Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26897694-20151007002712/@comment-26236093-20151008064119

Khuzdul1 wrote: oh and it was meant to be decorative and when you mine it from the tree you can the acheviment: "Bearded likeliness"

The appendices gives the following foot note on this topic on page 1410, you will find that this is in fact cannon...

"It was said that Thorin's shield was cloven and he cast it away and he hewed of with his axe a branch of an oak and held it in his hand to ward off the strokes of his foes, or to wield as a club, in this way he recieved his title "