Dáin II

Dáin II Ironfoot (or King Dáin), the son of Náin and great-grandson of Dáin I of Durin's Folk. He was a Dwarven King of Durin's Folk, the fifth King under the Mountain, and the Lord of the Iron Hills during the War of the Ring in Middle-earth.
== Biography ==
=== War of the Dwarves and Orcs ===
Dáin followed his grandfather, Grór, in lordship after Náin was killed by the great Orc chieftain Azog during the Battle of Azanulbizar, the final conflict in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, before he could inherit the lordship. Almost immediately after the death of Náin, Dáin rushed up the steps and slew Azog himself with a single blow of his axe, thus avenging his father's death. He was a very young Dwarf at the time, being only thirty-two years of age: by the Dwarves reckoning, he was still a stripling. Dáin's feat was heralded as a magnificent and glorious triumph for one so young. Dáin alone looked past the gate into Moria, and had the wisdom to know that it was impossible for the Dwarves to return while Durin's Bane yet lived.
=== The Battle of Five Armies ===
Dáin was the friend and cousin of Thorin II Oakenshield, and responded to Thorin's call for help during the quest to reclaim the Lonely Mountain.The Hobbit, Chapter XV: "The Gathering of the Clouds" Dáin marched with five hundred Dwarven soldiers, exceptionally strong even by Dwarven standards, clad in heavy chainmail and iron boots, and armed with mattocks, shields, and swords. He arrived just in time for the Battle of Five Armies.The Hobbit, Chapter XVII: "The Clouds Burst" With Thorin's death in the battle, Dáin became King of Durin's Folk and King under the Mountain, the first not of the main line. After the battle, Dáin thanked the Great Eagles for their timely intervention, crowning their chief with gold and swearing the Dwarves to everlasting friendship with them. He also honored Thorin's commitments to Bard the Bowman and Bilbo Baggins, giving a fourteenth share of the Mountain's treasure to the people of Lake-town, and promising an even greater share to Bilbo, who politely declined to take more than two small chests, filled with silver and gold. Dáin also granted the emeralds of Girion to King Thranduil, who prized them greatly.The Hobbit, Chapter XVIII: "The Return Journey"
===The War of the Ring===
Dáin was a wise and just leader, and brought much wealth to the mountain realm and was on good terms with the Men of Dale to the south and the Elven king of Northern Mirkwood as well, which ensured peace for many years to come. When Balin and other Dwarves decided to reclaim Moria, Dáin initially refused, but Balin insisted on going.The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Ring, Book Two, Chapter II: "The Council of Elrond"
A few months before the Council of Elrond, a messenger from Mordor appeared at the entrance of the Lonely Mountain and offered the Dwarves an alliance with Sauron, asking only in return that the Dwarves share what they knew "concerning Hobbits", and help to track down the One Ring, which the messenger described as "least of rings... a trifle that Sauron fancies."  The messenger said that, if the Dwarves could deliver the Ring itself, then Sauron would return three of the Rings of Power that originally belonged to the Dwarf-Lords, and Moria would be theirs to possess forever.  On the other hand, the messenger warned that "things will not seem so well" if the Dwarves did not help.Knowing from long and bitter experience that Sauron could not be trusted, Dáin refused to be bribed or blackmailed, and sent the messenger away without an answer by claiming that he needed time to think over the proposal. He instead sent Glóin to Rivendell to consult with Elrond, while Dáin prepared the Lonely Mountain for war.
===Death===
Dáin participated in the War of the Ring's northern campaign but was killed during the Battle of Dale in TA 3019, defending the body of King Brand of Dale before the gates of the Lonely Mountain. He was, by then, an extremely old Dwarf, at the age of two-hundred and fifty-two, but still strong for his age. He was still among the greatest of the Dwarven warriors, a direct descendant of Durin I and his prowess in battle was nearly unmatched.
After news of his death reached Minas Tirith, Gandalf remarked that, as saddened as they must be at Dáin's death, they should be glad that he died in battle, defending his friend's body, as well as amazed that he was still as formidable a warrior as he had been when he was a young dwarf:
:"I should call that a heavy loss, if it was not a wonder rather that in his great age he could still wield his axe as mightily as they say he did, standing over the body of King Brand before the gate of Erebor, until the darkness fell."
After his death during the war, his son, Thorin III Stonehelm, succeeded him.
==In adaptations==
===Rankin/Bass===
In the animated film The Hobbit, Dain is referenced by Thorin as the leader of the dwarf reinforcements arriving at Erebor from the Iron Hills, but is not seen in the film.
===The Hobbit film trilogy===
In the third volume of Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy, Dáin is portrayed by Scottish actor and comedian Billy Connolly. The character's history undergoes some drastic alteration, as the battle between him and Azog is instead combined with the account of how Thorin gained his surname, and results in Azog losing an arm below the elbow rather than perishing.
While the Lonely Mountain is under siege by a combined force of Mirkwood Elves and Men from the recently-destroyed Lake-town, Dain arrives at the head of an army of Dwarves from the Iron Hills. Gandalf explains to Bilbo Baggins that Dain and Thorin Oakinshield are cousins -and that Thorin is "The reasonable One"! Initially bent on attacking the elves, Dain wheels half of his army to fight against Azog's army when it appears on the field. The Dwarves quickly formed a phalanx, in which fight he is reluctantly joined by the elves.
As the Orcs force the tired Dwarves back towards the gate of Erebor, Thorin and his company charge out, prompting Dain to call for the Dwarves to rally to their King. The two cousins exchange hearty greetings on the battlefield, though Dain is not seen for the rest of the film.
In battle, he rides a wild boar and wields a war hammer. After he is thrown off of his boar and loses his helmet, he is shown to have bright red hair, worn in a Mohawk (similar to Dwalin's at the time of the Battle of Azanulbizar).
In the extended edition for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies his role is slightly expanded, with his army briefly engaging the Elves until the arrival of the Orcs. Unlike the book, Dain's army contained more than just heavily-armed infantry. In addition to having more than five hundred heavy infantry armed with spears, swords, axes, and shields, Dain's army contained a force of two hundred fifty Dwarves mounted on armored goats, five war chariots manned by four Dwarves each and pulled by teams of six rams, and nine heavy ballistae manned by crews of five Dwarves that fired javelins with spinning tails behind them (called "twirly-whirlies" by Dain). After the battle, he is crowned King under the Mountain. Although the extended edition of the third film does not reveal what happened afterwards, it is possible that he made good the promise his cousin Thorin made to the people of Esgaroth by giving them the gold that was owed to them. He may also have restored to Thranduil the necklace of white gems that Thror allegedly stole from the Elven-king years ago.
===Voice dubbing actors===
Foreign Language 	Voice dubbing artist
Portuguese (Brazil) (Television/DVD)	Élcio Romar
Spanish (Latin America) 	José Luis Orozco
Italian (Italy) 	Roberto Draghetti
French (France) 	Richard Leblond
Hungarian 	Károly Gesztesi
===Video games===
*Dáin appears in the real time strategy game The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earth II, fighting on the Dwarven faction as King Dáin. His great axe in the game is called Barazanthual, which was one of the finest weapons ever made by Dwarfdom and was rightly feared by all his enemies.
*In The Lord of the Rings Online, Dáin, along with King Brand of Dale, makes a brief appearance in the raid "Flight to the Lonely Mountain", where they brief the player before the assault of the Easterlings begin. After the conclusion of the Siege of Erebor, his tomb can be found in Mazal Akrâz, the "Chamber of Glory", nearby those of Fíli, Kili, and his cousin Thorin Oakenshield. The fates of Kings Dáin and Brand are somewhat of an oddity in the game. In the "Flight to the Lonely Mountain" raid, which is not part of the main storyline, King Brand stands alone at the water-crossing and is felled by enemy arrows, while Dáin escapes to the safety of Erebor where he dies alone before the gates. Later, during the main storyline of the game, the player hears this version of events from a dwarf and has the opportunity to correct him, noting that it is widely known that both Kings died together before the gates.
==Gallery==
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Dáin II Ystervoet
Albanian 	Dáin II Këmbë hekuri
Amharic 	ዓፄ ዳኢን የብረት እግር
Arabic 	ضاين الثاني الحديد القدم
Armenian 	Դաին II Արդուկ ոտքով
Azerbaijani 	II Dáin Dəmir ayağı
Basque 	Dáin II.a Burdinazko oina
Belarusian Cyrillic 	Даін II Жалеза для ног
Bengali 	দ্বিতীয় দাইন আয়রন পা
Bosnian 	Dáin II Gvozdena noga
Breton 	Dáin II Houarn Troad ?
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Дайн II Железоноги
Burmese 	ဒဲန္ ဒုတိယ၊ သံခြေသည်
Catalan 	Dáin II Peudeferro
Chinese (Hong Kong) 	丹恩二世·鐵足
Cornish 	Dáin II Ben Horn
Corsican 	Dáin II Ferru peda
Croatian 	Dáin II Željezna noga
Czech 	Dáin II Železná noha
Danish 	Dáin II Jernfod
Dutch 	Dáin II IJzervoet
Esperanto 	Dáin la 2-a Ferapiedo
Estonian 	Dáin II Raud jalg
Faroese 	Dáin II Jarnfótur
Finnish 	Dáin II Rautajalka
French 	Dáin II Pied d'Acier
Georgian 	დაინ II რკინისტერფი
German 	Dáin II Eisenfuß
Greek 	Δαιν Β΄ Σιδήρου πόδι
Gujarati 	બીજું ડેન આયર્ન પગ
Haitian Creole 	Dáin II Fè pye
Hebrew 	דאין אירונפוט
Hindi 	ड्ऐन द्वितीय, लौह पैर
Hungarian 	(II.) Vaslábú Dáin
Icelandic 	Dáin 2. Járnfótur
Italian 	Dáin II Piediferro
Irish Gaelic 	Dáin II Iarann chos
Japanese 	ダイン2世 鉄の足
Kannada 	ಎರಡನೇ ಡೈನ್ ಕಬ್ಬಿಣದ ಕಾಲು
Kazakh 	II Даін Темір аяқ (Cyrillic) II Dain Temir ayaq (Latin)
Korean 	무쇠발 다인 2세
Kurdish 	Dáin II Ling hesin (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Даин II Темир таман
Latin 	Dáin II Ferropede
Latvian 	Dáin II Dzelzs kāja
Lithuanian 	Dáin II Geležinė pėda
Luxembourgish 	Dáin II Eisefouss
Macedonian Cyrillic 	Даин II Железна Стапало
Malagasy 	Dáin II Tongotra vy
Manx 	Dáin II Cass Yiarn
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Төмөр Хөлт II Даин
Navajo 	Dáin II Bééshakeeʼ
Nepalese 	दोस्रो दैन आयरन खुट्टा
Norwegian 	Dáin II Jernfot
Pashto 	داین دوهم د اوسپنې پښه
Persian 	ضاین دوم پای آهن
Polish 	Dáin II Żelazna Stopa
Portuguese 	Dáin II Pé-de-Ferro (Brazil)
Dáin II Pé de Ferro (Portugal)
Punjabi 	ਡਾਈਨ ਦੂਜਾ ਲੋਹੇ ਦਾ ਪੈਰ
Romanian 	Dáin al II-lea Talpă-de-Fier
Russian 	Даин II Железностоп
Sanskrit 	ड्ऐन २ ईरोन्फ़ोओत
Scottish Gaelic 	Dáin II CasIarainn
Serbian 	Даин II
Cyrillic 	Гвозденстопа
Latin 	Dáin II Gvozdenstopa
Sinhalese 	දෙවැනි ඩෙයින් යකඩ කකුල
Slovak 	Dáin II Železná noha
Slovenian 	Dáin Železnonogi II.
Spanish (Spain and Latin America)	Dáin II Pie de Hierro
Swahili 	Dáin II Mguu wa chuma
Swedish 	Dáin II Järnfot
Tajik Cyrillic 	Даин II Оҳан по
Tamil 	இரண்டாம் டைந் இரும்பு கால்
Telugu 	రెండవ దైన ఐరన్ అడుగు
Thai 	ดาอิน 2 เท้าเหล็ก
Turkish 	II Dáin Demirayak
Turkmen 	Dáin II Demir aýak
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Даїн ІІ Залізносто
Urdu 	ڈین دوم آئرن پاؤں
Uzbek 	Даин II Темир оёқ (Cyrillic) Dain II Temir oyoq (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Dáin II Chân Sắt
Welsh 	Dáin II Troed haearn
Yiddish 	דאַין אייַזן פֿיס II
Yoruba 	Dáin 2k Irin ẹsẹ
Zazaki 	Dáin II Asın lınge
==References==
Category:Dwarves
Category:Lords of the Iron Hills
Category:Kings of Durin's Folk
Category:Kings of the Lonely Mountain
Category:The Hobbit characters
Category:Minor characters (The Lord of the Rings)
Category:The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies characters
Category:Deaths in battle
Category:Durin's Folk
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