As it turns out, the grey pilgrim indeed had an important reason to help Thorin's Company, and doing so would prove to be of massive consequence to the future of Middle-earth.

Gandalf also convinced a hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins to tag along as the group's burglar. By the very nature of such a large cast, not every Dwarf in Thorin's Company had much time in the ...

As such, he named the Neanderthal Thorin after the Tolkien character. “Thorin in the Hobbit is one of the last dwarf kings under the mountain and the last of its lineage,” Slimak told the ...