Dain

A note on the naming of dwarves.

  • 15.021 But go specially to my cousin Dain
  • 15.043 before Dain could reach the Lonely Mountain,
  • 16.004 that Dain and more than five hundred dwarves,
  • 16.029 You have not heard of Dain
  • 16.031 Dain, I may tell you,
  • 17.002 That will be Dain!’
  • 17.025 by the help of Dain he might not recapture the Arkenstone
  • 17.030 telling Dain of what had passed,
  • 17.031 Dain had come.
  • 17.031 the secret of whose making was possessed by Dain’s people.
  • 17.033 We are sent from Dain son of Nain,’
  • 17.034 and nearly all of Dain’s folk,
  • 17.035 between Thorin and Dain);
  • 17.035 for the dwarves of Dain were advancing
  • 17.041 O Dain!
  • 17.043 Let Dain son of Nain come swiftly to us!’
  • 17.044 hard on the heels of Dain.
  • 17.045 and with Dain,
  • 17.051 and ‘Dain, Dain!’
  • 17.051 and ‘Dain, Dain!’
  • 17.058 rushed all the dwarves of Dain to his help.
  • 18.027 Dain has crowned their chief with gold,
  • 18.032 There now Dain son of Nain took up his abode,
  • 18.032 The others remained with Dain;
  • 18.032 for Dain dealt his treasure well.
  • 18.033 for Dain said:
  • 18.034 which Dain had restored to him.
  • 18.046 that Dain had given him at their parting.

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