if the meek hobbit were to embark on the dwarves’ expedition to the Lonely Mountain. He insists to Thorin and co. that though Bilbo may seem fussy and faint-hearted, he is “as fierce as a ...

Thus, as Thorin Oakenshield, the leader of the Company of Dwarves who aim to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug, tells the hobbit Bilbo Baggins that the dwarves mission to the ...

Just as Gandalf remembers the password and opens the door, a tentacled beast emerges from the disturbed water and attacks ... King Thrór's reign of the Lonely Mountain, the dwarves there amassed ...

the distant view of the Sugar Loaf’s conical summit inspired a key part of The Hobbit. Erebor, the Lonely Mountain where the dragon Smaug guards his hoard is said to be based largely on the Sugar Loaf ...

But I have a new suggestion for Rings fans who might want to shake things up, or put an all-ages-friendly spin on the tradition: 1977’s The Hobbit ... recapture the Lonely Mountain from the ...

In Middle-earth, the Lonely Mountain, once a thriving dwarven kingdom ... Determined, he gathered a company, including the unsuspecting Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, for the dangerous quest to restore ...

Erebor, once claimed by Smaug, was reclaimed by Thorin Oakenshield and Dwarves in The Hobbit, aiding in the ... the Dwarves freed the Lonely Mountain and settled there once more.

Watercolour painting by J.R.R. Tolkien, “The Hill: Hobbiton-across-the-Water”, used as the ... brings us back with him from the Lonely Mountain, ordinary hobbit and human life can itself ...

Eleven years ago, Tolkienites rejoiced as The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey ... Determined to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from Smaug, and secure the coveted Arkenstone, Thorin's redemptive story ...

Clean, drinkable water delivered directly to the home—to Angelenos of 1859, it was a revolutionary concept. Since its founding in 1781, the city had always found a reliable source of water—for ...