Chapter 17, The Clouds Burst.
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Chapter 17 ('The Clouds Burst') of The Hobbit, covers the Battle of the Five Armies. As is the way of battles, many died, "among the goblin dead lay many men and many dwarves, and many a fair elf that should have lived yet long ages merrily in the wood."Fili and Kili, two of the dwarves in the Company died defending Thorin, their uncle in this battle, though their death was not revealed until Chapter 18. Thorin was mortally wounded in the Battle of the Five Armies, and died shortly after.
It was the Battle of Five Armies. The armies were the humans, elves and dwarves against the wargs and the goblins.
The HobbitThe Fellowship of the Ring, Book IThe Fellowship of the Ring, Book IIThe Two Towers, Book IThe Two Towers, Book IIThe Return of the King, Book IThe Return of the King, Book IIThe Silmarillion is another book that Tolkien also set in Middle-earth thousands of years before the first of the Hobbit books, but it is a history of the Elves and does not concern itself with Hobbits (except briefly in its final chapter where it reviews the events of the end of the Third Age from the point of view of the Elves, which differs slightly from the point of view of the Hobbits).
The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .
Thorin was dying, he had been mortally wounded in the Battle of Five Armies. He wanted to make his peace with Bilbo before he died. Bilbo was found and brought to him just in time.