Erebor

In the universe of the Ground of the Medium of J.R.R. Tolkien, Erebor is located at the north of the Black Forêt, dominating a vast plane extent, from where its other name of Solitary Montagne. The Celduin takes its source there. Its richnesses were exploited for the first time when Thráin Ier, king of the people of Durin, settled there in the year 1999 of the Third Age, after having fled the Moria where the Nains had just waked up a Balrog. This first colonization of Erebor, marked by the discovery of the Arkenstone, was of short duration: in 2190, with died of Thráin, his/her son Thorin Ier left the Solitary Mountain to settle in the Gray Mountains.

The Dwarves were driven out of these mountains into 2590, and their new king, Thrór, brought back them to Erebor. They grew rich thanks to the trade with the Men who lived in the neighborhoods, in particular in the town of Dale, built with the foot of the Mountain; but Smaug, the last of the large dragons, ends up having wind of their opulence. It melted on the Solitary Mountain, killed good number of Dwarves, ruined Dale and was installed in the Mountain, on a gigantic gold heap.

The revenge of the Dwarves took place into 2941, when, with only thirteen companions (including one Hobbit, Bilbon Sacquet), Thorin II, grandson of Thrór, succeeds in taking again the Mountain, Smaug being killed by the archer Bard of Esgaroth. Thorin perishes in the Bataille of the Five Armies which followed little this reconquest, and his/her cousin Dáin II succeeded to him as King under the Mountain. The Dwarves of Erebor fought savagely at the time of the Guerre of the Ring against the Orientaux. They were first of all overcome and had to be locked up in the Mountain where they were besieged, but after the destruction of the single Anneau, the armies of Sauron, disabled, was overcome and driven out by an exit of the Dwarves.

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