Dwarves are renowned for their achievements in underground mining. Which subterranean facility beneath the Misty Mountains was the greatest kingdom ever built by dwarves?
Gollum, the former hobbit who became corrupted and monstrous under the influence of the Ring, was partly based on Grendel from the Anglo-Saxon epic, Beowulf. Tolkien, a studied philologist, had written a translation of Beowulf from Old English.