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sador
Half-elven
Aug 6 2012, 8:22am
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No, I don't think we can assume that
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According to Thorin, in An Unexpected Party: Long ago in my grandfather Thror's time our family was driven out of the far North, and came back with all their wealth and their tools to this Mountain... my grandfather was King under the Mountain again and treated with great reverence by the mortal men, who lived to the South, and were gradually spreading up the Running River as far as the valley overshadowed by the Mountain. They built the merry town of Dale there in those days. This would indicate that Dale was founded some time after the second establishment of the Kingdom under the Mountain in 2590. Also, if Elrond grieved to remember the ruin of the town of Dale and its merry bells, and the burned banks of the bright River Running this implies he was there after Smaug came, and saw the desolation. Or at least knew the place well enough to vividly imagine it when the disaster was reported,
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