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The Battle of the Five Armies.

Nope, the "thunder-battle" is a great thunderstorm in the Misty Mountains while the Dwarves and Bilbo try to cross the pass. (Note: In the first edition the "thunder" is literally the crashing of great boulders against the mountains as Giants fight. This is edited out as "too childish" and incompatible with the "Rings" plot in all later editions, but the "thunder-battle" is left in - just without Giants involved.)

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Tolkien was talking about that awesome occasion when two large thunderstorms collide in the atmosphere.

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he meant that when the two rocks hit it makes a thunder type of noice plus it was in a thunder storm.

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