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Biography

Early life and Quest of Erebor

was a member of Thorin's Company of Dwarves and participated in the Quest of Erebor , as well as fighting in and surviving the Battle of Five Armies . He, along with his cousins Dori and Nori were remote kinsmen of Thorin II Oakenshield

Ori lived in Thorin's Halls in the northern Blue Mountains for many years. In the year TA 2941, Ori became a member of Thorin's Company and travelled with Thorin, Gandalf, Bilbo Baggins, and the other dwarves on the quest for the Lonely Mountain, culminating in the death of Smaug. Finally, he and the other dwarves of Thorin's Company fought in the Battle of Five Armies, which he survived.[3]

Final days

Ori was one of the several Dwarves that accompanied Balin to Moria in TA 2989 to begin a colony there. Though it saw initial success, the colony was destroyed in TA 2994 when the Balrog and Orcs began to press back from the initial fight. After Balin died, Ori and others lived just long enough to bury him properly in a stone tomb before dying themselves in the last stand in the Chamber of Mazarbul. Ori recalls his last moments in The Book of Mazarbul which Gandalf reads from when the Fellowship passes by Balin's Tomb some twenty-four years later. His body is left clutching the scarred, bloodied, and shredded book; a warrior-scribe to the last breath.[4][5][6]

Portrayal in adaptations

The Hobbit film trilogy

In Peter Jackson's film trilogy, Ori is played by Adam Brown, and said to be the brother of Dori and Nori. Unlike the other members of Thorin's company, Ori is a scribe rather than a warrior and begins the quest armed with only a slingshot and knife. Though he is shown to be often mothered by his brother Dori, he shows his mettle in the Company's many encounters. During the party's escape from Goblin Town, Dwalin lends Ori his warhammer which the younger Dwarf uses with surprising effectiveness, at one point desperately swinging it backwards into a Warg's head. Dwalin is seen carrying it again by the end of the film. The studio released the following statement concerning Ori:

"Younger brother to Nori and Dori, Ori is a talented artist, and can often be found drawing and writing in his journal. It is Ori who chronicles much of the journey through The Wild to the shores of the Long Lake and the slopes of The Lonely Mountain. Polite and well-bred, he is used to being bossed around by his older brother Dori and is usually biddable, although occasionally he can surprise his fellow companions with his courage and determination. Ori is said to be the youngest in the company."

Despite being portrayed as the youngest of the company in Jackson's adaptation, Fíli and Kíli are actually described as the youngest by around fifty years.

Voice dubbing actors

Foreign Language Voice dubbing artist Czech (Czech Republic) Petr Neskusil French (France) Adrien Larmande German Nic Romm Italian (Italy) Edoardo Stoppacciaro Japanese Kouki Miyata Hungarian Péter Takátsy Polish Rafał Fudalej Portuguese (Brazil) (Television/DVD) Marcelo Garcia Slovak Roman Matisko Spanish (Latin America) Moisés Iván Mora Spanish (Spain) Enrique Hernández Ukrainian Dmytro Buzynskyy

Gallery

The Book of Mazarbul Ori figurine manufactured by Games Workshop. Ori (left) as he appears in the 1977 version of The Hobbit. Just Ori. Ori as a LEGO Ori in video game Ori on a promotional poster

Translations

Foreign Language Translated name Amharic ዖሪ Arabic وري Armenian Որի Belarusian Cyrillic Орі Bengali ওরি Bulgarian Cyrillic Ори Chinese (Hong Kong) 歐力 Georgian ორი Greek Ορι Gujarati ઓરી Hebrew אורי Hindi ॐरि ? Japanese オリ Kannada ಒರಿ Kazakh Орі (Cyrillic) Ori (Latin) Korean 오리 Kyrgyz Cyrillic Ори Macedonian Cyrillic Ори Marathi ओरी Mongolian Cyrillic Ори Nepalese ॐरि Pashto وری Persian اوری Russian Ори Sanskrit ॐरि Serbian Ори (Cyrillic) Ori (Latin) Sinhalese ඕරි Tajik Cyrillic Ори Tamil ஓரி Telugu ఒరి Uzbek Ори (Cyrillic) Ori (Latin) Yiddish ױרי



