While making their escape, Thráin ultimately helped Gandalf navigate through the fortress and continued to explain to him that Smaug and The One were in league with each other until Azog himself launched a surprise attack and knocked Gandalf to the floor. Thráin discovering that the enemy took one of the last seven rings of the dwarves. Before leaving the old fortress, Thráin wanted to know if the map and key (that he gave to Gandalf) were kept safe, but when the wizard told him that he gave the items to Thorin who was embarked on the Quest of Erebor, Thráin was shocked by this and told Gandalf that his son, nor anyone, must never enter the mountain due to the sickness that lied upon the treasure. After been healed by the madness that infected him, Thráin started to remember what had happened to him and realized that he was in Dol Guldur for a long time. The two engage in battle until the wizard managed to to restrain him and used his power to bring back his senses. Deep in the abandoned fortress, a diminished Thráin watched the wizard, before he jumped down onto Gandalf and attacked him under his madness. In TA 2941, after he sent Radagast to inform Lady Galadriel of Sauron's return, Gandalf entered Dol Guldur's interior and began to search for any sign of evil. During his lifetime in the old fortress, Thráin had been tortured for information about the wherabouts of the map and key of the Lonely Mountain, but Thráin refused to answer and would not to tell him that he gave the items to Gandalf for safekeeping.Īn insane Thráin attacking Gandalf in Dol Guldur. However, in truth, it was revealed that he was captured by the Necromancer and became a prisoner in the old ruined fortress of Dol Guldur. Many Dwarves believed that he was driven mad by grief and went missing or had been among the fallen, but his son Thorin had searched among the dead bodies of Moria and knew that Thráin had survived the battle. After he ordered Thorin to stay away from the deadly orc, Thráin ran a charge towards the Dimrill gate to avenge Thrór's death, but was injured by the Defiler, lost Thrór's Ring of Power before he could try, and was taken to Dol Guldur as a prisoner. When his father was killed by Azog the Defiler, he tried to restain his son Thorin from charging towards the pale Orc and warned him that Azog was tasked to wipe out the line of Durin and by his life, he refused to allow the Defiler to kill his own son. Ten years later, Thráin fought alongside his father and son in the siegeless battle against a legion of Orcs that had claimed the ancient dwarf kingdom of Khazad-dûm "Moria". Thráin pleading his son to not engage Azog during the Battle of Moria. At their parting, he gave to his son Thráin his Ring of Power as well as the map of the Lonely Mountain.īattle of Azanulbizar and Lifetime in Dol Guldur ![]() He sought to journey away in search of a scrap of wealth but he did not specify Moria. Years after the destruction of the kingdom of Lonely Mountain, a life of poverty took a toll on the mind of King Thrór and he became restless and desperate. There, they remained for twenty more years where they were forced to make a mangy living. After the dwarves were forced to live in exile away from the Lonely Mountain, Thráin, along with father and son, wandered farther south and they eventually settled in the hills of Dunland. In TA 2880, Thráin fled with his father, his three children, and the surviving Dwarves when the Dragon Smaug descended on the Lonely Mountain and sacked the Dwarven kingdom. ![]()
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