While the madness grows in Thorin, with his only focus on finding the Arkenstone in the treasure hoard, the people of Lake-town who would benefit from the gold the most, are packing what the Long Lake had washed ashore, carry their wounded, and hope to find someplace they could start again.
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Fili, Kili, Bofur, and Óin walk along the slopes of the Lonely Mountain. After having survived the terror and destruction of Lake-town, they have finally reached their journey’s end. As they slowly march to their new home, the music playing is the Erebor Theme, masterfully composed by Howard Shore.
Continue reading “The Treasure Hoard of Thrór”Bard, the Dragon-Slayer
While Thorin and one part of his company head back into the Mountain and the rest row their boat across the Long Lake to reunite with them, the people of Lake-town are doing what they can to stay the cold that is descending upon them. What they can salvage, they sprawl across the lake shore, building teepees out of cloth and wet wood as well as building fires with the same materials to keep dry and warm.
Continue reading “Bard, the Dragon-Slayer”Return To Me
The death of Smaug has done nothing to reduce the evil that has begun to gather its forces to strike upon Middle-Earth. The dragon would have been a perfect ally for their cause, however, even without him, the Orcs fuelled by the evil of Sauron are very capable of inflicting damage upon all races of the Earth.
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As Lake-town burns under the sadistic maneuver of Smaug, the Dwarf company of Erebor still watch out of Ravenhill unto the destruction that they in part caused. Bofur, Óin, Fili and Kili still row their boat with Tauriel and Bard’s children on board trying to escape Lake-town before death finds them.
Continue reading “Death of Smaug”Attack on Lake-town
With a warning that shook the foundations of Lake-town, Smaug had announced his coming. Though the people of Lake-town are very much aware of the danger of their reality, there is not much they can do. The bridge to the shore and their boats are their only means of survival. However, the dragon is only taunting them, toying with their fear, leaving them in suspense.
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Bolg: “Send word to Dol Guldur Oakenshield has reached the Mountain! Go! You! Come with me.”
Meanwhile, in Lake-town, Legolas kills Orcs on his path toward facing Bolg. When he does face him, the ensuing fight leaves Legolas bleeding. For the first time in his long life, he sees his own blood coming out of his nose. After the initial shock of it, his anger toward Bolg rises to a level higher than it was before. He mounts a horse and goes in pursuit of the great Orc.
Continue reading “The Forges of Erebor”Path to the Forges
The dragon has unleashed his fury. He may have been dormant for decades but his wrath and sense of vengeance has not remained idle. It would appear that he has been waiting and expecting Thorin to come and try and reclaim his throne. Now that the company has arrived it leaves Smaug only to execute his long standing plan of dealing death to all Dwarves who enter his kingdom.
Continue reading “Path to the Forges”Conversations with Smaug
Lake-town would already have been in a state of preparedness had it not been for the Master and Alfrid who hindered Bard in his plan. Now, there is no telling whether they will have anyone defending them from the dragon. The Dwarves still wait outside the door of Erebor. Thorin’s madness is beginning to take shape and with it his ability to govern with reasonable decisions.
Continue reading “Conversations with Smaug”The Man, the Dwarf, and The Hobbit
The world is in peril. Residents of Lake-town have experienced the same earthquake-like event that the Dwarves have felt under their feet. They are all aware of what has been aroused within the mountain to produce it. They all fear for their lives and the turn their fates will take once that sound escapes the confines of a mountain. And still within that same mountain a lonely Hobbit is conversing with a dragon.
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