The Return of the King, LoTR Appendix A, Annals of the Kings and Rulers: Durin's Folk The story is told elsewhere of what came of that meeting: of the strange plan that Gandalf made for the help of Thorin, and how Thorin and his companions set out from the Shire on the quest of the Lonely Mountain that came to great ends unforeseen. 'I will come,' said Gandalf 'for I guess that we share one trouble at least. For they say that you are wise and know more than any other of what goes on in the world and I. 'For I have thought of you also and though I am on my way to the Shire, it was in my mind that is the way also to your halls.' 'That is strange, Thorin Oakenshield,' said. For you have often come into my thoughts of late, as if I were bidden to seek you.'. It was even as Gandalf sat and pondered this that Thorin stood before him, and said: 'Master Gandalf. How then could the end of Smaug be achieved? Dragon Sauron might use with terrible effect. there were now only the Dwarves of the Iron Hills. by the perilous state of the North because he knew then already that Sauron was plotting war, and intended. He was weary, and thought to rest there for a while. On a time Thorin, returning west from a journey, stayed at Bree for the night. there came about by chance a meeting between Gandalf and Thorin that changed all the fortunes of the House of Durin, and led to other and greater ends beside. Meaning: Also called the Quest of the Lonely Mountainīilbo Baggins sets out with Gandalf, Thorin Oakenshield and 12 other Dwarven companions to reclaim Erebor (The Lonely Mountain) from the clutches of Smaug the Dragon:
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