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I love both the bible and the Hobbit trilogy. I'm sure some of you remember this line snipit of dialogue from The Battle of the Five Armies. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have a bunch of biblical undertones and themes woven into their stories. Whenever I think about Thorin and Bilbo I think about King Saul and David.

If you don't know the story of Saul (found in 1 Samuel), he was anointed by Samuel (the old man in the pic here) to be the very first king of Israel, and was okay for a time. But down the line, he disobeyed God's orders and was rejected as king by God. Samuel was then sent by God to anoint David as the new king.
Somewhere down the line (after David becomes one of Saul's armor bearers and kills Goliath), Saul (being tormented by an evil spirit) tries to kill David with a spear TWICE! David later flees for his life and hides from Saul in the wilderness. Saul chases David for years, and during that time, even thought David had a couple of opportunities to kill Saul, but he didn't. Saul later dies by his own hand in a battle against the Philistines, and when David catches word of this, he grieves for Saul despite all of the evil things he had done to him.

I really just needed to get a picture out of my system before I settled into a late night of research for my thesis and I've been dying to draw this. David and the prophet Samuel discussing Saul's slipping into madness because of the evil spirit tormenting him. Very similar to Thorin's "dragon sickness" and I thought it would be kinda fun to do a small crossover of sorts.

*Now, just to clarify this dialogue comes straight from the Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies movie and is not found in the Bible.

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I love both the bible and the Hobbit trilogy. I'm sure some of you remember this line snipit of dialogue from The Battle of the Five Armies. The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have a bunch of biblical undertones and themes woven into their stories. Whenever I think about Thorin and Bilbo I think about King Saul and David.

If you don't know the story of Saul (found in 1 Samuel), he was anointed by Samuel (the old man in the pic here) to be the very first king of Israel, and was okay for a time. But down the line, he disobeyed God's orders and was rejected as king by God. Samuel was then sent by God to anoint David as the new king.
Somewhere down the line (after David becomes one of Saul's armor bearers and kills Goliath), Saul (being tormented by an evil spirit) tries to kill David with a spear TWICE! David later flees for his life and hides from Saul in the wilderness. Saul chases David for years, and during that time, even thought David had a couple of opportunities to kill Saul, but he didn't. Saul later dies by his own hand in a battle against the Philistines, and when David catches word of this, he grieves for Saul despite all of the evil things he had done to him.

I really just needed to get a picture out of my system before I settled into a late night of research for my thesis and I've been dying to draw this. David and the prophet Samuel discussing Saul's slipping into madness because of the evil spirit tormenting him. Very similar to Thorin's "dragon sickness" and I thought it would be kinda fun to do a small crossover of sorts.

*Now, just to clarify this dialogue comes straight from the Hobbit The Battle of the Five Armies movie and is not found in the Bible.