Dori

Dori was a Dwarf of Durin's Folk, who along with his brothers Nori and Ori travelled with Bilbo Baggins as a member of Thorin and Company on the The Quest for Erebor to reclaim the Lonely Mountain from the Dragon Smaug

Dori was one of the Dwarves at Bag End who was blunting the knives and bending the forks. He was described as “decent fellow despite his grumbling”. He is often wearing a red-violet coat while on The Quest for Erebor. Dori is shown often mothering his younger brother Ori. It was said by Mark Hadlow Dori’s actor that Nori drives him mad. (In book only) and The Hobbit flims Dori is the strongest member of the company. Dori is often helping Bilbo Baggins in dangerous situations. In the Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit Dori is one the few to interact much and speak.

Early Life
In TA 2827 Dori was born. He was the elder brother of Nori and Ori. Dori as a young Dwarf always mothered Ori. His young life was much more normal then some of the other members of the company like Thorin, Dwalin, and Balin.

Before The Quest of Erebor, Dori lived in Thorin's home in the northern Blue Mountains with his two brothers Nori and Ori. In TA 2941, Dori and his two brothers became part of Thorin and Company befriending Bilbo Baggins and travel with him in search of Smaug's treasure caverns in the Lonely Mountain.

Quest for Erebor
It fell to Dori to carry Bilbo Baggins in the tunnels of the Misty Mountains during the escape from the Goblins, but Dori dropped Bilbo, and the other Dwarves and Gandalf blamed him for "losing their burglar." Later, during their escape from the Wargs and Orcs, Dori helps Bilbo climb up a tree to get away from the Wargs, Bilbo grabbed Dori's legs as they were swooped away by the Great Eagles of their eyrie in the Misty Mountains.

Later Life
Dori fought in and survived the Battle of the Five Armies and returned to the Lonely Mountain realm where he established himself and grew rich with his brother Nori. He survived up until the time of the Council of Elrond and the War of the Ring but his exact death date is unknown. .

Peter Jackson's The Hobbit


In The Hobbit Film Trilogy by Peter Jackson, Dori is played by Mark Hadlow.

The studio has given this description of the character in the trilogy:

"A distant relative of Thorin Oakenshield, Dori is the eldest amongst his brothers Ori and Nori. He is the strongest in The Company of Dwarves, and spends much of his time watching out for Ori, making sure he hasn’t caught a chill or gotten himself killed by Wargs or Goblins. Eternally pessimistic, with a natural tendency to expect the worst, Dori is nonetheless quite prepared to risk life and limb in order to get the job done."

In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey: A Visual Companion, writer Jude Fisher describes Dori as fancying himself as something of a sophisticate, with a liking for good wine, beautiful jewelry, and fine clothes; the rest of the company see him as a dandy, as shown by the way he braids his beard into a silver case. Yet he is still one of the most formidable fighters in the company with both his Dwarven sword and flail. After being caught by the wood elves in The Desolation of Smaug, Dori and the rest of the company are stripped of their weapons and he later receives a human longsword from the Laketown armory.

In The Desolation of Smaug, as the Company entered Beorn's house, Dori tells Ori to stay away from the door, and then says: "It's not natural. None of it." This is the exact same quote as Samwise Gamgee said to Frodo Baggins after climbing down their Elvish rope in the beginning of the film adaptation of The Two Towers.

Rankin/Bass
In Rankin/Bass' adaptation of The Hobbit, Dori is voiced by John Stephenson. (The Hobbit (Animated, 1977))

Radio
In The Hobbit (1968 radio series), Dori is voiced by Alexander John.

Video games
In 2003 video game, The Hobbit, Dori was shown as having a long brown beard without mustache.

In The Lord of the Rings Online, Dori was a non-playable character first met in the Blue Mountains. Sometime before the War of the Ring, he was one of the Dwarves who participated in Dwalin's expedition to the Dourhands' lands, south of Thorin's Halls. Two years later, he was overseeing a mining business in North Downs when he got caught up and had to be rescued.

In Lego, The Hobbit he is in the Fall of Erebor level as a young Dwarf, to make the level playable by 2 players.