His son, Thorin I, left the mountain with much of the Folk of Durin to live in the Ered Mithrin ( Grey Mountains ) for the great riches to be found in that range.

In 2770 T. A., while a young Thorin II Oakenshield was out hunting, the dragon Smaug flew south from the Grey Mountains, killed all the dwarves he could find, and destroyed the town of Dale.

; Grey Wood: " Wide grey thickets " that grew at the eastern end of the Stonewain Valley, between Amon Dîn and the White Mountains.

In 2210 Thorin I founded a kingdom in the Grey Mountains to the north of Mirkwood.

Both of these realms would eventually be consumed by dragons — the Grey Mountains in 2590 by a horde and The Lonely Mountain in 2770 by the dragon Smaug.

The refugees from the Grey Mountains who did not return to The Lonely Mountain colonized the Iron Hills, one of the only Dwarf kingdoms never to be abandoned or taken.

There may have been a gap between Mount Gundabad in the Misty Mountains and the westernmost extremity of the Grey Mountains, though published maps differ on this point.

The Mountains were also home to the only known Balrog in the Second and Third Ages, until it was destroyed by Gandalf the Grey in T. A.

Scatha was a mighty " long-worm " of the Grey Mountains, little is known of Scatha except that he was slain by Fram son of Frumgar ( an ancestor of Eorl the Young ) in the early days of the Éothéod.

The Dwarves of Durin's folk under Thorin I abandoned Erebor, and left for the Grey Mountains, where most of their kin now gathered.

It flowed from its source in the Grey and Misty Mountains to the Mouths of Anduin ( Ethir Anduin ) in the Great Sea ( Belegaer ).

Anduin began as two different streams near where the Misty Mountains met the Grey.

The Langwell had its source in the Misty Mountains, close to Mount Gundabad and the Greylin began in the westernmost heights of the Grey Mountains.

Any traveller attempting to pass into the eastern regions of Middle-earth would have to cross the Anduin at some point along its long course ( unless one passed through the extreme north, risking a passage through the Grey Mountains ).

Grey dolomite laid down c. 500 mya ( unit ) | mya nonconformally overlies reddish rhyolite that formed close to 1500 mya in the St. Francois Mountains.

* P. p. lucida ( Altum, 1894 )-Eastern Grey Partridge-Finland east to Ural Mountains and south to Black Sea and northern Caucasus

* P. p. robusta ( Homeyer and Tancré, 1883 )-Southeastern Grey Partridge-Ural Mountains to southwestern Siberia and northwestern China

The Gray Jay ( Perisoreus canadensis ), also Grey Jay, Canada Jay, or Whiskey Jack, is a member of the crow and jay family ( Corvidae ) found in the boreal forests across North America north to the tree-line and in subalpine forests of the Rocky Mountains south to New Mexico and Arizona.

File: Marmota baibacina. jpg | Grey marmot ( Marmota baibacina ), Altai Mountains, Kazakhstan

Around the year 2500 of the Third Age, Grór son of Dáin I founded the Iron Hills as an independent kingdom after the Dwarves were exiled from the Grey Mountains to the west because of attacks by Cold-drakes seeking the vast wealth of the mountains, which had resulted in the death of the king Dáin I.

* Grey Mountains

It extended to the east as far as the inland Sea of Rhûn ; north to the Grey Mountains and Iron Hills, home of the Dwarves ; west to the range of the Hithaeglir, or Misty Mountains ; and south to the line marked by the Limlight river, Anduin, Emyn Muil, Dagorlad, and the Ered Lithui.

As a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, Jean Grey appears in various alternate plot lines and fictional universes.

In the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, the fictional Sindar ( meaning Grey People, singular Sinda, although the latter term was not generally used by Tolkien ) are Elves of Telerin descent.

* Helena Ravenclaw, also known as the Grey Lady, fictional character in the Harry Potter series

In J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional Middle-earth, Doriath is the realm of the Sindar, the Grey Elves of King Thingol in Beleriand.

While his writings showed his deep knowledge and concern about the environment, Belaney's account of his origins as " Grey Owl " was mostly fictional.

Below the council in the fictional hierarchy of the race are the Grey Seers, prophets of the Horned Rat himself, and powerful sorcerers.

* Charles Grey ( The Unit ), fictional character in United States television series The Unit

The Dead Men of Dunharrow ( also referred as the Shadow Host, the Grey Host, the oathbreakers, or simply the Dead ) are fictional characters in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium.

In the Babylon 5 fictional universe, the Grey Council is the governing body of the Minbari Federation.

Brooke Allison English ( formerly Cudahy, Chandler, Martin, and Grey ) is a fictional character on the television soap opera All My Children.

Nathaniel " Nate " Grey ( X-Man ) is a fictional comic book superhero appearing in books published by Marvel Comics, in particular those related to the X-Men franchise.

Book Cover of the 6th Edition Bretonnian Army BookIn Games Workshop's Warhammer Fantasy fictional universe, Bretonnia is a country located west of the Empire, between the Grey Mountains and the Great Ocean in the lands that were once part of the domain of the Elves.

Smitty was supposed to look somewhat like Cyclops, and his relationship with Jean Grey lookalike Rose to be what sparks Wolverine's jealousy in his fictional future.

It is stated that the two main protagonists, Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser " travelled through universes and lands " and eventually going on to say they ended up back on the fictional city of Lankhmar.

* Western writer Zane Grey included a fictional treatment of the Gnadenhutten Massacre in his 1906 historical novel " Spirit of the Border ".

In the novel Excession by Iain M. Banks, the GCU Grey Area is a General Contact Unit ( a self-aware spaceship dedicated to the task of exploring the universe and interacting with other species ) of the fictional Culture society that has turned eccentric.

" The Dark Phoenix Saga " is an extended X-Men storyline in the fictional, focusing on Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force, and ending in Grey's apparent death.

Blanche DuBois ( married name Grey ) is a fictional character in Tennessee Williams ' 1947 Pulitzer Prize-winning play A Streetcar Named Desire.

The Grey Gargoyle ( Paul Pierre Duval ) is a fictional comic book supervillain that appears in books published by Marvel Comics, often as an enemy of Thor, Iron Man or Captain America.