Helms, Randel (1981). Tolkien and the Silmarils, 1st, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, გვ. 86. ISBN0-395-29469-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...“