Side-door

The Side-door or Back Door was the secret door to the Dwarven kingdom of the Lonely Mountain, located on a shelf of the mountain's western side. It accessed a long tunnel that led down into the Great Hall of Thráin.
== Description ==
The Side-door was made as if to look as if it were a natural rock face on the mountain; its surface was flat and smooth, lacking any clues that it was a door. It was five feet high and 3–9 feet wide, with a key-hole about three feet from the ground.The Hobbit, Chapter XI: "On the Doorstep"
== History ==
The Side-door was built sometime during the reign of Thrór with the support of his son Thráin. Its purpose was likely for a means of escape. According to Thorin, Thrór and Thráin were the only ones who knew about it and used it to escape when Smaug attacked and claimed the mountain and all its wealth.The Hobbit, Chapter I: "An Unexpected Party" The door could only be opened with a key, and then only on the last light shone upon it on Durin's Day. When Thorin and Company reached it, they recognized it for what it was and the Dwarves eager to get inside attempted to force it open without success.
As a ray of sun struck the door, a piece of rock would flake off to reveal the key-hole, allowing the door to be opened. Bilbo passed through the door and down to Smaug.The Hobbit, Chapter XII: "Inside Information" Anticipating that Smaug would find out how he got in, the Dwarves shut the side-door to the outside and retreated down the tunnel just in time before Smaug attacked the entrance, smashing the rock face to bits, destroying the side-door and everything around it with lashings of his great tail, and sealing them in the mountain.
==Translations==
Foreign Language 	Translated name
Afrikaans 	Kant-deurtjie
Albanian 	Dyer anësore
Amharic 	የጎን በር
Arabic 	باب جانبي
Armenian 	Կողքի դուռը
Azerbaijani 	Yan qapı
Basque 	Alboko ate
Belarusian Cyrillic 	бакавыя дзверы
Bengali 	পাশের দরজা
Bosnian 	Bočna vrata
Bulgarian Cyrillic 	Странична врата
Burmese 	ဘေးထွက်တံခါးကို
Cambodian 	ចំហៀងទ្វា
Catalan 	Porta lateral
Cebuano 	Kilid sa pultahan
Chinese 	侧门
Czech 	Boční dveř
Croatian 	Bočna vrata
Danish 	Den Hemmelige Dør (Sidedøren)
Dari 	درب های جانبی
Dutch 	Zijdeur
Esperanto 	Flanka pordo
Estonian 	Küljeuks
Filipino 	Gilid-pinto
Finnish 	Sivuluukku
French 	Porte latérale
Friulian 	Puarte laterâl
Galician 	Porta lateral
Georgian 	გვერდითი კარი
German 	Seitentür
Greek 	Πλευρά-πόρτα
Gujarati 	બાજુનો દરવાજો
Hebrew 	הדלת הצדדית
Hindi 	बगली दरवाजा
Hungarian 	Oldal ajtó
Icelandic 	Hlið hurð
Indonesian 	Pintu samping
Irish Gaelic 	Doras taobh
Italian 	Porta laterale
Japanese 	サイドドア
Javanese 	Lawang sisih
Kannada 	ಪಕ್ಕ ಬಾಗಿಲು
Kazakh 	Бүйір есік (Cyrillic) Büyir esik (Latin)
Korean 	사이드 도어
Kyrgyz Cyrillic 	Каптал эшик
Laotian 	ປະຕູຂ້າງຄຽງ
Latvian 	Sānu durvīm
Lithuanian 	Šonines duris
Luxembourgish 	Säitentor
Macedonian Cyrillic	Странични врат
Malayalam 	സൈഡ് വാതിൽ
Malaysian 	Pintu sampingan
Maltese 	In-naħa tal-bieb
Marathi 	साइड-दरवाजा
Mongolian Cyrillic 	Хажуугийн хаалга
Nepalese 	साइड ढोका
Norwegian 	Sidedøren
Occitan 	Pòrta laterala
Pashto 	د غاړې دروازه
Persian 	درب سمت
Polish 	Boczne-drzwi (Side-door)
Tajemne Drzwi (Secret Door)
Portuguese 	Porta lateral
Punjabi 	ਪਾਸੇਦਾ ਦਰਵਾਜ਼ਾ
Romanian 	Usa laterala
Russian 	Боковая дверь
Sardinian 	Porta de su laterale
Scottish Gaelic 	Doras taobh
Serbian 	Бочна врата (Cyrillic) Bočna vrata (Latin)
Sicilian 	Porta di latu
Sindhi 	پاسي جي دروازي
Sinhalese 	සයිඩ් දොර
Slovak 	Bočné dvere
Slovenian 	Stranska vrata
Spanish 	Puerta lateral
Sundanese 	Samping panto
Swahili 	Mlango wa upande
Swedish 	Sidodörren
Tajik Cyrillic 	Дари тараф
Tamil 	பக்க கதவு
Tatar 	Як ишеге
Telugu 	సైడ్ డోర్
Thai 	ประตูด้านข้าง
Turkish 	Yan kapı
Turkmen 	Tarapy gapy
Ukrainian Cyrillic 	Бічні двере
Urdu 	طرف دروازہ
Uzbek 	Йон эшик (Cyrillic) Yon eshik (Latin)
Venetian 	Porta laterale
Vietnamese 	Cửa bên
Welsh 	Drws ochr
Yiddish 	זייַט טיר
== References ==
pl:Tajemne Drzwi
Category:Lonely Mountain
Category:Doors