![]() ![]() While Thorin Oakenshield was out hunting one day in TA 2770, Smaug flew in from the northern mountains and attacked the Lonely Mountain. They went their separate ways: Grór and his followers settled in the Iron Hills, and Thrór with his followers went to the Lonely Mountain. However, the Dwarves of the Grey Mountains began to be attacked by the Dragons that still lived in those mountains, and became embroiled in a costly war against them, which forced the Dwarves to abandon the Grey Mountains in TA 2590. ![]() ![]() The Lonely Mountain was abandoned for three-hundred and eighty years. Thráin I used the Arkenstone as a symbol of his rule, and his sons and grandsons under him who were to follow.įor two-hundred and eleven years the kingdom advanced, expanded and propsered until Thorin I abandoned it to join his kin in the Grey Mountains in TA 2210. In time, they became very rich and amassed a large amount of gold and treasure which included the jewel known as the Arkenstone. In TA 1999 King Thráin I led his people there and became King under the Mountain. Durin's Folk discovered the mineral wealth of the Lonely Mountain during the Second Age, but the colony only came into its own after the fall of Khazad-dûm. ![]()
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