


Bain bravely stands straight so Bard can correctly tilt the arrow toward Smaug, who touches onto the ground in front of the tower and mocks the father and son. Using the pieces of the destroyed tower to build a make-shift crossbow, Bard puts the shaft on Bain's shoulder as a base for the arrow. Running on the rooftops to the highest tower, Bard uses all of his arrows unsuccessfully shooting at Smaug, but, right after Bard runs out of arrows, Bain appears with the Black Arrow and hands it to his father. Bard is able to free himself by using a rope made of cloth and using it to latch onto the nearest moving object (in this case, the Master of Lake-town's neck), and break open the door. In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, Smaug reaches Lake-town and begins mercilessly burning and destroying the town and its people. Unfortunately, Thorin and Company awake and infuriate Smaug, who flies out angrily with the intent to destroy Lake-town. But as the town guard begins searching for Bard, Bain helps his father in hiding the Black Arrow while Bard is captured and imprisoned by the order of the Master of Lake-town. As he and Bain make their way to the Dwarvish wind lance atop the Master's mansion, he asks his father why he never told him about the Black Arrow, to which Bard retorts that he didn't need to know. Bard then reveals that he has one last Black Arrow in his possession. As night falls, they feel the ground shake as Smaug awakens. The next day, as the Dwarves set off for the Lonely Mountain with the support of Lake-town, Bard's house again becomes host to Fíli, Kíli, Óin and Bofur, as Kíli is gravely ill from Morgul poison and no one in town is willing to help.

Later, as his father returns from a tapestry shop, having discovered Thorin's true identity, Bain informs him that the Dwarves had left to raid the armoury. After hearing the Dwarves recite the tale of how Lord Girion used Black Arrows against Smaug, Bain adds that Girion once managed to dislodge a scale off the dragon. In The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, Bain is present with his sisters when his father returns home with Thorin and Company. There are two additional, invented members of his family, Sigrid and Tilda, who are his sisters. Portrayal in adaptations The Hobbit film trilogyĪ young Bain in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaugīain is shown to be in his teens in the latter two Hobbit films and is played by John Bell. Bain died in TA 3007 and was succeeded by his son, Brand. It was during his time as King, after his father's passing, that many party gifts of different varieties were ordered for use at Bilbo's Farewell Birthday Party in TA 3001. Born at an unknown date in the 30th century of the Third Age, Bain was a man of Dale, son of the famed Bard the Bowman.
