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02-27-2006, 10:51 PM | #1 |
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The Arkenstone
What happened to the Arkenstone after it was found?
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02-28-2006, 01:13 AM | #2 |
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The Dwarves worked with the Arkenstone, so that the Stone became a very beautiful jewel. And it became a heirloom of the Dwarven-King of Durin's House until Smaug sacked Erebor.
Thórin and fellows got the stone back from Smaug and it was buried with Thórin under the mountains. That was it.
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02-28-2006, 06:30 PM | #3 |
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Hmmm. It seems kind of a waste of such a beautiful jewel, to be buried with a dead person. It should be passed on to the generations to come. At least thats what I think.
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02-28-2006, 06:38 PM | #4 |
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But this way it cannot be used against the dwarves as Bilbo used it to force an alliance.
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02-28-2006, 07:27 PM | #5 |
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What happened to the rest of the treasure that Smaug hoarded after he was defeated.
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02-28-2006, 08:18 PM | #6 | |
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Smaug's treasure was distributed among the people living around the Lonley Mountain. Bard got a share to help rebuild Dale and Esgaroth (Laketown), the Elven King got some of it, Bilbo got his fourteenth share, and the rest just stayed with Dain, King Under the Mountain.
As for the Arkenstone, in the chapter "The Return Journey", it says Quote:
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02-28-2006, 11:01 PM | #7 |
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Thanks for all the answers!
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Nice try, but Thorin was not Durin and so he would not be alive again.
Smaugs hord was not distributed in the way told here. "The Hobbit"; chapter 18: "The return journey": Quote:
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03-01-2006, 09:31 PM | #12 |
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So have any of the dwarf Fathers gotten up again and hailed at the door for tea? And didn't Durin live for the longest? How many Dwarven Fathers were there?
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03-03-2006, 07:58 PM | #14 |
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There were 6 members of the Haus of Dúrin and it is recorded that they were named thus because they were the father of that hous reborn. Thus the dwarven rebirth was not really digging your self out of the grave, but rebirth into your childrens children.
We do not know much abut the Durin's: Dúrin I first Dwarf of all and founded Moria Dúrin III aided The Elves in the war ofSauron against Eregion Dúrin VI was killed by the Balrog of Moria in 1980 DZ Dúrn VII & Last reestablished Moria as Dwarven Kingdom in the early fourth age Respectfully Findegil |
03-08-2006, 12:55 AM | #15 |
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If this isn't completely off-topic, I wonder what the Arkenstone really was? Was it just a beautiful jewel? And if it was "just a jewel", how come all the dwarves were so fond of it?
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03-08-2006, 10:09 AM | #16 |
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I would say that the Arkenstone is the equivalent of the Silmarils for the dwarves; they call it the Heart of the Mountain. Furthermore, in HoME IV, The earliest Annal of Valinor, it is stated that the Gothic root arkns (in Old English Eorclan) means holy; and the same root Eorclan is used in the translation of the Silmarils in Old English: Eorclanstanas (even physically they are alike: crystals of diamonds - globe with a thousand faces). It could have even more importance to Thorin since he calls it the treasure of his house.
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03-08-2006, 03:09 PM | #17 |
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Even though it has the prefix 'Holy', they never mentioned it being associated with Aule, but perhaps since the dwarves are secret with language and the origins of awakening and such, they held some beleif that the Arkenstone was a sign meant for Thror to govern Erebor, like the Mirromere, but tangible and less 'holy.'
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03-12-2006, 10:14 AM | #18 |
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Thanks! That cleared my thoughts, at least a little...
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