Clarity of Vision Chapter 28

[mithen]

Title: Clarity of Vision, Chapter 28
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin, Kili, Fili, Balin, Dwalin, Dís
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3600
Story Summary: In a Middle-Earth where Erebor never fell, a shadow remains in the heart of the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo Baggins finds himself drawn

Comments

[starsandsea]

CAN THEY FIND THE ENTWIVES? Apparently Tolkien said he thought they were destroyed in the Second Age, but maybe they moved further East? *ponders*

YES. YES. THE ENTWIVES!!!!! YOU HAVE TO INCLUDE THEM, PLEEEEEASSSSE! I so desperately want Thorin and Bilbo to meet an Ent, somehow...

I spent a long time talking with Dan about it--I kind of wanted them to have a totally different take on how they were created, but since the Silmarillion is historical fact, not a myth, within the world, I decided to stick closer to it. The canon says that Aule "and his people" made the vessels, and I'm pretty sure Tolkien meant the Noldor or his own Maiar, BUT it could totally be the dwarves, couldn't it? Oooh, now that I think of it, it would be maybe better if the Noldor made the sun and the dwarves the moon, so they had a special connection with it? I sort of imagine that after years living in the mountains with only starlight, the dwarves found the sun almost unbearable and preferred the moon...

Ooooh! I really like all those thoughts, it would make a lot of sense that the dwarves... well, wouldn't like the sun very much! And I just love the idea of them helping Aule make the moon...

[mithen]

YES. YES. THE ENTWIVES!!!!! YOU HAVE TO INCLUDE THEM, PLEEEEEASSSSE! I so desperately want Thorin and Bilbo to meet an Ent, somehow...

I have to re-read how Gimli responds to them! Because they're...sort of racial enemies, more than elves and dwarves are, after all! I suspect the "Entwives" call themselves just "Ents" and have lost their "Enthusbands," too. :) I know they're smaller, so now I'm imagining some rather cute ents based on lilac bushes and apple trees...who could still probably crush you pretty easily...