
(In The Hobbit he is only called "the Elvenking" his name " Thranduil" is given in The Lord of the Rings. The Elvenking, king of the Mirkwood Elves.The Hobbit calls him an elf-friend rather than an elf, one "who had both elves and heroes of the North for ancestors." Elrond, master of Rivendell, the Last Homely House East of the Sea.His primary traits were his fatness and his sympathy for Bilbo's plights. He wore a yellow hood and played clarinet. Three dwarves which "descended from the Dwarves of Moria but were not of Durin's line":.Dori was tasked with carrying Bilbo in the goblin tunnels. Three dwarves who were Thorin's remote kinsmen:.(Gloin was the father of the character Gimli in The Lord of the Rings. Gloin openly doubted Bilbo at the start of the quest. He and Oin were charged with starting the campfires. He and Gloin were charged with starting the campfires. He was the first of the dwarves that Bilbo met. He wore a dark green hood and a golden belt, had a blue beard tucked into the belt, and, like his brother Balin, he played the viol. (Balin is the only dwarf to have returned to Bag End to visit Bilbo after the main events in The Hobbit. Bilbo and Balin later became good friends. He wore a red hood and had a white beard. Four of Thorin's third-cousins – two pairs of brothers:.They wore blue hoods and grew yellow beards. The youngest dwarves in the Company and therefore useful for their keen eyesight. Fili and Kili, sons of Thorin's sister.He possessed the longest beard in the Company, and wore a gold belt and a sky-blue hood with a large silver tassel. Thorin Oakenshield, leader of the Company and hereditary claimant of the kingdom of the Lonely Mountain.Tolkien took the names of Gandalf and 12 of the 13 dwarves – excluding Balin – from the Old Norse Völuspá. Their quest was joined by Bilbo Baggins (the titular hobbit) and occasionally by the wizard Gandalf. Thorin's Company consisted of the following 13 dwarves Their quest in The Hobbit is the main impetus of the plot. Dain son of Nain, a cousin of Thorin, comes to the aid of Thorin's Company at the Battle of Five Armies leading a company of more than five hundred dwarves.Thrain, father of Thorin, whom Gandalf found witless and wandering in the dungeons of the Necromancer.


Thror, grandfather of Thorin, King under the Mountain when it was conquered by Smaug.

