Battle of Five Armies
Date: late October, T.A. 2941 Location: Erebor (the Lonely Mountain) Result: Victory for alliance of Dwarves, Elves, and Men of Lake-town
Combatants
Dwarves of the Iron Hills and Erebor, Elves of the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood, Giant Eagles, Men of Lake-town	Orcs, Wargs, Bats
Commanders
Gandalf, Thranduil, Bard the Bowman, Dain II Ironfoot, Thorin II Oakenshield†, Lord of the Eagles	Bolg†
Strength
500 Dwarves of the Iron Hills, 13 Dwarves of Erebor, 200 Men of Lake-town, over 1,000 Elves of the Woodland Realm, Beorn, many Giant Eagles.	Several thousand Orcs, Wargs and Mirkwood bats
Casualties
Unknown	Almost all destroyed

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The Battle of Five Armies is also the name of a war game to replay this battle made by Games Workshop. The game uses 10mm miniatures and is heavily based on their Warmaster system. Three Warhammer 40,000 Miniatures. ... The style of the Games Workshop logo is copied in the titles of many of their games Games Workshop (GW) is a British game production and retailing company. ... A miniature figure -- also known as a miniature or just a mini -- is a small figurine commonly used in role playing games (RPGs) such as Dungeons & Dragons. ... Warmaster is a tabletop wargame created by Rick Priestly, published by Games Workshop, and set in the Warhammer Fantasy setting. ...

The Battle of Five Armies was waged between the Goblins and the Wargs against Men, Elves, Dwarves on and near the Lonely Mountain, after Bard the Bowman killed the dragon Smaug. The hobbit Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Beorn, huge bats out of Mirkwood, and the great Eagles also took part but are not included in the count of five armies. Prior to the battle, the Men of the Lake and the Wood-elves had laid siege to the Dwarves in the Lonely Mountain, when the 13 Dwarves in Erebor under Thorin II Oakenshield refused to share any of the treasure they had recaptured from Smaug. Orcs in Moria, from the 1978 animated film adaptation of The Lord of the Rings. ... In Old Norse Warg (vargr) is an euphemism for wolf (ulfr), still used in modern Swedish as a word for wolf. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... The Dwarves of J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth are beings of short stature who all possess beards, and are often friendly with Hobbits although long suspicious of Elves. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth legendarium, the Lonely Mountain (Sindarin Erebor) is a mountain in the northeast of Rhovanion. ... A fictional character in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, Bard the Bowman of Esgaroth was one of the most skilled archers among Men, and the heir of Girion, the last king of old Dale. ... J. R. R. Tolkiens universe of Middle-earth features dragons closely based on those of European legend. ... For the MUD of this name, see SMAUG. In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, Smaug was a greedy, reddish-gold dragon of Middle-earth, who laid waste to Dale and captured the Lonely Mountain (Erebor) with all its treasure, which he gathered in a central hall and slept... Hobbits are a subset of the race of Men from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth, sometimes considered a separate race. ... Bilbo Baggins is the central character in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit, and a minor character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. ... Gandalf is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings. ... Beorn is also a genus of extinct tardigrades, see Beorn leggi In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Beorn was a skin-changer, a man who could assume the appearance of a great black bear. ... Mirkwood was the name of the Maeotian marshes which separated the Goths from the Huns in the Norse Hervarar saga. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, the eagles were immense flying birds that were sentient, and could speak. ... For more general description of Wood Elves, see Wood-elves. ... Treasure is a concentration of riches, often that which is considered lost or forgotten until being rediscovered. ...

Thorin's company was then trapped in a bloodless siege, with Thranduil and Bard hoping to wait him out. However, Thorin had sent messages of his plight to his relatives using talking messenger Ravens that lived on the Lonely Mountain. These reached Dain II Ironfoot of the nearby Iron Hills, and he marched to Erebor with 500 heavily armed Dwarves, most skilled veterans of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. When Dain's forces arrived, battle was almost joined between the two sides (now three armies were on the field) but at the last moment Gandalf intervened between the two and revealed that while they were bickering amongst themselves, the Orcs of the Misty Mountains and Grey Mountains under Bolg were using the opportunity to march against them. They had been incited by Gandalf's earlier slaying of the Great Goblin, but had now mobilized for a full-scale attack after hearing news of the death of the Dragon and the now relatively unguarded treasure hoard. King Thranduil was a character in the fictitious world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional realm of Middle-earth, the War of the Dwarves and Orcs was a great war fought between the two races. ... Gandalf is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens fantasy epic, The Lord of the Rings. ... Misty Mountains as seen in the prologue to Fellowship of the Ring In J. R. R. Tolkiens fantasy world of Middle-earth, the Misty Mountains (also known by its Sindarin name of Hithaeglir - misspelled as Hithaiglin on the original Lord of the Rings map - and as the Mountains of... In the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, the Ered Mithrin or Grey Mountains was a large mountain range to the north of Rhovanion. ... In Tolkiens Middle-earth, Bolg was an Orc chieftain, the son of Azog, who came to power in Moria after Azog was killed in the war with Dwarves. ...

The three commanders agreed that the Orcs were the enemies of all and previous grievances between them were put on hold in face of the greater threat. They arranged their forces on the two spurs of the Mountain that lined the valley leading to the now-sealed off great gate; the only entrance to the Mountain. The Dwarves and Lake-men formed up on one spur and the Elves on the other, while a light rear-guard lined across the mouth of the valley to lure the Orcs between the two, and thus destroy them. Bilbo Baggins, while invisible due to the Ring, tried to sit out the battle on the spur held by the Elves. Bilbo Baggins is the central character in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit, and a minor character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. ...

Soon the Orcs and Wargs arrived (and now five armies were on the field), and at first the plan worked: they were lured into the choke point by a thin line of men of the Lake Town and took heavy loses. However, due to their superior numbers, the allied Free Folk did not hold the advantage long. The second wave was even worse than the first, and now many Orcs scaled the mountain from the opposite side, and began to attack the arrayed forces from above and behind, as the main wave pressed forward. The battle raged across the Mountain, and then a great noise was heard: Thorin and his 12 Dwarf companions inside the mountain had thrown down the stone wall they had erected across the mouth of the gates, killing many Orcs. Thorin & Co. then charged out to join the battle, covered from head to toe in the finest armour and weapons contained in the treasure hoard of Erebor. Thorin advanced through the Orcs ranks all the way up to the gigantic Orcs that formed the Bodyguard of Bolg, who he could not get past. The battle degenerated into a chaotic melee, no quarter asked or given.

As the battle was turning fully against the Free Folk, a large force of Giant Eagles of the Misty Mountains arrived, led by the Lord of the Eagles. Bilbo was the first to spot their entrance on the scene and began shouting that "the Eagles are coming!", a shout that was then continued among the other troops of the Free Folk. At this point Bilbo was knocked in the head by a large stone thrown by an Orc from above on the Mountain, and he passed out. With the support of the Giant Eagles, the battle turned back against the Orcs. Then Beorn himself arrived at the battle, apparently having heard news that a large army of Orcs was on the move. This time he did not appear in his former shape of a giant Man, but had changed his skin to that of a gigantic Bear. Beorn drove through the Orc lines, but paused to carry the wounded Thorin out of the battle with his paw. Beorn then returned to the battle with even greater wrath and smashed the ranks of the Bodyguard of Bolg, ultimately killing Bolg himself. The Orcs eventually panicked and scattered, to be picked off by hunting forces from the victors later. In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, the eagles were immense flying birds that were sentient, and could speak. ... Beorn is also a genus of extinct tardigrades, see Beorn leggi In J. R. R. Tolkiens fictional universe of Middle-earth, Beorn was a skin-changer, a man who could assume the appearance of a great black bear. ... Genera Ailuropoda Ursus Tremarctos Arctodus(extinct) A bear is a very large mammal of the order Carnivora, family Ursidae. ...

Thorin II Oakenshield had been mortally wounded on the field, and his nephews Fili and Kili died defending him as he lay on the ground. Thorin died soon after the battle, after meeting Bilbo one last time. See Fíli and Kíli for the Dwarves appearing in The Hobbit. ... Fíli and Kíli are fictional characters in The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien. ...

After defeating the Orcs and Wargs, the victors divided the treasure. Bard took Bilbo's fourteenth share of the gold and silver in return for the Arkenstone, whereupon he shared his reward with the Master of Lake-town and gave the Elven-king Thranduil the emeralds of Girion. Bilbo, despite having forfeited his share, was offered a rich reward, but, anticipating difficulty transporting the load back home, refused to take more than two small chests of gold and silver. Bilbo Baggins is the central character in the J. R. R. Tolkien novel The Hobbit, and a minor character in its sequel, The Lord of the Rings. ... The Arkenstone (or Heart of the Mountain) of Thrain was a wondrous gem sought by Thorin Oakenshield in J. R. R. Tolkiens The Hobbit. ... Master of the Lake-town in J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle-earth is the title given to the civic leader of the settlement of Men on the Long Lake near Erebor. ... King Thranduil was a character in the fictitious world of Middle-earth created by J. R. R. Tolkien. ... Girion is a fictional character from J. R. R. Tolkiens Middle-earth legendarium, mentioned briefly in The Hobbit. ... General Name, Symbol, Number gold, Au, 79 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 6, d Appearance metallic yellow Atomic mass 196. ... General Name, Symbol, Number silver, Ag, 47 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 5, d Appearance lustrous white metal Atomic mass 107. ...