He appears as a giant, obese, bloated goblin (more akin to a troll) with lots of warts, lumps, and scars, and carries a large staff decorated with an animal skull, closely resembling a ram, adorned with shrunken heads. In Peter Jackson's film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012), Barry Humphries, who is more commonly known for his alter ego Dame Edna Everage, is the voice and motion-capture performer of the Great Goblin, an entirely computer-generated character. The Great Goblin greeting Thorin and company in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey " Bones will be shattered, necks will be wrung! You'll be beaten and battered, from racks you'll be hung! You will die down here and never be found! Down in the deep of Goblin-Town!" - The Great Goblin's song in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey nobody, really." - The Great Goblin, taunting Thorin Oakenshield Oh, but I'm forgetting you don't have a mountain, and you're not a king, which makes you. The Hobbit film trilogy " Well, well, well! Look who it is Thorin, son of Thráin, son of Thrór, " King under the Mountain". In the 1977 Rankin/Bass version of The Hobbit, the Great Goblin was voiced by John Stephenson. The Great Goblin (1977) Rankin/Bass version Bolg's forces tracked Thorin and Company to the Lonely Mountain where they fought in the Battle of Five Armies against the Dwarves, Elves, and Lake-men. A great army of goblins and Wargs was amassed by Bolg, whose father Azog had been killed by the Dwarf Dáin Ironfoot. The death of the Great Goblin angered the goblins of the Misty Mountains. Gandalf then fought back, stabbing the Great Goblin and killing him. As the Dwarves were escaping, the Great Goblin leapt down in front of them, and attacked Gandalf who was at the head of the party. It was Glamdring, called "Beater" by the goblins, and now wielded by Gandalf. Immediately, all the torches in the cave were extinguished and a glowing sword "bright as blue flame" appeared. When it was revealed that Thorin carried the Elvish sword Orcrist - which the Orcs feared and which they called "Biter" - the Great Goblin was enraged and at once leapt to attack Thorin. It is also possible he was just toying with the group and would kill them afterwards.) (He seems less hostile in this passage than the Orcs are during the later War of the Ring, as his questioning seems to imply that he has not decided beforehand whether he will order the party killed, make them slaves, or even let them go, but that he will decide according to their answers. The Great Goblin demanded to know what the Dwarves were doing in the mountains. In the summer of TA 2941, the Dwarves of Thorin and Company, along with Bilbo Baggins, were captured on the Front Porch and were brought before the Great Goblin in his great cave, where he was seated on a flat stone and surrounded by armed guards. The Great Goblin sometimes ordered his goblins to catch fish for him in Gollum's Lake, and these goblins were sometimes killed by Gollum. The goblins then made another gate opening into a cave they called the Front Porch, at the top of the High Pass. They preyed on travellers who used another, easier pass near the main gate of Goblin-town until people started avoiding that route over the mountains. He was the chief of a group of goblins who lived in Goblin-town near the High Pass. He was a very large creature with a huge head. The Great Goblin was a goblin chieftain of the Misty Mountains.
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