Randel Helms, Tolkien and the Silmarils, 1st, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1981, p. 86, ISBN 0-395-29469-X.
«As apt a description of Thorin Oakenshield as of the dwarf-lord of Nogrod; but yet when we see Thorin in person, ... there is a notable addition, a comic pomposity altogether suitable to what Tolkien intends in The Hobbit...»