Dwalin

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75.150.229.22: /* Portrayal in Adaptations */ carl hague plays dwalin in the 1979 Mind's Eye version of the Hobbit

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| image=[[Image:Angelo Montanini - Dwalin.jpg|250px]]
| name=Dwalin
| othernames=
| life=[[Third Age 2772|T.A. 2772]] - [[Fourth Age 91|Fo.A. 91]]
| realm= [[Thorin's Halls]], [[Erebor]]
| parentage=[[Fundin]]
| lineage=[[Durin's line]]
| hood=Green
| gender=Male
|}}

'''Dwalin''' was a Dwarf of the [[Blue Mountains]] and later [[Erebor]]. He was the son of [[Fundin]] and younger brother of [[Balin]]. He was one of [[Thorin and Company]].
==History==
=== King Thráin's Expedition===
Dwalin accompanied King [[Thráin II]] with a few others including his brother Balin, on the king's attempt to reclaim Erebor; but the king wandered off one night at the eves of [[Mirkwood]] and his company looked everywhere for him but they did not know that he was captured by the servants of [[Sauron]] and taken to the dungeons of [[Dol Guldur]]. So the company headed back to the northern [[Ered Luin]]; where Thráin had previously established a new kingdom and was now ruled by his son [[Thorin]].

=== [[Quest of Erebor]] ===

Decades after Thráin's disappearance, Thorin and his people were doing well in their new home, but ever they remembered [[Erebor]], and their treasure. When the king -by the advise of the wizard [[Gandalf]]- decided to reclaim Erebor, he called together a small company of his kin and followers to join him. Dwalin was one of these. Along with Balin, Dwalin set off with eleven other Dwarves and one Hobbit to the Lonely mountain of Erebor.

Dwalin supposedly died in [[Fourth Age 91]] at the age of 340, very old even for a Dwarf.

== Genealogy ==
Dwalin was of Durin's line.<ref>{{HM|AA}}, "Durin's Folk"</ref>
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==Etymology==
In Norse mythology, ''Dvalinn'' is a chief Dwarf.<ref>Snorri Sturlusson, ''Edda'', "[[wikipedia:Skaldskaparmal|Skaldskaparmal]]"</ref> The origin of the name is uncertain; suggested etymologies are "one lying in a trance",<ref>[[Ruth S. Noel]], ''[[The Languages of Tolkien's Middle-earth]]'', page 32</ref> "numb" and "dawdler".<ref>Henry A. Bellows (ed.), ''Völuspá'', "[http://cybersamurai.net/Mythology/nordic_gods/LegendsSagas/Edda/PoeticEdda/Voluspo.htm Poetic Edda]"</ref> Both words, ''dvalen'' ("to sleep")''dvelja'' ("to delay") derive from the same root.<ref>Chester Nathan Gould, "Dwarf-Names: A Study in Old Icelandic Religion", published in ''Publications of the Modern Language Association of America'', Vol 44 (1929), issue #4, pp. 939-967</ref>

==Portrayal in Adaptations ==
[[Image:The Hobbit (2003) Dwalin.JPG|thumb|200px|right|''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)]]'']]
'''1968: ''[[The Hobbit (1968 radio series)]]'':'''
:[[Lockwood West]] plays the role of Dwalin.

'''1977: ''[[The Hobbit (1977 film)]]'':'''
:The part of Dwalin was voiced by [[Paul Frees]]. He does not have a blue beard, but a white one.

'''1979: ''[[The Hobbit (1979 radio series)]]'':'''
:[[Carl Hague]] is uncredited as the voice of Dwalin.

'''1982: ''[[The Hobbit (1982 video game)]]'':'''
:Dwalin is omitted; Thorin is the only companion of the player, [[Bilbo Baggins]].<ref>''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/showmag.cgi?mag=ZXComputing/Issue8304/Pages/ZXComputing830400076.jpg ZX Computing]'', 8304 (April/May 1983), p. 76, accessed [[24 April|April 24]] [[2011]]</ref>

'''2003: ''[[The Hobbit (2003 video game)]]'':'''
:Dwalin is a blue-bearded Dwarf, who is not seen in the game (other than cut-scenes) until [[Lake-town]].

'''2007: ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'':'''
:Dwalin is a non-playable character who is king of [[Thorin's Halls|Thorin's Hall]]. The player can find him sitting on a throne north of the gates into Thorin's Hall.

'''2012-3: ''[[The Hobbit films]]'':'''
:Dwalin will be played by [[Graham McTavish]].

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