127 - Ori! (tutorial)
Mae govannen, mellon nín! Another post, another dwarf from Thorin Oakenshield's Company! This time I will present my painted Ori, a slingshot user, peculiar dwarf. Without much surprise, Ori is a miniature from the Escape from Goblin Town box set, sculpted in plastic. Who is Ori? Assembled and unprimed miniature of Ori. " Ori was one of the thirteen Dwarves of Thorin's company who journeyed to Erebor to challenge the dragon Smaug. After the death of Smaug, Ori lived at the Lonely Mountain until he went to Moria as part of Balin's ill-fated attempt to re-take the ancient mansions of the Dwarves. In T.A. 2989 Ori (and Óin) had followed Balin with a colony of Dwarves in an attempt to reclaim their ancient mansions of Khazad-dûm, which were already occupied by the Goblins. At first the colony did well, but less than five years later Balin was killed, the Orcs returned and took the East-gate, and Óin's group that he took west to the West-gate was destroyed except...