Thorin Oakenshield

The king of the dwarves.

Early life
Thorin is the son of Thrain son of Thror. He saw his grandfarthers greed grow far.When the dragon came he saved his grandfarther from smaug but he lost the arkenstone.When he travelled to moria the orcs had occupied it. his

grandfarther had been killed by the great orc chieftan Azog the defiler. His farther went off mad. Then with nothing but a sword and oak branch he charged at Azog and sliced off his hand. He would'nt see him again for a long time. The dwarves had won but at a great cost. They knew  they could'nt take moria so thorin took the survivors to a land where he would be king. The blue mountains.

The quest to reclaim erebor
Many years later thorin had gandalf find the 14th member of his company and he did find the hobbit bilbo baggins but he was reluclant to join at first.