Girion

Girion was the last Lord of Dale.

Biography
On TA 2770, he was killed by the dragon Smaug when Smaug assaulted Dale and the neighboring Dwarven realm of Lonely Mountain (Erebor). However, his wife (name unknown) escaped. One-hundred and seventy-four years later, Bard, Girion's descendant, took revenge on the dragon, slaying him by shooting an arrow into a small gap in the old dragon's scales, which was the only vulnerable spot in his body.

It is also mentioned in The Hobbit that Girion had owned a necklace of five hundred emeralds, later found among the treasures hoarded by Smaug in the Lonely Mountain.

The Hobbit film trilogy
In the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, and in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Girion is portrayed by Luke Evans, who also plays his descendant Bard. A flashback shows how Girion attempted to slay Smaug using black arrows fired from a mounted windlass crossbow, but all his shots bounced harmlessly off the dragon's armour, all except for one, which broke off one of the dragon's scales. Unfortunately, Girion perished before the final arrow could be fired. The last arrow was kept by his descendant Bard, who secretly hid it should Smaug awaken and attack Laketown once more.

It should be noted that the depiction by Peter Jackson of Lord Girion or Bard the Bowman using a ballista is purely fan fiction and in no way derived from The Hobbit. The film contends that Lord Girion knocked a scale of Smaug's armor loose. As noted by Christopher Orr in a review in The Atlantic, the film is bad fan fiction which clearly departs from the book.

In the books

 * The Hobbit (First mentioned)

In the films

 * The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (First appearance, extended edition only)
 * The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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