Rewards

Rewards, Excitement, and RevengeThe Hobbit, chapter XII, "Inside Information", were often the primary motives for Heroes, Burglars, and Warriors to have an adventure or to complete a quest for any individual.The Hobbit, chapter I, "An Unexpected Party"
Often, these Rewards took the form of treasure. Dragons, Trolls, Men, Orcs, and Dwarves all had penchants for accumulating treasure. In all likeliness, Rewards procured from plundering would be hidden in holds or vaults. Glaurung's hoard in Nargothrond, Smaug's lair in the Lonely Mountain, Moria, and the Trolls' lair beneath the Troll Ridge, in which was found the Elven swords Glamdring and Orcrist, serve as illustrations of this.
==In adaptations==
In The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), Thorin's Company buries a chest of treasure taken from the trolls' hoard in the ground of their lair in the Trollshaws. In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Bilbo and Gandalf have evidently retrieved the chest, and Bilbo takes it on his return home.
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