 Thorin, who did not think much of Hobbits, reluctantly agreed, calculating that Bilbo's presence would be a small price to pay for Gandalf's help.Tolkien adopted Thorin's names from the "Dvergatal", the list of Dwarves, in the Old Norse poem "Völuspá", which is part of the "Poetic Edda".The name "Thorin" ("Þorinn") appears in stanza 12, where it is used for a dwarf, and the name "Oakenshield" ("Eikinskjaldi") in stanza 13.