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AshNazg
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Feb 26 2013, 1:05pm
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Thorin took work where he could find it, laboring in the villages of men
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Am I right in assuming what Thorin is forging at Dale is the Black Arrow? If so, what significance will this have later?
The way I read it is that when Thorin was looking for work he met and was employed by Bard's family as a blacksmith. Here he made the Black Arrow for the very purpose it is used in the story and as such its destiny is later fulfilled - this gives Thorin more involvement in an area of the story that he's otherwise absent.
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DanielLB
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Feb 26 2013, 1:15pm
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The shot was after Dale was destroyed
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And more than likely just one of many random settlements in Middle-earth. Plus, it was a sword.
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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Feb 26 2013, 2:42pm
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Dale was destroyed by Smaug...
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Am I right in assuming what Thorin is forging at Dale is the Black Arrow? If so, what significance will this have later?
The way I read it is that when Thorin was looking for work he met and was employed by Bard's family as a blacksmith. Here he made the Black Arrow for the very purpose it is used in the story and as such its destiny is later fulfilled - this gives Thorin more involvement in an area of the story that he's otherwise absent.
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When would Thorin's wanderings have taken him to Dale at the right time to forge the Black Arrow belonging to Bard's family? Smaug destroyed Dale right after he occuped Lonely Mountain. The survivors of Erebor probably didn't start working for Men just to scrape by until after crossing the Misty Mountains. It was never even confirmed that Bard's arrow was made by Dwarves. The odds that Thorin crafted the Black Arrow are incredibly long.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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Rostron2
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Feb 26 2013, 4:48pm
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It would be a way to arc in Thorin more to the story, but it's farfetched.
It's dangerous to quote book canon here versus movie canon, but the line is "if ever you came from the forges of the King under the mountain...blah blah..." Meaning it was made when the kingdom was thriving.
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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Feb 26 2013, 10:36pm
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If the arrow was forged under the Mountain then it was (as previously discussed) a relic of Girion's time, if not earlier. Another part of Bard's speech:
You have never failed me and always I have recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old.
Prior to Smaug's attack, Thorin was probably too young and inexperienced to have crafted such a masterwork weapon. I do think that the workmanship of the arrow should suggest that it was of Dwarvish make.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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swordwhale
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Feb 27 2013, 6:18am
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I never thought of that....
thanks for the insights!
Go outside and play...
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Roheryn
Dor-Lomin
Feb 27 2013, 7:39am
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And oh, did he look good doing it.
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What? Someone had to say it! 
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Angharad73
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Feb 27 2013, 8:01am
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It had to be said!
I just wish that sequence had been a little bit longer. Only so that we could see in more detail what exactly he was making there, of course... 
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Roheryn
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Feb 27 2013, 8:07am
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Longer, purely for empirical purposes. *Ro nods knowingly*
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One should never stint when undertaking research. The longer, the better...
You do realize that Thorin was originally supposed to be shirtless in that scene, right? As per the Weta Chronicles book. Given that he's laboring over that hot forge, it's only natural he'd want to lose as many layers as possible.
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Angharad73
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Feb 27 2013, 8:23am
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Yes, I know... That would have been interesting. Those tattoos would have needed closer inspection. Purely as a reference to Dwarvish culture, naturally... All in the interest of research.
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Esmeralda
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Feb 27 2013, 2:23pm
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I think it would be cool if...
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...the arrow that takes down Smaug was shown to have been made in the mountain that the dragon despoiled, crafted by the dwarves he ravaged and displaced. I love that kind of poetic justice.
I suppose it could have been forged during Girion's reign - if 5 or 6 generations of men could be considered "of old". So there is a remote possibility that a very young Thorin could have made it - perhaps a simple iron arrow wouldn't be too challenging for a talented dwarf princeling? (Why do I have a picture of his parents sticking his designs on the fridge along with Dis' fingerpaints and Frerin's etchings of uneven Cirth-script?)
The anvil-scene in the movie is great - showing a powerful dwarf-lord reduced to laboring for others. It encapsulates so much of where Thorin is at the beginning of the quest:
"A great anger without hope burned him, as he smote the red iron on the anvil." Appendix III - Durin's Folk
I'm also curious about the filming itself - in LotR, the commentary said they used actual hot metal for the forging scenes, so I'm wondering if Richard was actually hammering a white-hot bar of iron - while wearing prosthetic hands. Challenging much?
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Otaku-sempai
Elvenhome
Feb 27 2013, 3:39pm
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I agree that it would make for a nice 'Easter egg'
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We could see a flashback of Dwarven smiths working under the Mountain and 'just happen' to glimpse the Black Arrow. Perhaps the following sequence shows the arrow as part of a shipment being sold in Dale when the city was still prosperous.
'There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' - Gandalf the Grey, The Fellowship of the Ring
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sharku
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Feb 28 2013, 5:56am
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It would be a way to arc in Thorin more to the story, but it's farfetched.
Don't you mean 'far-fletched'
(This post was edited by sharku on Feb 28 2013, 5:57am)
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