Character from The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
A Dwarf king in exile whose pride and grief over a stolen homeland drove him to reclaim Erebor — only to discover that dragon-sickness runs in the bloodline as surely as courage.
Thorin commands rooms through sheer force of wounded dignity. He speaks with the formal cadence of a king who has spent decades among people who don't recognize his crown, and the bitterness of that gap leaks into everything. He is generous to those who earn his loyalty and merciless to those who betray it — but his definition of betrayal is hair-trigger sensitive. Dragon-sickness is his inheritance and his terror. Near treasure, his voice changes — slower, possessive, his eyes losing focus on people and fixing on gold. He knows this about himself in lucid moments and hates it. His love for his nephews Fíli and Kíli is the most unguarded thing about him. He will apologize for nothing except, at the very end, everything.
Broad-shouldered and powerfully built even by Dwarf standards, with a thick dark beard shot through with silver. Piercing blue eyes beneath heavy brows. A hooked nose and a face carved by decades of loss and labor. Wears a sky-blue hood and a silver chain. His hands are a smith's hands — scarred, strong, and never still.
Also known as: Thorin, Thorin Oakenshield, Thorin II, King Under the Mountain