He and Frodo fall to talking about his home at the Lonely Mountain, since Frodo doesn't want to discuss the Ring at dinner. He is an important-looking Dwarf with a "very long and forked" white beard, "a silver belt, and round his neck hung a chain of silver and diamonds" (2.1.89). In The Fellowship of the Ring, Glóin appears at the feast celebrating the Ring-bearer's safe arrival at Rivendell. (See our learning guide on The Hobbit for further details on his adventures.) He has never been the most distinctive character – even in The Hobbit, where he has a much bigger role, he mainly appears as a background player in fight scenes. Glóin was one of the members of Thorin Oakenshield's band of Dwarves in The Hobbit. These four Dwarves all appear in Ori's record of the expedition to Moria headed by Balin thirty years before the Ring quest. Glóin tells Frodo that Bombur (never slender) is now so fat that he cannot move from his couch on his own power, and it takes six young Dwarves to lift him. Of these ten, Glóin tells Frodo, seven remain at the side of Dáin, King Under the Mountain: Dwalin, Dori, Nori, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, and Glóin himself. Of these thirteen Dwarves, three die at the end of the novel in the Battle of the Five Armies: Thorín, Fili, and Kili. In The Hobbit, Thorín Oakenshield has twelve companions: Fili, Kili, Dwalin, Balin, Bifur, Bofur, Bombur, Dori, Nori, Ori, Oín, and Glóin. Dwalin, Dori, Nori, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur So the Dwarves believe that one day, Durin will come back to them. Gimli sings that darkness has fallen on Khazad-dûm, but " still the sunken stars appear/ In dark and windless Mirrormere / There lies his crown in water deep,/ Till Durin wakes again from sleep" (2.4.180). When Gandalf and Company have reached a huge, empty hall high up in the Mines, Gimli is moved to sing a song about Moria. Since the day of Durin VI (not the first Durin, but a descendant) Moria has not been safe for people to travel.
But Durin's people dug too deep in Moria, awakening an ancient evil that is now called Durin's Bane. On the door to Moria appears his symbol: a hammer and anvil surmounted by a crown with seven stars. The great ancestor of the Dwarves it was he who delved the Mines of Moria and built the Dwarf city of Khazad-dûm. (Click the infographic to download.) Durin Lord of Moria
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