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Dain became king under the mountain3/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Intended to never wake up despite all the text that spoke of her return since she was sick of all the fighting. Was sleeping in the underwater ruins uncovered during the construction of the Marine Gardens. The Dark King Ixpellia in StrikerS Sound Stage X of Lyrical Nanoha.Compare Present Absence, Rip Van Winkle, Year Outside, Hour Inside, and Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard. Sister Trope to Sealed Good in a Can and Sealed Badass in a Can they overlap in those rare stories where the king does wake. See also Awakening the Sleeping Giant, which comes into play when it does happen while not technically neutral, they are effectively so because they are not in the fray. The implicit power is such that this trope is usually not played out to the end the king is alluded to, or seen asleep, but seldom wakened during the course of a story. The original folkloric motif generally referred the hero's awakening to The End of the World as We Know It the rise of nationalism altered the focus from the entire world to merely the nation. He will come again in his country's hour of need to play Big Damn Heroes. At any rate, somewhere difficult to access. Islands and a Magical Land are other possibilities. Usually, but not necessarily, under a mountain. Dáin was slain in that war, but the Kingdom under the Mountain survived, and the Dwarves still dwelt there as the Fourth Age dawned.A legendary form of Faux Death: the Long-Dead Badass is not really dead, but asleep. His cousin Dáin Ironfoot, who had led the Dwarves of the Iron Hills, became the new lord of the Lonely Mountain, and ruled there as King Dáin II until the time of the War of the Ring. Thorin himself did not survive long enough to rebuild his grandfather's kingdom: he was slain in the Battle of Five Armies. It was Thrór's grandson Thorin Oakenshield who finally achieved this, with the help of the Wizard Gandalf and Bilbo Baggins. Eventually the wandering Dwarves settled far to the west, in the Ered Luin, where they plotted vengeance on the Dragon Smaug. ![]() News of that wealth reached ears of the Dragon Smaug, who descended on the Lonely Mountain and claimed it for himself: yet again the Longbeards were driven out of their home into the wilderness. In his time the Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain reached the height of their wealth and fame. After King Dáin I was slain by a Dragon, his heir Thrór determined to lead the Longbeards back to Erebor, and refound the Kingdom under the Mountain. It is unclear whether the Lonely Mountain was completely abandoned at this time - it seems likely that at least some Dwarves remained - but the royal house was resettled in the far north, and remained there for five generations. Thráin's son Thorin I saw that most of his people were settling in the Grey Mountains, to the north and west of Erebor, and he moved the King's seat to be with his people there. The followers of Thráin I were the founding Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, but that first kingdom did not last long. There he founded a new Dwarf-kingdom beneath The Lonely Mountain, Erebor above the Long Lake. Their King, Náin I, had been slain by the Balrog, but his son Thráin I led many of the Longbeards away to the northeast. After dwelling there for many millennia, they were driven out by a Balrog, and scattered into the Wild as their ancient mansions fell into darkness. Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain The Longbeards of Erebor The original home of the Longbeards, the Dwarves of Durin's Folk, had been the majestic mountain-city of Khazad-dûm. ![]()
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