Prelude to The Hobbit - What led to the Events of the Hobbit? Battle of Azanulbizar - Tolkien Lore

A detailed lore video about the events that let to what we know from The Hobbit book. We talk about the Dwarves a lot, esp. about the Sacking of Erebor due to the Dragon Smaug and the Battle of Azanulbizar. But Also about the White Council, the struggles of Gondor and Rohan and the birth of Aragorn.


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I have permission of the artists to use their art works.

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Pete Amachree - https://artstation.com/summerpudding


► Sources:
The Lord of The Rings (1954-1955) by J. R. R. Tolkien
The Silmarillion (1977)
The Hobbit (1937; 1951)
Unfinished Tales (1980)
The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien (1981)
The Peoples of Middle-earth (1996)
The War of The Jewels (1994)
The Lost Road and Other Writings (1987)
The Shaping of Middle-earth (1986)
Morgoth's Ring (1993)
History of the Hobbit (2007)
The Nature of Middle-earth (2021)

TolkienGateway.net

Maps:
Amazon (John Howe)
Edited by: Murdo
Aman map by ThePhilosophersGames

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