In J. R. R. Tolkien 's Middle- earth legendarium, the Lonely Mountain is a mountain in the north of Wilderland. It is the source of the Celduin River, and the location of the Kingdom under the Mountain. The town of Dale lies in a vale on its southern slopes.
The mountain is called Erebor in Sindarin (one of the languages devised by Tolkien). This name, a translation of "Lonely Mountain ", does not appear in The Hobbit, where the mountain is called by the English name throughout, or simply the Mountain. In The Lord of the Rings, the name "Erebor" occurs only once in the main narrative text: in chapter 9, book V of The Return of the King ("The Last Debate"); it is also found once in the Prologue, in the summary of The Hobbit.
The Lonely Mountain is the goal of the protagonists in The Hobbit, and the scene of the climax. The story of The Hobbit is sometimes referred to as the Quest of Erebor.
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Natural history
Erebor stood hundreds of miles from the nearest mountain range. Tolkien's rendering of Thrór's map in The Hobbit shows the mountain with six ridges stretching out from a central peak that was snowcapped well into spring.
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