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Mirkwood Merceneries
Retired [R] Wood Elf

The Silvan Elves of Mirkwood are described as distrustful of Dwarves, but friendly to Men, with whom they trade. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins has to rescue the Dwarves of Thorin Oakenshield's company from these Elves. Later in the book they are one of the Five Armies in the Battle of Five Armies.

Legolas of the Fellowship of the Ring, although he lived among them and presented himself as one of the Silvan folk in The Lord of the Rings, was not one of them. As a son of the Elven-king Thranduil, who had originally come from Doriath, Legolas was actually a Sindarin Elf.

Battle of Five Armies

The Battle of Five Armies, depicted in The Hobbit, was fought by the Goblins and the Wargs of Moria, Gundabad and the Misty Mountains against the Men of the Long Lake, the Elves of Mirkwood, the Dwarves on and near the Lonely Mountain and the great Eagles of the Misty Mountains. The hobbit Bilbo Baggins, the wizard Gandalf the Grey, and Beorn, are important characters involved.

Smaug was a dragon who had destroyed the dwarven kingdom of Erebor, below the Lonely Mountain (Sindarin Erebor), and the neighbouring wealthy town of Dale many years before, driving Thorin II Oakenshield, heir of Durin, into exile. Smaug stole all the treasure of Erebor and Dale, gathering it into a deep chamber under the Mountain, where he lived thereafter.

Prior to the battle, Esgaroth, the town of the Men of the Long Lake, was attacked by Smaug, who had discovered Thorin's secret expedition, and had found out who had aided them — the Men of the Long Lake. Bard the Bowman, the heir of the Lords of Dale, killed the dragon. However, the town was destroyed in the process.

The Wood elves learned that Smaug was dead, and wanted a share of the ancient dwarves' treasure. Hearing of the Lake men's trouble, they changed course and left supplies there. The Men of the Long Lake who were still unharmed marched with the Elves north to the Mountain, because some of the treasure belonged to Bard, and because they wanted compensation for their losses. However, Thorin refused them any treasure.

Thorin's company was then trapped in a bloodless siege, with Thranduil, King of Mirkwood, and Bard hoping to wait him out. However, Thorin had sent messages of his plight to his relatives using talking messenger Ravens that lived on the Lonely Mountain. These reached Dáin II Ironfoot of the nearby Iron Hills, and he marched to Erebor with over 500 heavily armed dwarves, most of them skilled veterans of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs. When Dáin's forces arrived, battle was almost joined between the two sides but at the last moment Gandalf intervened between the two and revealed that while they were bickering amongst themselves, the Goblins of the Misty Mountains and Grey Mountains under Bolg were using the opportunity to march against them. They had been incited by Gandalf's earlier slaying of the Great Goblin, but had now mobilized for a full-scale attack after hearing news of the death of the Dragon and the now relatively unguarded treasure hoard.

The three commanders agreed that the Goblins were the enemies of all, and previous grievances between them were put on hold in face of the greater threat. They arranged their forces on the two spurs of the Mountain that lined the valley leading to the now-sealed off great gate; the only entrance to the Mountain. The Dwarves and Lake-men formed up on one spur and the Elves on the other, while a light rear-guard lined across the mouth of the valley to lure the Goblins between the two, and thus destroy them. Bilbo Baggins hid himself with his ring, hoping to avoid the battle.

Soon the Goblins and Wargs arrived, and at first the plan worked: they were lured into the choke point by a thin line of men of Lake-town and took heavy losses. However, due to their inferior numbers, the allied Free Folk did not hold the advantage long. The second wave of Goblins and Wargs was even worse than the first, and now many Goblins scaled the mountain from the opposite side, attacking the arrayed forces from above and behind as the main wave pressed forward. The battle raged across the Mountain. Then a great noise was heard: Thorin and his 12 Dwarf companions inside the mountain had thrown down the stone wall they had erected across the mouth of the gates, killing many Goblins. Thorin and his companions then charged out to join the battle, covered from head to toe in the finest armour and weapons contained in the treasure hoard of Erebor. Thorin advanced through the Goblins' ranks all the way up to the gigantic Goblins that formed the bodyguard of Bolg, whom he could not get past. He was outflanked and surrounded, and was forced to form his troops into a great circle.

As the battle was turning fully against the Free Folk, a large force of Eagles of the Misty Mountains arrived, led by the Lord of the Eagles. Bilbo was the first to spot their entrance on the scene and began shouting that "the Eagles are coming!", a shout that was then continued among the other troops of the Free Folk. At this point Bilbo was knocked in the head by a large stone thrown by a goblin from above, and he passed out. With the support of the Eagles, who cast down the goblins from the mountain itself, the Free Folk were freed to fight on just one front in the valley rather than have to divide themselves, the battle turned back against the Goblins. Then Beorn himself arrived at the battle, apparently having heard news that a large army of Goblins was on the move. This time he did not appear in his former shape of a large Man, but had changed his skin to that of a huge bear. Beorn drove through the Goblin lines, but paused to carry the wounded Thorin out of the battle with his paw. Beorn then returned to the battle, his wrath redoubled, and smashed the ranks of the bodyguard of Bolg, pulling down that great goblin and crushing him in ruin before the Goblin horde. The Goblins then panicked and scattered, to be picked off by hunting forces from the victors.

Thorin had been mortally wounded on the field, and his nephews Fíli and Kíli died defending him as he lay on the ground. Thorin died soon after the battle, after meeting Bilbo one last time.

After defeating the Goblins and Wargs, the victors divided the treasure. Bard took Bilbo's fourteenth share of the gold and silver in return for the Arkenstone, whereupon he shared his reward with the Master of Lake-town and gave the Elven-king Thranduil the emeralds of Girion. Bilbo, despite having forfeited his share, was offered the richest reward for helping the other dwarves of the expedition out of many dangers, but, anticipating difficulty transporting the load back home, and not being too fond of treasure, refused to take more than two small chests of gold and silver and his small suit of mithril chainmail.

The battle is featured in the animated version of The Hobbit, where many more of Thorin's company die.

TSR, Inc. released two editions of a war-game based on "The Battle of Five Armies," designed by Larry Smith in the 1970s using cardboard tokens and a map of the area around the Lonely Mountain as a game area. The game was criticized for a lack of clarity in the rules, and praised for evoking the onslaught of the Warg and Goblin army.[25]

In 1985 by Iron Crown Enterprises in 1985 released their version of The Battle of Five Armies[26] developed by Richard H. Britton, Coleman Charlton, and John Crowell, again taking the theme of a wargame and using card counters and a paper map.

The multi-Origin Award-winning Middle-earth Strategic Gaming (formerly Middle-earth Play-by-Mail) uses the Battle of Five Armies as an introductory scenario to the full game and includes characters and armies from the book.[27]

In 2005, Games Workshop released a Battle of Five Armies tabletop wargame, designed by Rick Priestley using highly detailed 10 mm figures sculpted by Mark Harrison, based on Games Workshop's Warmaster rules and designed for the home player.[28][29]

The Battle will serve as the climax of The Hobbit film adaptations.[citation needed]
New Team Page Beta
Player Ma St Ag Av Skills Inj G Cp Td It Cs Mvp SPP Cost  
1
Legolas of Mirkwood
Wardancer
8 3 4 7
Block, Dodge, Leap
Side Step
   3 0 1 0 0 1 8/ 140k
(120+20)k
  
2
Luthien Tinuviel
Catcher
8 2 4 7
Catch, Dodge, Sprint
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 90k
(90+0)k
  
3
Gildor Inglorion
Catcher
8 2 4 7
Catch, Dodge, Sprint
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 90k
(90+0)k
  
4
Rumil of Lorien
Lineman
7 3 4 7   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 70k
(70+0)k
  
5
Gil-galad (ereinion)
Catcher
8 2 4 7
Catch, Dodge, Sprint
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 90k
(90+0)k
  
6
Finrod Felagund
Lineman
7 3 4 7 m 3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 70k
(0)k
  
7
Denethor of mordor
Thrower
7 3 4 7
Pass
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 90k
(90+0)k
  
8
Argon Nacnar
Catcher
8 2 4 7
Catch, Dodge, Sprint
Diving Catch
   3 0 0 0 0 2 10/ 110k
(90+20)k
  
9
Zelphar Vandiir
Thrower
7 3 4 7
Pass
   3 3 0 0 0 0 3/ 90k
(90+0)k
  
10
Beleg Talandrin
Lineman
7 3 4 7 n 2 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 70k
(70+0)k
  
11
Aragon King of Men
Lineman
7 3 4 7   0 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 70k
(70+0)k
  
16
Elrond of Rivendell
Wardancer
8 3 4 7
Block, Dodge, Leap
   3 0 0 0 0 0 0/ 120k
(120+0)k
  
11 players (+1 player missing next game)  
Coach: army2willis Re-Rolls (100k): 0  
Race: Wood Elf Fan Factor: 1  
Current Team Value: 1100k (±170) Assistant Coaches: 0  
Treasury: 0k Cheerleaders: 1  
Team Value: 1170k Apothecary: Yes  

Games Played:3 (0/0/3) |TD Diff:-7 (1 - 8) |Cas Diff:-8 (0/0/0 - 6/2/0)
Last Opponent: Sflekrad
Opponent#RecordTDCasTV
 W/D/LAvgAvgAvg diff
Dark Elf20/0/20.5-3.00.0   0.0   0.0-2.0   1.0   0.0-30k
Dwarf10/0/10.0-2.00.0   0.0   0.0-2.0   0.0   0.0-10k
Total30/0/30.3-2.70.0   0.0   0.0-2.0   0.7   0.0-23k