[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by alatar

So, to recap: Four rings, four Dwarf-lords, four Dragons of some repute. Why then do we not read anything about the massive battles that obviously must have taken place in each of these four cases?

I think there are quite many important things we are not told about, for example there must have been many important battles between Gondor&Harad or Rhun and we are told nothing precise about them. Also, counting in the fact that Dwarves were pretty secretive folk, in the chronicles of Men/Hobbits there couldn't be much about it. After all, Gandalf only knew about the Ring because he was... well, Wise, and Thráin still repeated "last of the Seven, last of the Seven" when he met him. Otherwise, I am pretty sure the Dwarves would be more quiet about their heritage, and even more about their doom. Also, if all the Ring-dinners took parts somewhere in Withered Heath, and were somewhat alike the Lonely Mountain incident, and, in contrary to the Lonely Mountain incident, no one survived or escaped, even the Dwarves themselves could have had trouble in reconstructing the incident.

Originally Posted by Hobbit, chapter 1

There were lots of dragons in the North in those days, and gold was probably getting scarce up there, with the dwarves flying south or getting killed, and all the general waste and destruction that dragons make going from bad to worse.

And so it seems, there were many dragon incidents, and no one bothers with long narrations. "Some dragon came and ate Dáin I." The fact that there were two hundred other Dwarves around at that time doesn't concern anyone.