943goblins_at_the_mountains

A bard speaks:

"We, elves, do call them the Hithaeglir, to those the men call the
Misty Mountains.

"Many stories have been told about these mountains, for great realms
there florished, and vanished. The greatest realm of the Naugrim, the
dwarves, that ever was seen under the clouds of Manwe: Hadhodrond,
Hall of the Hadhod, which is how they call themselves.

"Near Hadhodrond there came to be one great realm, the last great
realm of the Noldor, since the fall of Beleriand, under the waters of
the end of the First Age of the Sun and the Moon: Eregion, Hollin, as
the men would call, and still, maybe, in their short memory, recall.

"But a darkness appeared, and dwelt among the smiths of Celebrimbor
the King, as though the curse of Feanor were still on his shoulders,
and the evil Gorthaur, that we now call Sauron, came under subtle
disguised among our people, and deceived us.

"Many of the works of then were imprisoned by his evil genious. Only
three rings were saved.

"The two realms fell, and the great halls of Hadhodrond, into which
even the feet of many great noldorin lords have been set, came to be
Moria, the Dark Abyss, inhabited by treacherous creatures, the orcs
of the mountains.

"For many years, some great evil kings have ruled such creatures. The
last two were the Great Goblin, and Bolg.

"The Great Goblin was killed by the blade of Glamdring, by the hands
of Mithrandir, our ally, messenger from the West, that came together
with his fours cousins, of whom we know only two to have remained in
Eriador.

"Bolg, was killed in the days of the quest for Erebor, now a
flourishing realm of the Hadhod, in the east, in the days of the fall
of Smaug the Red, as our friend and guest, Bilbo Baggins, is used to
tell us. Bolg was killed by then, by the not so cordial embrace of a
lord of Rhovanion, called Beorn, by many.

"(Some of these things can be found in the book 'There and Back
Again, a Hobbit's Tale', by one of this house's guests, who would be
ashamed to be mentioned, just now, once he is present..."