Title: Balin’s Colony - Year One: Day Sixteen
Author: Huinárë
Characters/Pairing: Balin,Ori
Rating: G
Warnings: Alludes to a violent death (didn’t think it warranted PG)
Book/Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Tolkien. No profit reaped by myself, aside from a wealth of intellectual giddiness.
Summary: Balin wants, among other things, for his company in Khazad-dûm to have better helms. Answering the prompt “Note.”
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Óin -
Should your party locate armory, please be on lookout for helms with better visors. Would prefer to avoid another incident like Flói’s. Orcs maybe noted weakness in our armor. Archers-too craven to get near enough to look you in the eye-shoot you in the eye instead. I digress.
- B
Óin -
Do hurry up and find helms lest Balin meet poor F’s fate. B fixated on notion of going to look in Mirrormere despite danger-and Orcs not yet a fortnight dispersed. Distracted him yesterday-’Let’s search twenty-first hall, and mayhap find secreted away some artefact.’
- Ori
______Endnote: Author’s assumption is that Ori’s suggestion led to Balin finding “Durin’s Axe,” mentioned in the much-damaged Book of Mazarbul in FotR.