This was the beginning of the War of the Dwarves and Orcs, although it took up to three years for the Dwarves to gather their full forces. After seven days of sitting in silent grief, Thráin at last stood up and declared that this atrocity would be answered. This was the tale that Nár brought back to Thráin II when he returned to Dunland weeks later. When he looked back, Orcs had emerged from the gate and were hacking apart Thrór's body and flinging the pieces to the black crows. Nár took the pouch and fled down the Silverlode. He was barred from retrieving the head of Thrór and was struck with a pouch containing a few coins of little worth, which Azog referred to as a 'fee', but it was meant as a final insulting gesture. Nár turned it over and found branded across the forehead, written in Dwarven runes, a name that would be branded in the hearts of all Dwarves: Azog.
Thrór's head lay severed next to his body.
But that was not all: the voice proclaimed that he now ruled Moria, and if any wanted to know who was king, he had written his name on the beggar's face. Nár was told to bring this message back to his people. He was told to deliver a warning that 'beggars' who would not wait at the doors but instead entered to attempt thieving, would meet a similar fate. Rather than being killed as well, Nár was instead made use of as a messenger. Then a voice called out to him from just inside the gate. It was indeed the body of Thrór, as Nár had feared. One day he heard a great shout, followed by the blast of a horn, and a body was flung out onto the steps. Nár begged Thrór to beware but, Thrór disregarded his pleas and proudly entered Moria as its returning heir, but he did not come back. They crossed over the Misty Mountains through the Redhorn Pass and then came south again, crossing the Silverlode into the valley of Azanulbizar beneath the East-gate of Moria. He then left his people and journeyed away north with a single companion called Nár. Twenty years later in TA 2790, Thrór now old, poor, and desperate, gave to his son Thráin II the last of the Seven Rings, a key and map of the Lonely Mountain. They eventually, settled in the hills of Dunland where they made a living as best they could.
The majority of the survivors migrated to the Iron Hills, but some followed King Thrór, his son Thráin II, and grandson Thorin Oakenshield west into a long and homeless wandering. Eventually the wealth of the kingdom attracted the attention of the dragon known as Smaug, who flew south and destroyed the kingdom, killing hundreds of Dwarves and driving away Thrór and his family, as well as thousands of other surviving Dwarves. Under Thrór's leadership, Erebor prospered for over a century. Grór led the other portion of Durin's Folk further east to the Iron Hills where he founded his realm. He and his youngest brother Grór resolved to divide their folk: Thrór led a small portion of Durin's Folk to recolonize Erebor, taking the Arkenstone with him. In TA 2589, when their halls came under attack by Cold-drakes, his father Dáin I and younger brother Frór were both slain at their gates by a great Cold-drake, and Thrór inherited the kingship. In his early life, Thrór and his family lived in the dragon-plagued Ered Mithrin. Thrór sitting on his throne with the Arkenstone demonstrating his power to rule.
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