The Song of Durin
"Thieves! Fire! Murder!" Radagast shouted as he approached the company.
"Radagast!" Gandalf laughed
"Wait there's something else coming." Dwalin shouted as a russet coloured wolf burst through the underbrush. Dwalin went to kill the beast with his axes.
"Even think of touching the Wolf and I'll shoot you between the eyes before you get chance to blink." The rider growled
"Selene, that isn't polite." Radagast chasted her.
"I'm sorry I forgot with elven blood comes politeness or are you forgetting what race my father belonged to?" Selene teased; Radagast shook his head and turned to Gandalf.
Selene climbed down from the warg and pressed her head to its and the wolf nuzzled her face and whined softly causing her to laugh. Her hair fell down her back it was pitch black but it was coarse and held in a mix of dwarven and elven braids, she stood taller than most of the dwarves at about 5'5, her ears had the distinctive elven point and her eyes where a piercing icy blue much like Thorin's. She was dressed in tight fitting red armour with matching gauntlets that where inscribed in dwarvish runes and black leather gloves, all of the dwarves stared at her, at the grace in which she moved.
"It is rude to stare." She provoked
"We weren't staring!" Dwalin roughly countered.
She laughed and slowly walked up to him swinging her hips seductively. His eyes instantly watched them.
"Selene." Gandalf warned
"Oh come on Olórin lighten up, Curumo isn't here you know." Selene pouted
"She's like a child." Thorin commented to Balin
"That is because Lord Thorin that I am, I was only three when Erebor was lost, and because of that dragon I lost both of my parents." Selene whipped her head around meeting his eyes.
"What do you mean?" Fìli asked
"Because Smaug took the mountain my father died at the Battle of Azanulbizar, my mother died months later after having my siblings in the Lothlorien." She replied
"Where are your siblings now?" Ori asked
"I do not know." She replied quietly
"How can you not know?" Kìli asked
"They were taken from me, tell me Master dwarf would your elders trust you in taking care of infants when you were 29 and what if those elders where not your kin but elves, ha they are not even my kin, I was not given a choice but I have never stopped looking for them." She answered
"How were they not your kin?" Thorin asked, looking into her eyes and recognising them somewhere but brushed it off instantly.
"Do you not think I'm short for an Elf?" she replied
"Are you part dwarf?" Bilbo asked
Selene smiled at him "Yes Master hobbit, half dwarf, half elf. In all my years I have never visited the west past Bree so I have never seen a hobbit close up but I know Olórin cares for you dearly." Selene replied
"Thorin Oakenshield meet Anexia Elanessë, but she prefers Selene, the red." Gandalf introduced them.
"Just as you prefer Gandalf." She smiled at the aging wizard
"What is she?" Dwalin asked
"Well I'd say she would be a Dwelf." Bofur joked.
Selene laughed "I like that sir, a Dwelf no doubt that would have amused my father."
"Selene is an Istari, the pupil of Estë, Nessa and Nienna of the Valar. Just like Radagast and I." Gandalf explained
"When you spoke of us did you forget me, Alatar and Pallando?" Selene asked with a small smile on her lips.
Gandalf began mumbling causing Selene to laugh and place a small kiss on his cheek.
"I jest old friend." She smiled "Aiwendil show him what we found at Dol-Guldur." She said to Radagast. Who nodded and gestured Gandalf over.
Selene smiled and turned to her saddle and removed her bow and sword both of which were gifts from Lady Galadriel and then her daggers which she secured in her boots which had been gifts from Lord Elrond.
"Bofur, at your service." Bofur said bowing
"Selene at yours." She grinned bowing back.
"So lass would you like me to tell you the names of our company?" Bofur asked
"I'm sure I could guess, the larger dwarf is your brother Bombur and next to him is your cousin Bifur who only speaks Khuzdul. Then the ginger dwarf is Glòin and his brother is Òin is the healer with the trumpet." She pointed each dwarf out. "Also there is Dori, Nori and Ori, Dori is the eldest, the one with a star shaped head is Nori and the youngest is Ori who is covered in all that knitting, which by the way it is too warm for then there is Balin who is the older of the Dwarves, no doubt the one with the keenest mind then the warrior is Dwalin, whose reputation precedes him but last time we met he had more hair." She said causing Bofur to laugh. "Then there is the Durins, naturally the eldest being Thorin, the blonde is Fìli and the one with dark hair just like his mother Dìs is Kìli who is also the archer of your company and the Hobbit is Mister Bilbo Baggins, son of Belladonna Took."
"How do you possibly know that?" Bofur asked
"As I said Olórin has a fondness for hobbits I have a fondness for Durin's Folk, though I have spent the best part of the last few years in the Greenwood." She replied before taking her staff which was a few inches shorter than her and was carved from ash and held a large green stone at the top of the staff. She began to sing softly
"A King he was on carven throne,
In many-pillared Halls of stone,
With Golden Roof and Silver floor,
And runes of power upon the door.
The light of Sun and star and moon,
In shining lamps of crystal hewn,
Undimmed by cloud or shade of night,
There shone forever fair and bright,
The world is grey, the mountains old,
The forge's fire is ashen-cold,
No harp is wrung, no hammer falls,
The darkness dwells in Durin's Halls
The shadow lies upon his tomb,
In Moria, in Khazad-dum,
But still the sunken stars appear,
In dark and windless Mirrormere.
There lies his crown in water deep,
Till Durin wakes again from sleep."
She turned to find the dwarves staring at her the elder with shinning eyes. Thorin broke the silence.
"I have not heard that song since Erebor fell and I know of only one who sung that song, who taught you that?" he asked
"My mother." She replied
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-The Archfiend