Battle of Azanulbizar

The Battle of Azanulbizar was the last battle in the War of the Dwarves and Orcs in the Third Age.
==History==
The Battle of Azanulbizar was fought in the year TA 2799, between Orcs of the Misty Mountains and a host of Dwarves, in the Dimrill Dale, which was also named Azanulbizar. Much of it occurred outside the entrance to the Dwarven realm of Khazad-dûm, which had been lost six centuries beforehand.
The battle was the greatest and final of the War of Dwarves and Orcs, being a decisive, if pyrrhic, victory for the Dwarves. The battle claimed the lives of many, including Frerin, the second son of Thráin II and younger brother of Thorin Oakenshield. Fundin, father of Balin and Dwalin, also fell. Náin, son of Grór was slain in a fight with Azog. Azog was then slain in turn by Náin's young son, Dáin Ironfoot.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix A, III. Durin's Folk
The victory did not, however, avail the Dwarves in reclaiming Khazad-dûm. Balin would attempt to secure and re-settle the abandoned realm ninety years later.The Lord of the Rings, Appendix B
==In adaptations==
The portrayal of the Battle of Azanulbizar in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit film trilogy was altered in several significant aspects from the account given by J.R.R. Tolkien, notably in the condensing of the battle, and through greatly over-stating the significance of Azog.
As shown in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journeyand the extended edition of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, after Smaug had driven the Dwarves out of the Lonely Mountain, Thrór attempted to lead all of his people back to their ancestral realm in Azanulbizar only to find that the Gundabad Orcs, led by Azog, had gotten there first. Before going into battle, Thrór gave his son Thráin his Ring of Power in case he was slain. If this occurred, his son would take his position as King of Durin's Folk. Leading a legion of Dwarves of the Lonely Mountain and the Iron Hills, Thrór fought with his son and grandson during the battle, and attempted to fight against Azog, but the Orc darted aside and decapitated him. Thorin witnessed his grandfather's death and attempted to avenge him, but Thráin stopped him and warned him that Azog the Defiler was meant to destroy the line of Durin. Refusing to allow his son suffer the same fate as Thrór, Thráin attempted to take down Azog himself, but the deadly Orc managed to take him down and steal the ring by slicing off his finger.
While Thráin led a charge towards the Dimrill Gate and never returned, the rest of the Dwarf Army was driven back by the Orcs in a retreat that threatened to turn into a rout, with Orcs slaughtering the fleeing Dwarves on the run. Thorin, hoping to rally his army, decided to face off against Azog in single combat. The Orc easily overpowered him, relieving Thorin of his sword and shield. Thorin defended himself desperately with an oaken branch as a shield, and eventually managed to slice off Azog's left arm with his retrieved sword. The wounded Azog was then dragged back by his subordinates, and Thorin rallied the remaining Dwarves, including Balin and Dwalin against the remaining Orcs and won a pyrrhic victory, defeating the Orcs. Most of the Dwarves were slain. While Balin, and Dwalin walked amidst the heaps of their slain kin, Thorin was told by several Dwarves that Thráin was gone as well. Thorin refused to believe it, and spent hours searching among the slain Dwarves, to the last body, and finally realized that his father was not among the fallen. Azog had been presumed dead, dying of his injuries. However, as it was shown in An Unexpected Journey, Azog lived, and vowed revenge on Thorin.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Slag van Azanulbizar
Albanian 	Beteja e Azanulbizarit
Alemannic German 	Schlacht am Azanulbizar
Amharic 	የአዛኑልዚባር ውጊያ
Arabic 	معركة أزانولبيزار
Aragonese 	Batalla de Azanulbizar
Armenian 	Ազանուլբիզարի Դագորլադ
Assamese 	আজানুলবিজাৰৰ যুদ্ধ
Asturian 	Batalla de Azanulbizar
Azerbaijani 	Azanulbizar Döyüş
Basque 	Azanulbizarko Gudua
Belarusian Cyrillic	Азанулбізар бітва
Bosnian 	Bitka kod Azanulbizar
Breton 	Emgann Azanulbizar
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Битката при Азанулбизар (Battle of Azanulbizar) Битката при Нандухирион (Battle of Nanduhirion)
Catalan 	Batalla de Azanulbizar
Cebuano 	Gubat sa Azanulbizar
Chichewa 	Nkhondo ya Azanulbizar
Chinese (Hong Kong)	南都西理安之戰
Cornish 	Batel Azanulbizar
Croatian 	Bitka kod Azanulbizar
Czech 	Bitva o Azanulbizar
Danish 	Slaget ved Azanulbizar
Dogri 	अज़ानुलबिज़र की लड़ाई
Dutch 	Slag bij Azanulbizar
Esperanto 	Batalo de Azanulbizar
Estonian 	Azanulbizari lahing
Filipino 	Labanan ng Azanulbizar
Finnish 	Azanulbizarin taistelu
French 	Bataille d’Azanulbizar
Frisian 	Slach om Azanulbizar (Western)
Galician 	Batalla de Azanulbizar
Georgian 	აზანულბიზარ ბრძოლა
German 	Schlacht von Azanulbizar
Greek 	Μάχη του Αζανούλμπιζαρ
Gujarati 	અઝાનુલબિઝારનું યુદ્ધ
Haiti Creole 	Batay nan Azanulbizar
Hebrew 	(Battle of Nanduhirion) קרב נאנדוהיריון (Battle of Azanulbizar) קרב אזאנולביזאר
Hindi 	अज़ानुलबिजर की लड़ाई
Hmong 	Sib ntaus sib tua ntawm Azanulbizar
Hungarian 	Azanulbizari csata
Icelandic 	Orrustan um Azanulbizar
Italian 	Battaglia di Azanulbizar
Irish Gaelic 	Cath Azanulbizar
Indonesian 	Peperangan Azanulbizar
Japanese 	アザヌルビザールの戦い
Javanese 	Perang Azanulbizar
Kannada 	ಆಜನುಲ್ಬಿಜರ ಸಮರ
Kazakh 	Азанүлбізар шайқасы (Cyrillic) Azanülbizar şayqası (Latin)
Konkani 	आझानुलबिझाराचें झूज
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Азанулбизар салгылашы
Kurdish 	Şerê Azanulbizar (Kurmanji)
Latin 	Pugna Azanulbizar
Latvian 	Azanulbizar kaujas
Lithuanian 	Azanulbizar mūšis
Lombard 	Batàia de Azanulbizar
Luxembourgish 	Schluecht vu Azanulbizar
Macedonian Cyrillic	Азанулбизар битка
Malagasy 	Ady ny Azanulbizar ?
Malaysian 	Pertempuran Azanulbizar
Maltese 	Battalja ta 'Azanulbizar
Manx 	Azanulbizar y Caggee
Marathi 	अझनुलबिझार युद्ध
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Азанулбизар тулалдаан
Nepalese 	आज़नुल्बिज़र् को युद्ध
Norwegian 	Slaget ved Azanulbizar
Occitan 	Batalha d'Azanulbizar
Pashto 	باټلې وف آزانولبیزار
Persian 	نبرد آزانولبیزار
Polish 	Bitwa pod Azanulbizar
Portuguese 	Batalha de Azanulbizar
Punjabi 	ਅਜ਼ਾਨੁਲਬਿਜ਼ਾਰ ਦੀ ਲੜਾਈ
Romanian 	Bătălia de la Azanulbizar
Romansh 	Bataglia Azanulbizar
Russian 	Битва при Азанулбизаре (Battle of Azanulbizar)
Битва при Нандугирион (Battle of Nanduhirion)
Sardinian 	Batalla de Azanulbizar
Scottish Gaelic 	Blàr Azanulbizar
Serbian 	Битка за Азанулбизар (Cyrillic) Bitka za Azanulbizar (Latin)
Sesotho 	Ntoa ea Azanulbizar
Sicilian 	Battagghia di li Azanulbizar
Sindhi 	ازان البزار جي جنگ
Sinhalese 	ආzඅනුල්බිzඅර් සටන
Slovak 	Bitka pri Azanulbizare
Slovenian 	Bitka pri Azanulbizar
Spanish 	Batalla de Azanulbizar
Swahili 	Mapigano ya Azanulbizar
Swedish 	Slaget vid Azanulbizar
Tajik Cyrillic 	Азанулбизар
Tamil 	ஆசானுல்பிசர் சண்டை
Tatar 	Азанулбизар сугышы
Telugu 	అజనుల్బిజర్ యుద్ధం
Turkish 	Azanulbizar Muharebesi
Turkmen 	Azanulbizar Söweş
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Битва при Анулбізарі
Urdu 	جنگ ازانولبیزر
Uzbek 	Азанулбизар жанги (Cyrillic) Azanulbizar jangi (Latin)
Vietnamese 	Trận Azanulbizar
Welsh 	Brwydr Azanulbizar
Yiddish 	שלאַכט פון אַזאַנולביזאַר
Yoruba 	Ogun ti Azanulbizar
==References==
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Category:Battles