Thorin in the Blue Mountains

[Inziladun]

Originally Posted by Kuruharan

Sharing, they clearly had no problem with that. However, making a new "kingdom" there might have been something they would object to.

Since Thorin's settlement was referred to at least twice in ROTK Appendix A as a state of 'exile', maybe that knowledge that Erebor was the true kingdom for him would have kept Thorin from taking a formal kingship until the Lonely Mountain was regained.

Also, in UT The Quest of Erebor, Gandalf reports that he told Thorin:

'Your own ideas are those of a king, Thorin Oakenshield; but your kingdom is gone.'

That too would suggest that whatever Thorin had in the Ered Luin, he did not consider a kingdom.