Beorn

Beorn was a Northman, and a Beorning chieftain. The people of Beorn once inhabited the North of the Anduin valley between the Misty Mountains and Mirkwood during the last centuries of the Third Age. They guarded the Ford of Carrock from the Orcs and Wargs.

Beorn was a berserker warrior, with great strength, who could turn in a great black bear. In human form, he appears as a tall, black-haired man with huge arms and a great beard.

Beorn provided shelter to Thorin Oakenshield and his company of Dwarves (12 others), Hobbit (Bilbo Baggins), and Wizard (Gandalf), and later helped them to fight against an army of Orcs at the Battle of Five Armies (Third Age: 2941).

Beorn's son Grimbeorn eventually took over his duties as chieftain (Third Age: 3018).