Okay so here is another thing I came up with the night the site was down. Keep in mind that I made most of this stuff up and only some of it is based off the stuff that I have summarized about the characters so its like The Hobbit with a large hint of ME. Which it is since I made it up lol.
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Anyway, I hope you enjoy this story, the chapter's keep getting longer the more into it I get. Tell me what you think leave a review or two any advice or praise is very welcome.
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10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW
Ten things you didn't know about each of the characters in The Hobbit starting with the Company of Thorin Oakenshield and then everyone else.
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Thorin Oakenshield son of Thrain son of Thrór
*_ 1 _*
He likes the smell in the air that a long harsh thunder storm leaves.
When Thorin was still a young Prince of Erebor he use to be afraid of the sound of thunder thinking that mountain trolls were trying to get into the mountain and that the mountain was going to fall down under their might. It was actually a rather common fear found in all dwarfling's and very rational in their minds as they are very small and the mountain trolls were very large, bigger than they were by at least twenty or thirty fold.
What caused this fear to take root in young Thorin's mind was all due to the stories he begged of his father to tell him at night before bed - if you can image a small cute young Thorin that is not the serious brooding and majestic full grown Dwarrow that he is today - of his adventures when he goes out of the mountain to different kingdom's tending to the business of making treaties and securing their own kingdom's trade root.
And as you one can believe Thorin's mother Princess Gaenor was not pleased with her husband's Flippant throwing about of inappropriate bed time tales and after giving her husband a what fore tongue lashing that people all the way in Gondor heard and a sentencing him to not sleeping in their shared bed chambers for a week eventually explained to her son that the crashing sounds were only the long ago forgotten echo's of the mighty Stone Giant's practicing their battle maneuvers.
It is for this fond memory of his mother that Thorin like the smell of rain that lingers after a long harsh thunderstorm.
*_ 2 _*
Though he hates Elves he is a big fan of their poetry books. Especially the ones from the First Age since most of them are about war.
Even though he hate's Elves after King Thranduil turned his forces away from the Dwarves plight when Smaug came and attacked and took Erebor he did not always loath them so. In fact as a dwarfling he fancied myself wanting to marry one because they were beautiful and they 'glowed'.
Before the Elves' treachery took place the young Prince was often gifted many Epic's, Saga's and Poetry book's by the Elves that came to Erebor to talk with his grandfather King Thrain after all he was both a young Prince that was set to inherit the throne after his father and he was an adorable dwarfling. And every race knows how much Elves and Dwarves cherish and adore children of every race as they are thought to be a gift since they are so rare to both races.
His collection of previously said gifted books was one of the things he regretted leaving in Erebor when it fell even though he could not have hoped to have carried all of the books he had massed together over his life. And to this day, even though his hatred for Elves is strong, he cannot forfeit his love for their poetry book's especially the ones still left within The Lonely Mountain.
It is for this reason that his fondness for Elven poetry books still stands even though his trust and respect for the race who wrote them has diminished into nothing but the tiniest specs of dust.
*_ 3 _*
He has initiated seven courtships during his life before Erebor fell and all but one of them refused his suit. The one that didn't died in Dale the day Smaug came and set fire to it. Her name was Nagida, she had also been his One.
After many failed attempts at wooing several beautiful and highly well to do Dwarrowdam's Thorin had nearly given up on finding both a Dwarrowdam his family would approve to be a good match and his One.
Six times he had failed in finding a suitable wife, his suit having been turned down again and again despite being the Crown Prince and next in line for the thrown after his father Thrain. As is turned out he latter learned, no Dwarrowdam would willing choose to marry a Dwarrow that was not her One even if one of their would be suitors was a Prince and set to inherit one of the larges Kingdom's and hoards of gold in Middle Earth.
He had been walking sulkily around Erebor's lower halls when he quite literally was knocked off his feet by a slight Dwarrowdam with hair like silken copper and eyes like emerald gems. The Dwarrowdam that had knocked him down just happened to be his One and no sooner than he had landed i=on the floor with her on top of him she got up and drug him down the hall after her at a quick pace introducing herself as Nagida daughter of Nardo apparently trying to out distant whoever had been chasing her and was yelling angrily for her to get back there that instant lest her father find out she had not done what he had told her to do.
They had only known each other for a year and had only been courting for three months when the Desolation of Smaug came and took the mountain. Nagida had been in Dale that day looking to buy a courting present for Thorin. The last time Thorin saw his One was as she left for Dale that morning waving gaily and smiling happily as she left.
It is for this reason that Thorin has not married or sired any children of his own, having long ago pledged not to love nor marry another even to secure the line of Durin after his One was killed by Smaug.
*_ 4 _*
He is afraid of snakes especially poisonous ones. It's just something about the way they can slither into the most tiny and unexpected places that sends a chill down his spine.
When Thorin and his two sibling's Frerin and Dis were young and all in their forties which would be late teens for the race of Men they found themselves in a unending prank war between each other. Each of their pranks kept getting more and more drastic each day and they were soon resorting to causing each other fear using their sibling's greatest fears to enact them.
As it turned out Thorin had never really liked snakes before that but then again nor had he loved them but after the prank war was all said and done he learned to loath and hate them more than ever before to the extent of great fear.
Frerin had thought to gather up several dozens of snakes from who knew where and stared placing them randomly around the mountain in places that he knew his older brother frequented the most; this included his bedroom and unfortunately his personal bathing chambers. It started out harmless enough with Thorin nearly stepping on them as he went about his day but when Frerin and Did - who had decided to take Frerin's side for a while - saw that their older brother was not reacting to them they stepped up their game by planting many of them in his bed, on his bookshelf behind his much loved Elven poetry books and again unfortunately in the tub in Thorin's bathing room.
Thorin had excused his younger siblings putting him in his bed at night he could deal with that, he didn't even blink when three snakes fell off if bookshelf when he pulled out a book yes it made him a little angry and irritated that they had touched his precious books but he once again let it pass. It wasn't until one day when he was bathing a rather large -in his mind at the time though it was no larger than an average garden snake - and bright moss green snake slithered up the drain pipe while he was still in the tub and bit him very close to a place no Dwarrow should be bitten by a snake.
That bite is what had done him in. He spent four days in the Healing Room's recovering from a lesser poisonous snake bite and then when he was finally declared healthy enough to leave he went on a temper fueled prank full rampage that returned the favor to both of his siblings ten fold.
It is for this reason that Thorin is afraid of snakes and the way they can slither their way through almost every small space - and pipe - possible.
*_ 5 _*
He was always closer to his grandmother Queen Freya before she died than anyone else in his family.
As a young Dwarrow before Smaug came he had always been closer to his Grandmother Queen Freya than to anyone else in the royal family including his own mother. He would spend nearly all of the time he had free between his lesson and training to he an Heir with her in her study or in her garden which she tended herself and in turn taught him to care for too.
No matter if they sat in silence drinking his Grandmother favorite kind of tea and reading Elven poetry books for which she shared her grandson's passion they would often be found together. Their time together grew even more often when Queen Freya's health started to decline, then Thorin was with her even at the times he was suppose to be at his lessons and training. He was with her when she died and then it had been his Grandfather he turned to for comfort since he had known her the best and so could tell him stories about her even though she had passed.
The bond between Thorin and his Grandfather King Thror held strong until King Thror started to fall into Dragon Sickness. It was then that Thorin once again caring for one of his beloved Grandparents. But he had still been closer to his Grandmother when she was alive than he was to his Grandfather. He had been drawn into his Grandmothers gentle disposition, her inert kindness and her unmeasurable well of strength and compassion.
It is for this reason that Thorin was closer to his Grandmother than the rest of his family.
*_ 6 _*
Contrary to his current always serious, moody and brooding exterior disposition he was once a mischievous ever laughing and smiling dwarfling in his younger days.
When Thorin was a young he had been just like every other dwarfling happy, always joyful and smiling with a knack for mischief that was a mile long and that threatened to tare down the mountain itself sometimes or at least drive all the adults up the highest wall or down the deepest mind with craziness.
It wasn't until the year he entered his fifties that he started to curb his more reckless and impulsive actions for that was when his true training to become his father and Grandfather heir began.
His Grandfather in his Dragon Sickness had wanted to start the more stern and traditional training earlier but Thorin's mother Princess Gaenor had fought for him to remain ignorant for that weight on his shoulders until his fiftieth birthday. She somehow broke through to King Thror or maybe it had been one of Queen Freya's last spoken wishes to him but Thorin's training was put off until he turned fifty.
After that he slowly became more withdrawn and serious he had began turning into what would one day be a fine and fair. It was not until Erebor fell and they were forced to leave that the last smile of mischief and last real happy carefree laugh was seen that day had ended his dwarfling days and truly started him int the world of adulthood. The Battle of Azanulbizar took what little had been left of that little bit, the death of his younger brother Frerin hitting him harder than any physical wound and scarring him deeply though his younger sister Dis still manages to forcefully squeeze a smile somewhat resembling the ones that had graced his lips of old.
It is for this reason he is the the serious brooding and majestic Thorin Oakenshield he is today.
*_ 7 _*
His first kiss happened the first time he got drunk on his coming of age birthday party where he had snuck away with his friends and cousins Dwalin, Balin, Dáin and Gloin. Incidentally it was Dwalin who shared his first kiss much to both of their embarrassments the next morning. They still refuse to talk about it even now nearly a century latter.
On Thorin's seventy-fifth birthday, he and his cousins Dwalin, Balin, Dain and Gloin snuck out of the party that had been thrown in celebration of him taking along with them two full casks of ale and several large bottles of mead and run decides off to Dain's room's since they had been in the Ironhill's at the time where upon they spent the whole of the night and the early hours of the morning drinking until they couldn't even hold the bottle and cup of their drinks anymore.
Somewhere along that time when they were all still sober enough to remember thing that happen but drunk enough that their gate to controlling sudden and not well thought out impulses was wide open the topic of Gloin and his lass Gevina who were courting came up and whether or not they had kissed yet. (Let it be noted that they were rather drunk by this time but not too drunk.)
Their conversation somehow rounded them around to admitting if any of them had kissed a female yet to which Thorin had said "no" - even though he had courted his One before Erebor fell -, Balin said that "yes" he had kissed a female - though he refused to say whom-, Dain also said "yes" - and then proceeded to list every single one of the females both of their own race and of the race of Men that went on for nearly five minutes ending the list with a number none of them was sure to be true -, Gloin like Thorin also said that "no he hadn't" kissed a female yet - though he and Gevina and come very close several times before one of their relations interrupted them. And Dwalin who had been blushing in embarrassment as he also said "no" glared at his brother and Dain when they pointed out in their words that "he the mean fierce warrior Dwalin hadn't even kissed a female, yet he has gone to battle and that it is kissing someone that makes you a man not swinging any heavy and sharp object around hoping you hit something."
This all then led to both Thorin and Dwalin taking offense and being as drunk as they had been only remember the part of kissing someone not just a female that would make you a man and at the same time looked at each other with the same thing running through their head, leaned in a promptly kissed each other straight on the lips causing the other three to breakout into drunken gales of laughter and both Thorin and Dwalin to wipe their lips out with their sleeves and rinse their mouths out with more ale.
The next morning found all five of them waking up with the worst hang overs all of them have ever had, both casks and all the bottle of various types of alcohol empty, brief flashes of what happened the night before and then even worse head aches when they all remembered Dwalin and Thorin kissing. Both Thorin and Dwalin refused to look each other in the eye and could barely speak to each other without blushing madly for a month afterwards.
It is for this reason that Balin, Gloin and Dain sometimes end up having random spontaneous laughing fits when they recall this specific memory of Dwalin and Thorin's first kisses.
*_ 8 _*
He once had a phase where he tied a bed sheet around his neck using it as a 'majestic' cape and strutted around the mountain ordering random people to do the same. Which they had done since he was the Crown Prince and next in line for the throne after his father Thráin.
When Thorin was a young dwarfling he once saw a visiting Ambassador's from Gondor wearing a cape on one of his visits to the mountain and was so enraptured with its elegant movements when the Man turned sharply and how is fanned out prettily behind him as he strode down the corridors of the mountain that he decided that he also want a cape that did as such as the Ambassador's did.
After asking his parents and even his grandparent to have one made for him and all of them refusing his request because they thought the idea of wearing capes to be frivolous he took it into his own small hands to find a cape for himself by himself.
His cape just turned out to be the sheet off his own bed that he cut in half since it was really rather much to large with his mothers sewing scissors. He then donned his new cape and went on to strut about the mountain turning sharply and walking quickly so to reenact the Rohan Ambassador's capes movement. Then coming to the conclusion that since his cape was so great he would share his discovery with everyone else he then proceeded to order nearly everyone in the mountain to don their own bed sheet cape. And it was not like they could refuse the little Prince especially since he also got all of the royal family to put on ones of their own too.
Thankfully for the whole kingdom his cape phase only lasted a week and a half though fer everyone that had unwillingly been forced to wear one it was the longest week and a half of their lives.
It is for this reason that now that he is majestic without the need of a cape Balin and Dwalin sometimes jest about him secretly wearing a cape for hair the fact that these jest are usually retaliated upon by Thorin in very creative ways at being reminded of that one phase in his life is irrelevant - except to the receivers that is-.
*_ 9 _*
His brother Frerin and he both hated each other for the first two decades of their lives. They only stopped the petty feud when they both ended up falling down a mine shaft which they had been fighting above at the time and had to spend four days lost in the complete darkness together.
As all children that suddenly have younger sibling that take up their parents time so it is not with them Thorin had for the first twenty or so years of his younger brother Frerin's life hated and loathed his new brother with a passion. It probably did not help that the line of Durin is well known for the seeming endless supply of stubbornness and it is this stubbornness which he inherited that kept the petty sibling rivalry feud going for so long. No one of the line of Durin has it in them to jut roll over and accept something as it is but they instinctively and actively oppose and challenge it with all their being.
Once Frerin had been old enough to understand just why his older brother who he looked up to hated him and understood that he too had a stubborn streak many miles long he returned the feeling along with every poisoned and barbed word they used to taunt each other.
The only reason their feud came to an end is because one day while they had been stupidly fighting very close to the edge of a very very deep mine shaft they both just fell in head over feet, over head, over body and all. They were stuck in the the dark of that mine shaft together for four days during which time they ended up talking about everything under the sun just to have something to do other than stare off into complete darkness.
And eventually the subject of their feeling towards each other came up causing yet another fight and another long talk that all concluded in forgiving each other and agreeing to start over but only after each of them and given and received quite a few bumps and bruises.
It is for this reason they were at each others throats and howling for each others blood for the first two decades they knew each other only to latter make up and forget it all happened after sharing a near death experience that was only deadly by risk of death by boredom not by the lack of food water or the fall since Dwarves are very hardy as everyone well knows.
*_ 10 _*
And ten, embarrassingly he is mortally afraid of his younger sister Dis for she can be as scary and as fierce as a dragon when she loses her temper. In fact everyone is afraid of Dis so he is not alone in that fear.
No matter their age or race females in general are scary and just plain terrifying on their best days even if its only for their unpredictability and ever changing emotions that risk shooting out of control at the slight nudge in the wrong direction. The fact that the Lady Dis daughter of Thrain and Gaenor, sister to Thorin Oakenshield, wife to Vili son of Rili, and mother to Fili and Kili was perhaps on the scariest in all of Middle Earth and made facing a dragon looking more appealing than being in the same room with her when she is about to lose her temper is inconsequential.
As a small dwarfling she had already been fiercely frightening and woe to anyone who displeased her, but when she became a mother to Fili and Kili, Thorin's own sister-sons, she suddenly became more than worse, she became beyond the farthest thinkable extreme ruinously ferocious.
Facing twenty dragons was preferable to facing his dear little sisters wrath because she was not ashamed to fight dirty which included cheap kick to the one place on Man of any race should be kicked. Ever.
It really wasn't very irrational for him to be afraid of his little sister - even their late Grandfather King Thror had been wary of her temper tantrums as a dwarfling - and if you asked any one that has met her they would surely and rightful with all certainty agree with him on his. Female in general are scary, Dwarrowdam's and some she-elves even more so, but Dis holds a whole other level all on her own that no one could hope to match. Thorin was very glad that Did had not had nay daughters because he and everyone else had a feeling that said imaginary daughter would have been just like Dis and just one of her is all Middle Earth can handle.
Which is why it is for this reason that the great Thorin Oakenshield who has never flinched at the sight of an oncoming tide of Orc's is afraid of his own sister and rightfully so for if anyone angers her they have a better chance stealing from a dragon and living to tell the tale than surviving the wrath of his beloved but beyond terrifying young sister Lady Dis.
Next Chapter : 10 Thing's You Didn't Know About...Balin.
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