[Thorir nods, and then frowns faintly - the familiar vertigo of a pulse is hitting him and he starts to open his mouth but halts the motion. No, it's different, the same time it was different with Gabriel - not of, not over. Under. It's always "under the mountain".
King under the mountain. Thorin was king under the mountain. King of the last of the great dwarven kingdoms of Middle Earth, before it's ruin...
And Fíli - his nephew - was his heir. Does that mean Thorin had no children of his own?
There is a pause here, a silence that follows Daniel's words, and it stretches, as Thorir's thoughts race at the implications of this tiny pulse of a title.]
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King under the mountain. Thorin was king under the mountain. King of the last of the great dwarven kingdoms of Middle Earth, before it's ruin...
And Fíli - his nephew - was his heir. Does that mean Thorin had no children of his own?
There is a pause here, a silence that follows Daniel's words, and it stretches, as Thorir's thoughts race at the implications of this tiny pulse of a title.]