Although it is lovely obviously defined that Thorin’s basic quest is to reclaim his place of birth, the dominion beneath the Lonely Mountain referred to as Erebor, “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” rushes the reason of the map he is inherited from his grandfather that can lend a hand him accomplish this. They take the map to Elrond in Rivendell, who occurs to uncover “moon writing” runes on it. Written by means of Thorin’s grandfather Thror beneath a “silver wide crescent” moon, they are able to simplest be learn beneath the very same prerequisites. Thankfully, there may be simply any such moon on that very same night time, within the mom of all coincidences.
With this astounding good fortune, the runes expose that on “Durin’s Day” (necessarily the final day of fall at the Dwarvish calendar), the final gentle of sundown will light up the keyhole of a secret door, so long as you might be additionally status “by means of the gray stone when the thrush knocks.” How Thorin’s grandfather knew that the bearer of the map may inform one gray stone from some other, or {that a} thrush would knock at simply the correct second, is unclear. It is also a little complicated why Elrond had to decode this knowledge when the map got here from Thorin’s personal circle of relatives. To be honest, it is been a busy couple of centuries of vagrancy for all of the dwarves of Erebor, so this knowledge can have been scattered to the wind.
