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The Front Gate was the main gate of the Lonely Mountain, the Dwarven realm of Erebor. Close to this entrance was the Dwarven King Thrór's vast chamber.[1]

The entrance was at the head of the valley shaped by the two southern rock ridges that protruded from the Lonely Mountain's southern slopes.[2] The stream that formed into the River Running sprung forth from the gateway.

A stone path led through the Gate, spacious enough for many Dwarves to walk abreast. The Gate itself was a tall arch, originally with detailed craftsmanship upon it, but later battered, weakened, and darkened during Smaug's residency in the mountain. A view of Dale (a city of Northmen located directly outside Erebor) was seen from the Gate.[2]

History[]

Inside Erebor gate

Inside of the Front Gate, shortly before Smaug's arrival, as seen in The Hobbit films

Smaug, blinded by his love of gold, descended upon the Lonely Mountain in the year TA 2770 and penetrated the Front Gate, destroying it due to his sheer size.[3] The greedy dragon had destroyed and blocked all of the mountain's other gates (except the hidden Side-door), leaving only the massive hole (where the Front Gate once stood) solely for himself to use.[4]

Thorin and company entered the mountain through the Side-door and exited through the Front Gate, unaware of Smaug's fate. When the Dwarves were informed of the slaying of Smaug by Bard of Lake-town in TA 2941, they returned to the mountain and constructed a high, thick wall of squared stones to act as the new Front Gate.[3][4] While Thorin waited for the arrival of his cousin, Dáin Ironfoot, Lord of the Iron Hills, this newly formed barrier allowed Thorin and his company to fend off the Elves of the Woodland Realm as well as the Lake-men. However, the goblins of Bolg appeared shortly after Dáin's arrival, and thus the Battle of Five Armies began. Thorin and his fellow Dwarves charged into the battle amid the fighting of the armies, pushing the Front Gate wall to collapse outwards.[5] After the battle, Bilbo Baggins said his goodbyes to the remaining Dwarves at the Front Gate before leaving homeward.[6]

Seventy eight years later, Dáin II was slain in the Battle of Dale at the Front Gate during the War of the Ring while guarding the body of the fallen King of Dale, Brand. His courage, however, saved countless lives, as mentioned by Gandalf later on.[7]

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Afrikaans Voorste hek
Albanian Porta e përparme
Amharic የፊት በር
Arabic البوابة الأمامية
Armenian Առջեւի դարպասը
Azerbaijani Ön qapılar
Belarusian Cyrillic Пярэднія вароты
Bengali সামনের দরজা
Bosnian Prednja vrata
Bulgarian Cyrillic Предна врата
Cambodian ច្រកខាងមុខ
Catalan Porta davantera
Cebuano Atubangan nga ganghaan
Chinese 前门
Cornish Yet A-rag
Croatian Prednja vrata
Czech Hlavní vchod
Danish Hovedporten
Dutch Voorstepoort
Esperanto Antaŭa pordego
Estonian Eesmine värav
Faroese Forsíðaportur
Fijian E liu na matamata
Finnish Pääportti
French Porte d'entrée
Galician Porta da fronte
Georgian წინა კარიბჭე
German Eingangstor
Greek Μπροστινή Πύλη
Gujarati આગળનો દરવાજો
Haitian Creole Devan pòtay
Hausa Gaban ƙofar
Hebrew שער קדמי
Hindi फ्रंट गेट
Hmong Pem hauv ntej rooj vag
Hungarian Bejárati kapu
Icelandic Framhliðið
Indonesian Pintu depan
Irish Gaelic Geata Tosaigh
Japanese フロントゲート
Kannada ಮುಂಭಾಗದ ಗೇಟ್
Kazakh Алғы қақпа (Cyrillic) Alğı qaqpa (Latin)
Korean 정문
Kurdish Deriyê pêşiyê (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Алдыңкы дарбаза
Laotian ປະຕູທາງຫນ້າ
Latin Ante Portam
Latvian Priekšējie vartų
Lithuanian Priekiniai vartai
Luxembourgish Virportal
Macedonian Cyrillic Предна порта
Malagasy Varavarana Fidirana
Malayalam ഫ്രണ്ട് ഗേറ്റ്
Malaysian Pintu hadapan
Maltese Bieb ta 'quddiem
Manx Giat Toshee
Maori Ko te kuwaha mua
Marathi समोर गेट
Mongolian Cyrillic Урд хаалга
Nepalese अगाडिको फाटक
Norwegian Hovedinngang
Old English Foran Dor
Pashto مخکې دروازه
Persian درب جلویی
Portuguese Portão da frente
Punjabi ਫਰੰਟ ਗੇਟ
Romanian Poarta din fata
Russian Передние ворота
Serbian Предњи улаз (Cyrillic) Prednji ulaz (Latin)
Sindhi سامهون واري دروازي
Sinhalese ඉදිරිපස ගේට්ටුව
Slovak Hlavný vchod
Slovenian Sprednja vrata
Somalian Albaabka hore
Spanish Puerta de delantera
Sundanese Gerbang hareup
Swahili Mlango wa mbele
Swedish Främreport
Tajik Cyrillic Дарвоза пеш
Tamil முன் வாயில்
Telugu ఫ్రంట్ గేట్
Thai ประตูหน้า
Turkish Ön kapı
Ukrainian Cyrillic фронту ворота
Urdu فرنٹ گیٹ
Uzbek Олдинги эшик (Cyrillic) Oldingi eshik (Latin)
Vietnamese Cổng trước
Welsh Giât flaen
Yiddish פאָרנט טויער
Yucatec Maya Joolnajo' delantera

References[]

  1. The Hobbit, "Thrór's Map"
  2. 2.0 2.1 The Hobbit, Chapter XIII: "Not At Home"
  3. 3.0 3.1 The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, The Tale of Years, "The Third Age"
  4. 4.0 4.1 The Hobbit, Chapter XV: "The Gathering of the Clouds"
  5. The Hobbit, Chapter XVII: "The Clouds Burst"
  6. The Hobbit, Chapter XVIII: "The Return Journey"
  7. The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B, The Tale of Years, "The Great Years"
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