Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy recounts the adventurous life of Bilbo Baggins, which he writes about to his nephew, Frodo ...

Despite its proximity to other groups of Neanderthals and the era’s modern humans, the lineage of the specimen, dubbed ...

The Dwarves reclaimed the Lonely Mountain from the dragon Smaug, but what happened to Erebor after J.R.R. Tolkien's The ...

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern ...

After successfully crossing over (and under) the Misty Mountains, Thorin and Company must seek ... of Lake-town it will be time for the hobbit Bilbo Baggins to fulfill his contract with the ...

Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them ...

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 ...