[2Jedismom]

He hung out with Isildur...wasn't he the only one that made it back alive after the orc attack...?

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

They were ravens that lived on the Lonely Mountain and talked to the dwarves.

D'oh! It's been too long since I read The Hobbit. But as least I guessed right that that's where they appeared.

wasn't he the only one that made it back alive after the orc attack...?

Correct! He was Isildur's squire, who survived the Orc attack at the Gladden Fields and brought the shards of Narsil to Rivendell.