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Thrush

A thrush cracking snails at the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Thrushes were slender, small-to-medium sized birds known for their harmonious songs.

History[]

The thrush outside the Lonely Mountain's Side-door was said to have belonged to an ancient breed known by Thorin's ancestors. The Men of Dale were able to understand their speech as thrushes served the men as messengers.[1] Bilbo Baggins was skeptical that any of the Lake-men still spoke the thrush language, but this was proven wrong when one thrush told Bard the Bowman of Smaug's only weak spot, during Lake-town's destruction, enabling Bard to kill the dragon.[2]

In adaptations[]

A thrush appears at the end of the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), flying towards the Lonely Mountain. It begins tapping a snail shell against the side of the mountain, and the echoing of the tapping is heard all the way into the treasure room, causing Smaug to awaken.

The thrush is seen again outside of the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug during the Side-door's opening.

Translations[]

Foreign Language Translated name
Afrikaans Lysters
Albanian Mëllenjë
Arabic سمنة
Armenian Կեռնեխ
Azerbaijani Qaratoyuqlar
Bashkir Барҡылдаҡтар
Basque Turdidae
Belarusian Cyrillic дразды
Bengali থ্রাস
Bosnian Drozd
Breton Turdidae
Bulgarian Cyrillic Млечница
Catalan Túrdid
Cebuano Turdidae
Chinese 鸫科
Chuvash Сĕлхе йышшисем
Croatian Drozd
Czech Drozdovití
Danish Drosler
Dutch Lijsters
Esperanto Turdedoj
Estonian Rästaslased
Faroese Trøstur
Finnish Rastas
French Turdidae
Galician Túrdidos
Georgian შაშვისებრნი
German Drossel
Greek Τσίχλα
Gujarati થ્રશ
Hebrew קיכליים
Hindi छाले
Hungarian Rigófélék
Icelandic Þrestir
Ido Turdo
Irish Gaelic Smólach
Italian Turdidae
Japanese ツグミ科
Kabardian Бзугъуабжэ лъэпкъыр
Kazakh Сайрақ тұқымдасы (Cyrillic) Sayraq tuqımdası (Latin)
Korean 개똥지빠귀과
Kyrgyz Cyrillic Таркылдак сымалдуулар
Latin Turdidae
Latvian Strazds
Lithuanian Strazdiniai
Macedonian Cyrillic Дрза
Marathi झटकून टाका
Northern Frisian Trooseln
Norwegian Troster
Persian توکایان
Polish Drozdowate
Portuguese Turdidae
Romanian Turdidae
Russian Дроздовые
Scots Throstle
Serbian Дрозд (Cyrillic) Drozd (Latin)
Slovak Drozd
Slovenian Drozgi
South Azerbaijani قاراتویوقلار
Spanish Turdidae
Swahili Mkesha
Swedish Trast
Tajik Cyrillic Дуҷиҳо
Tamil பாடும் பறவை
Telugu త్రష్
Thai วงศ์นกเดินดง
Turkish Karatavukgiller
Ukrainian Cyrillic Дроздові
Uzbek Чақшақлар (Cyrillic) Shaqshaqlar (Latin)
Vietnamese Họ Hoét
Western Frisian Lysterfûgels
Yiddish טרוש

References[]

  1. The Hobbit, Chapter XII: "Inside Information"
  2. The Hobbit, Chapter XIV: "Fire and Water"
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