In The Hobbit, Thorin paid little mind to the One Ring, but if he had tried to take it from Bilbo, he could have unintentionally doomed Middle-earth.

Thorin Oakenshield, the rightful heir, grew up haunted by the loss of his home and vowed to reclaim it. Determined, he gathered a company, including the unsuspecting Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins ...

Later in "The Hobbit," Thorin would lose Orcrist when he was captured ... (Antiwar sentiment is a large theme of Tolkien's "The Hobbit," so there is certainly an irony in the weapon fetish that ...