Adaptations
In the 1977 animated version of The Hobbit, he is voiced by Hans Conried. In the Golden Joystick Award winning 1982 game The Hobbit Thorin appears as an AI controlled character and one of his seemingly random actions: "Thorin sits down and starts singing about gold", which occurs when the player does nothing for a while, became quite famous. In the 2003 video game, Thorin was voiced by Clive Revill.
In the extended edition of Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring film, Gandalf mentions that Thorin gave Bilbo a chain shirt made of mithril, a 'kingly gift" worth more than the value of the whole Shire. (Unbeknownst to Gandalf, Frodo Baggins, who overhears this comment, is wearing the mithril shirt at that moment.)
In the upcoming three-film adaptation of The Hobbit (2012-2014), Thorin will be portrayed by Richard Armitage.
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