Grór was the founder of the Dwarven realm in the Iron Hills and its first lord. He was also the younger brother of Thror and Fror, father of Náin and grandfather Dáin Ironfoot, and great-grandfather of Thorin III Stonehelm'
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Grór had lived in the dragon-plagued Grey Mountains. However, cold-drakes (dragons) attacked their family, forcing Grór, and his older brother Thrór and his youngest brother, to flee while their brother and father parished. After their father's death, Thrór was given the title as King under the Mountain. The brothers agreed to split their colony in half. Thror took a small portion of those who remained from the Grey Mountain kingdom to recolonizing Erebor while Gror took the larger portion of their kingdom to the Iron Hills, where Gror became the Lord of the Iron Hills. It is heavily presumed that the brothers remained in touch with each other.
Sometime after the destruction of Dale and the attack on Erebor, Gror was too old to fight in the War of Dwarves and Orcs, so he sent his son and grandson. However, he was devastated to learn of the death of his son but his grandson survived the battle. Gror later died in TA 2805.
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