Erebor
Hall Under the Mountain | |
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Region: | Eryn Lasgalen and the Dale-lands |
Area: | The Dale-lands |
Location: | [29.0N, 25.7W] |
Description
Erebor is the mountain that stood alone in the east of Middle-earth, to the east of Mirkwood and North of Rohan, where the Dwarves founded the Kingdom of Erebor.
Erebor and the Hall Under the Mountain are accessible from other locations within Middle-earth through the Dale-lands, and via Journey to the Hall Under the Mountain for those who have pledged Allegiance to Durin's Folk.
Services
The following services can be found within the settlement of Erebor:
Mailboxes
Tasks Bulletin Board
Travelling
NPCs
- High-enchanter
- Keeper of Mysteries
- Relic-master
- Forge-master
- Tavern Keep
- Healer
- Provisioner
- Supplier
- Auctioneer
- Vault-keeper
- Barber
- Quartermaster (Dwarves of Erebor Rewards)
- Quartermaster (Dwarves of Erebor Crafting)
Allegiance Services
- Foldgráf
- Vórthi - Expedition Organizer
- Bounty Board
- Quartermaster (Durin's Folk)
- Durin's Folk Collection Box
- Dwarf
- Freggi
- Órug
- Stable-master
- Mission Recruiter
- Víglund - Erebor Guard
- Lági Helmbiter
- Reithvald Red-ember
- Uddvar
Crafting
- While there are expert crafters present inside Erebor, in the Hall Under the Mountain, there are no crafting facilities available.
Deeds
The following deeds can be advanced by visiting this place:
Quests
- Allegiance: Durin‘s Folk
Allegiance: Durin‘s Folk Durin's Folk
- [110] Chapter 1: Beneath the Lonely Mountain
- [110] Chapter 2: Loyalty for the New King
- [110] Chapter 3: Gimli's Request
- [110] Chapter 4: Treachery in Mordor
- [110] Chapter 5: Flight from Khazad-dûm
- Audio Journals
Audio Journals Note: Full text of the journals is found at Audio Journals.
The Plateau of Gorgoroth
Udûn
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Udûn
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Udûn
Dor Amarth
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Dor Amarth
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Dor Amarth
Lhingris
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Lhingris
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Lhingris
Talath Úrui
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Talath Úrui
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Talath Úrui
Agarnaith
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Agarnaith
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Agarnaith
Court of Seregost
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: The Court of Seregost
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Court of Seregost
Dungeons of Naerband
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: Naerband Prison
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Naerband Prison
Abyss of Mordath
- Quest: Lost Lore of Gorgoroth: The Abyss of Mordath
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Abyss of Mordath
Great Alliance
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Great Alliance - 27 Stark-white Pages
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Mordor Besieged
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Mordor Besieged
Eryn Lasgalen and the Dale-lands
The Dale-lands
- Quest: Lost Lore of the North: Men
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Men of Dale
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Men of Dale
- Author: Queen Erna
Erebor
- Quest: Lost Lore of the North: Dwarves
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Dwarves of Erebor
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Dwarves of Erebor
- Author: King Thorin III Stonehelm
Felegoth
- Quest: Lost Lore of the North: Elves
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Elves of Felegoth
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Elves of Felegoth
- Author: King Thranduil Swiftstream
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Ered Mithrin and Withered Heath Audio Journals
The Iron Hills
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Dwarf-holds: Ironfold (Iron Hills) - 10 Rusted Pages
- Housing Item: Lost Lore: Ironfold
- Text Copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Ironfold
- Author: An ancient verse from Járnfast.
- Iron Cold
- 'The wealth of Khazad-dûm is known
- 'Fair gems and mithril deck its throne
- 'And yet that gold-rich kingdom lacks
- 'The heart of hauberk, sword, and axe
- 'And so we went forth seeking Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'Farin, Blackmattock, fared afar
- 'By shining sun and sheen of star
- 'And found what once was merely myth
- 'That red-veined peak, the Rusted Lith
- 'And stayed among the Hills of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'His delvings found a wealth of ore
- 'Its worth a hundred hoards and more
- 'A carven keep he wrought to last
- 'Hewn from hillside: stout Járnfast
- 'Blackmattock became Lord of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'For years in Járnfast all was well
- 'But ages end, and times grow fell Black
- 'Thangorodrim fell in thunder
- 'And split the world's stone spine asunder
- 'Shattered was the Hold of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'Still through long years of dauntless toil
- 'Lord Grár the Grave dug stone and soil
- 'The Fast was mended, whole once more
- 'And grander even than before
- 'And so returned our wealth of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'Alas, the peril had not passed
- 'Morgoth's moaning host amassed
- 'In cracks and cleavings under hill
- 'Nameless beasts, with yearnings ill
- 'Fell things moved ’neath seams of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'The Fast's foundation stones were rent
- 'The throng spilled forth without relent
- 'Till Grár descended, stern and swift
- 'And broke the roof above the rift
- 'Grár the Grim-brow died for Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'The cleft collapsed; Grár was no more
- 'His mattock fell upon the floor
- 'Morgoth's monsters shrieked and spit
- 'Imprisoned in the Howling Pit
- 'The horde remains entombed in Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'Lord Frár took up his liege's maul
- 'He called his council, wise dwarves all
- 'To bid them bar his father's grave
- 'So no fiend could escape the cave
- 'The crack was bound with bonds of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
- 'Above the Pit, three gates of steel
- 'Upon the last, a mithril seal
- 'Graven rune-spells guard that curtain
- 'Break them not, or doom is certain
- 'Thus is writ the Rede of Iron
- 'Iron hard and iron cold
Ered Mithrin
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Dwarf-holds: Ered Mithrin - 8 Frozen Pages
- Housing Item: Lost Lore: Ered Mithrin
- Text Copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Ered Mithrin
- Author: An ancient Zhélruka verse.
- Thafar-gathol
- 'The harps sing loud, the fires burn low
- 'Our thoughts now stray to long ago
- 'When in the north and far away
- 'The anvils rang ‘neath Mountains Grey
- 'In olden days, when all was sundered
- 'Our sires left strongholds wrecked and plundered
- 'And hewed new homes far under stone
- 'To carve a kingdom of their own
- 'With iron fists and hammers strong
- 'They ruled a realm of storied song
- 'The glitt'ring mines and glimm'ring hall
- 'Of peerless, proud Thafar-gathol
- 'O reaches rich with gem and ore!
- 'Resplendent runes writ on the door!
- 'O kingly crown of ruby wrought!
- 'The forge-fires flaming ever-hot!
- 'Beryl, bloodstone, sapphire, sard,
- 'Darkest onyx, diamond hard
- 'Gold and garnet filled their hoards
- 'And shone upon their shimm'ring swords
- 'Yet tales they tell of greater treasure
- 'Matchless wealth past mind and measure
- 'Mighty mithril, blazing bright
- 'That drenched the darkened depths with light
- 'The harps grow still, the embers dim
- 'Our ballads glad grow black and grim
- 'For in the north and far away
- 'Our days drew short ‘neath Mountains Grey
- 'Now heed and hearken as I speak
- 'Of times that turned from blithe to bleak
- 'Fast and fearful came the fall
- 'Of fair, forlorn Thafar-gathol
Thikil-gundu
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Dwarf-holds: Thikil-gundu - 14 Rust-stained Writings (red pages)
- Housing Item: Lost Lore: Karazgar
- Text Copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Thikil-gundu
- Author: Karazgar, the Weeping Warrior
- The Pretender
- Lord Sauron, what a legacy you have left behind! Your servants quarrel and seek in vain for dominion of Mordor, and the would-be Free Peoples pour through the Morannon to pick at your bones. If not for me, your grip on this realm would have slipped long ago. It was not your loss of the Ring that unmade you, nor the armies of Men, but your pride and pettiness. Ah, but I sensed that weakness long ago... when you hid in frailty beneath Dol Guldur, desperate to wield the dragons that lingered in this realm.
- You spoke of a survivor of the Elder Days, a great Cold-dragon: Hrímil Frost-heart. Terrible in size and might, Hrímil had slain the Longbeards of the Steel Keep and now slumbered atop their hoards. It was she you desired above all. In the halls of the Steel Keep, I learned that Hrímil had remained faithful to your master of old: the Dark Lord, Morgoth. Though you had claimed his title, she thought you a pretender... a failed servant who had imagined for himself some greater purpose. You were still weakened, Lord Sauron, and when your feigned kindness did not avail you, you thought instead to bend Hrímil to your will. How fortunate you were then that Durin would soon slay her brother, Thorog the Mighty, at Helegrod....
- Once again I returned to the halls of the Steel Keep, and once again Hrímil denied you. The loss of Thorog wounded her greatly, but her will remained unbroken. It was then Hrímil swore that she would never serve you, Lord Sauron. And it was then you learned that Hrímil had devoured the Ring of Power, Tínya, along with the King of the Zhélruka who bore it. Diminished as you were, my lord, I have still not forgotten your fury.
- In the depths of Dol Guldur, you essayed to wield your craft-skill anew. You forged a massive chain and etched it with runes of fell magic. For such brazenness, Hrímil would not be your servant... she was to be your prisoner. Heedless of all peril, Hrímil had fallen into a deep slumber atop the hoards of the Steel Keep. Bound by your chains, Hrímil rose in sudden agony, shrieking as if she were consumed by unseen flame. Though she had devoured the Ring, Tínya still answered to its true master: Hrímil was yours at last.
- It would be many years before you shed the guise of the Necromancer, and so I imprisoned Hrímil beneath the razed remains of Barad-dûr to await your return. There, she endured countless tortures, but never did she surrender the Ring. Upon your return to Mordor, Barad-dûr rose anew and the Gaunt-lords crept out of the shadows of the Elder Days. One among them, Drugoth the Black, wielded the powers of necromancy, and it was then you devised your final vengeance against Hrímil Ring-eater.
- At your bidding, the Gaunt-lords laboured to draw a powerful fell-spirit into this realm. It was to be drawn to Helegrod where rested the remains of Hrímil's brother, Thorog the Mighty. Where Hrímil had resisted, Thorog would now serve in death. And so Thorog served, if but for a moment, and now the Gaunt-lords are banished and Thorog returned to death. You are defeated, Lord Sauron, and the hated Hrímil flies free... but not for long. You see, my lord, I will succeed where you have failed. I will turn the children of Hrímil against her, and she will serve me alone! Hrímil once said that you were a pretender, Lord Sauron. I think now she was right.
Smaug
- Quest: Lost-Lore of the Dwarf-holds: Smaug - 11 Claw-mark Writing (purple runes, not pages)
- Housing Item: Lost Lore: Smaug
- Text Copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Smaug
- Author: Smaug the Dragon
- Smaug's Lament
- 'The war is lost, Thangorodrim broken, the glorious hosts fled. Sister Etterfang and I are the last of our proud line. But it is not over. Oh, no, for we will bring such terrible vengeance upon them... upon them all! We will bide our time high up in these mountains. This is a home for dragons. We will feast and gather treasure and grow strong. We will learn to cover where we are soft. But for now, sleep, and dreams of our revenge.'
- 'Awakened! Disturbed by little pests, scraping in the walls of my mountain. I can smell them, but I do not know the smell. It is not Men, no, nor Elves, nor Orcs... Dwarves! How busily the noisy little insects carve up my peak, stealing my rightful wealth! They will see how Smaug the Golden welcomes intruders. Aha, but how industrious these dwarves were while I slumbered! Carven halls of stone, gold and gemstone shaped and shined. It is worthy of my splendor, this new lair.'
- 'Awake, again! What is this? I hear you, Etterfang! My sister is in battle, in pain! Rragh! I cannot reach her, my lair is sealed by fallen stone. Rend with all my fury, I still cannot carve an exit fast enough. Oh sister, sister, burn them all! Sister Etterfang is not in her lair. There was a struggle. I see the sheared stone from her thrashing claws, the ground scorched by her breath. The smell of a dwarf! She is still alive, I feel it. I will find you, sister.'
- 'The Orcs whisper of a great dragon in the Misty Mountains. Perhaps it is Etterfang. I am loath to leave my hoard unguarded, but I must find her. It is good to stretch my wings and soar.'
- 'There is no sign of Sister Etterfang. Men here worship a dragon they name Draigoch. How amusing. Perhaps I will find my own clan of followers, though I so prefer to toy with them and then eat them.'
- 'What disturbs my slumber now? Rumbling. Am I trapped again? Grragh! What is this? The heads of five dragon-whelps, left before my cave... dwarf-axes sunk into them? Now, now at last, they have truly wakened Smaug's wrath! Sister missing, dragon-whelps slain... I have known only sorrow in these grey peaks. Let sorrow take wing. I am fury, I am vengeance, I am Smaug the Golden, mighty and merciless. I will roam until I find dwarves - and then let them cower before my wrath!'
Vales of Anduin Audio Journals
Old Mad Ubb
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Vales: Old Mad Ubb - 10 Birch-bark Pages
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Old Mad Ubb (Male Reader)
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Old Mad Ubb (Female Reader)
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Old Mad Ubb
Tauralindalë
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Vales: Tauralindalë - 9 Old-elven Parchments
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Tauralindalë
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Tauralindalë
Morgul Vale Audio Journals
Cirith Ungol
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Morgul Vale: Cirith Ungol - 19 Ancient Pages
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Cirith Ungol
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Cirith Ungol
Minas Morgul
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Morgul Vale: Minas Morgul - 19 Glowing Pages
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Minas Morgul
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Minas Morgul
Thuringwath
- Quest: Lost Lore of the Morgul Vale: Thuringwath - 18 Rune-inscribed Pages
- Housing item: Lost Lore: Thuringwath
- Text copy: Copy of Lost Lore: Thuringwath
- Erebor
Erebor Quests
- [115] Ale-thieves - Snállar
- [115] Roots of Gold - Bráthi
- The Secret Stone Quests
- [115] The Secret Stone - Landscape
- [115] The Lost Pages
- [115] The Mad Dwarf
- [115] The Key and the Keyhole
- Under the Mountain
- [115] Under the Mountain
- [115] A King Lost, A King Gained
- [115] The Forsaken of Mordor
- [115] Carving Out A Home
- [115] Forged in Flames
- [115] Hunting the North
- [115] A Costly Journey
- [115] Ambassador to the King
- [115] Reforging a Kingdom
- [115] Essays of Old
- [115] The Ravens of the North
- [115] Forging Trust
- Trail of Rust
- For the other quests in this chain, see Category:Trail of Rust Quests.
- [115] Concerning Dragons
- [115] The Teeth of Scatha
- [115] Scatha's Legacy
- [115] Epilogue: Trail of Rust
- [115] Thorog's Legacy
- [115] Bregmor's Legacy
Lore
Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain
The Longbeards of Erebor The original home of the Longbeards, the Dwarves of Durin's Folk, had been the majestic mountain-city of Khazad-dûm. After dwelling there for many millennia, they were driven out by a Balrog, Durin's Bane, and scattered into the Wild as their ancient mansions fell into darkness. Their King, Náin I, had been slain by the Balrog, but his son Thráin I led many of the Longbeards away to the northeast. There he founded a new Dwarf-kingdom beneath the Lonely Mountain, Erebor above the Long Lake.
The followers of Thráin I were the founding Dwarves of Erebor, but that first kingdom did not last long. Thráin's son Thorin I saw that most of his people were settling in the Grey Mountains, to the north and west of Erebor, and he moved the King's seat to be with his people there. It is unclear whether Erebor was completely abandoned at this time - it seems likely that at least some Dwarves remained - but the royal house was resettled in the far north, and remained there for five generations.
After King Dáin I was slain by a Dragon, his heir Thrór determined to lead the Longbeards back to Erebor, and refound the Kingdom under the Mountain. In his time the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain reached the height of their wealth and fame. News of that wealth reached ears of the Dragon Smaug, who descended on the Lonely Mountain and claimed it for himself: yet again the Longbeards were driven out of their home into the wilderness.
Eventually, the wandering Dwarves settled far to the west, in the Ered Luin, where they plotted vengeance on the Dragon Smaug. It was Thrór's grandson Thorin Oakenshield who finally achieved this, with the help of the Wizard Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins. Thorin himself did not survive long enough to rebuild his grandfather's kingdom: he was slain in the Battle of Five Armies. His cousin Dáin Ironfoot, who had led the Dwarves of the Iron Hills, became the new lord of the Lonely Mountain, and ruled there as King Dáin II until the time of the War of the Ring. Dáin was slain in that war, but the Kingdom under the Mountain survived, and the Dwarves still dwelt there as the Fourth Age dawned. [1]
The Battle of Five Armies and the Dwarves of Erebor
Tremors Under the Mountain
- The history of Middle-earth has shifted in many places, few so important as the Lonely Mountain. Though the Battle of Five Armies happened long before the War of the Ring, its impact on Sauron’s forces was tremendous. Even with Smaug – who surely would have been an ally in the wars to come – slain, the Dark Lord lost a great deal of time and power with the defeat the goblins of Gundabad. Even a partial defeat would have left him with strength in the north of Rhovanion, enough that he might have later overpowered the defenders of Dale and Erebor in the battles there. The utter destruction of his forces, however, spurred by Bolg’s rash hunger to avenge the Great Goblin, meant he had to commit the Orcs of Dol Guldur and a goodly portion of the Easterlings in his service to the northern front. This would have ramifications in his war, for his strength the assaults on Lórien and Gondor was thus reduced. His forces were not spread thin, but those Orcs and Easterlings may well have been able to turn the tide in his favor, and even press on into Rohan and Isengard.
- A goblin victory, of course, would have been even worse. Had Erebor fallen – a strong possibility if the enmities of Man, Elf, and Dwarf not been set aside that day, or if the Eagles and Beorn had not arrived when they did – there would have been no northern front, and Rhovanion would have become a stronghold from which he could launch assaults on the lands to the south and west. In addition to Lórien, he might have been able to take Rivendell, and with the aid of Angmar, the lands of the Dúnedain and the Shire. The war may well have begun much earlier, and Sauron’s agents may have claimed the Ring from Bilbo Baggins long before Gandalf learned the truth about it. Middle-earth would have been crushed beneath his heel.
- Luckily (or by the grace of the Valar) this did not come to pass. This was in no small part because of the valor of the Dwarves, especially Thorin Oakenshield, who fell in the battle, and his cousin Dáin, who survived to be crowned King Under the Mountain. Others, too, became heroes in the course of the battle, and went on to great deeds, for both good and ill. Balin went on to reclaim the halls of Moria, to a disastrous end that helped to stir up Orcs and darker things there (but which led, in the end, to the death of Gandalf the Grey and his rebirth with even greater power as the White, which surely helped turn the tide of the war). Dwalin became lord of Ered Luin, and helped oppose Skorgrím Dourhand in a struggle which ultimately broke the power of Angmar and finished crippling the Enemy in the North. And Glóin became Dáin’s emissary, an Elf-friend whose son Gimli aided the Ringbearer and helped bring about needed victories in Rohan and Gondor. The sons of Bifur and Bofur formed the Iron Garrison, which established a new colony in Khazad-dûm. Even Bombur, though no longer able to walk because of his ever-spreading girth, became an incredibly rich and respected benefactor beneath the Mountain.
- Dáin’s last victory came in the War of the Ring itself, when he fell in battle against the Orcs and Easterlings Sauron sent to destroy Erebor and Dale. His sacrifice helped carry the day, but it also left a void that would prove nigh-impossible to fill. Though his son, Thorin III, was a mighty warrior in his own right, many Dwarves immediately considered him a lesser King than his forebears. His is a hard lot, for how could he hope to aspire to match his own father’s glory, or that of Thorin Oakenshield? Even his epithet, Stonehelm, became a curse because some feel he used the Mountain for protection rather than storming out from its gates as his namesake did in days of old. Thus, while the Battle of Five Armies helped save Middle-earth from Sauron, its legacy has made the crown heavy indeed upon the brow of its current King. Those who remain faithful to him now face a difficult struggle to keep the whispers of the unfaithful from flaring into sedition and revolt, and to securing his repute and his place on the throne.
Allegiance
Dwarves: Durin's Folk - Erebor As the War of the Ring drew to a close, the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain defied the armies of Sauron. Dáín Ironfoot, the King under the Mountain, fell before the gates of Erebor and his son Thorin III succeeded to the throne. Swear your allegiance to Durin’s Folk, and you will aid the new King under the Mountain as he seeks to ensure their place in Middle-earth.
Gallery
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Map of the Hall Under the Mountain.