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Originally Posted by Kuruharan
Sharing, they clearly had no problem with that. However, making a new "kingdom" there might have been something they would object to.
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Since Thorin's settlement was referred to at least twice in
ROTK Appendix A as a state of 'exile', maybe that knowledge that Erebor was the
true kingdom for him would have kept Thorin from taking a formal kingship until the Lonely Mountain was regained.
Also, in
UT The Quest of Erebor, Gandalf reports that he told Thorin:
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'Your own ideas are those of a king, Thorin Oakenshield; but your kingdom is gone.'
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That too would suggest that whatever Thorin had in the Ered Luin, he did not consider a kingdom.