“Thorin’s Dream of Love”, Ch. 13 (R): Thorin’s and Kiralin’s Inauspicious Beginnings, November 25, 2013 Gratiana Lovelace
(This is an original fan fiction story by Gratiana Lovelace; All rights reserved; The characters from “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” and “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” are owned by Warner Brothers, no copyright infringement is intended) [(1) story logo left]
[From time to time, I will illustrate my story with my dream cast of: Richard Armitage as Prince Thorin Oakenshield, Lucy Griffiths as Lady Kiralin, Jeffrey Thomas as King Thror, Mike Mizrahi as Prince Thrain, Lee Pace as King Thranduil, Graham McTavish as Lord Dwalin, Orlando Bloom as Prince Legolas, Evangeline Lilly as Captain Tauriel, Ken Stott as Lord Balin, Hugo Weaving as Lord Elrond, and Adam Brown as Gralin, Aidan Turner as Kili, and Dean O’Gorman as Fili, etc.]
Author’s Mature Content Note: “Thorin’s Dream of Love” is a story of romance and intrigue set amidst the backdrop of Middle Earth. As such there will be some passages in this story involving heartfelt love scenes (R rated) and some passages involving highly dramatic moments. I will label the maturity rating of those chapters accordingly. Otherwise, the general rating for this story is PG or PG-13 due to some mature situations and topics. If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide, then please do not read the chapters with those labels. This is my disclaimer.
Author’s Recap from the previous installment: King Thorin having inadvertently but happily finally revealing to Kili that he is his son, Prince Kilorin, the two men bond as father and son now that they are no longer merely uncle and nephew--though that bond serves as their foundation. Prince Kilorin specifically asked his father how he met and fell in love with his mother Queen Kiralin. And King Thorin will now oblige him.
“Thorin’s Dream of Love”, Ch. 13 (R): Thorin’s and Kiralin’s Inauspicious Beginnings
After relating to Prince Kilorin a rather edited version of how he met and fell in love with Queen Kiralin--leaving out the passionate bits since one’s children need not know all--King Thorin reminisces more fully while Prince Kilorin goes with Fili to feed and water the ponies before the rest of the camp awakens and then they will proceed to enter the mountain. King Thorin closes his eyes and sees it all as if it were yesterday--when actually, him meeting and falling in love with Queen Kiralin occurred 174 years ago.
The year is T.A. 2769, the year before they wed--and the year before The Desolation of Smaug descended upon the peoples of Durin in the city of Dale and the Kingdom of Erebor. Young Prince Thorin [(2) right] is a strapping Dwarven lad of a mere 23 years. Prince Thorin is devilishly handsome and full of hubris since he has just spent a year living with some freedom to the East of Erebor in the Dwarven Kingdom of the Iron Hills--not being under the covert watchful eyes of dozens of courtiers and his grandfather and father allowed him to be his own person. Prince Thorin was in the Iron Hills both for diplomacy’s sake with the House of Durin needing the iron ore of those lands for their armor and other hard goods, as well as for legacy in the hope that Prince Thorin might begin to cultivate a relationship with one of the princesses there and strengthen their alliance through a marriage to such a princess. Sad to say, Prince Thorin spent more time in manly pursuits of hunting game rather than pampered princesses. He has many decades from now and into the future to find a princess to his liking anyway. Ah youth!
But now, Prince Thorin returns home to Dale and to Erebor unannounced in the middle of the Autumn Festival for Durin’s Day [(3)]--when all wishes are granted by the sovereign, within reason. Dale is abuzz with merchants plying their wares to special visitors from around the area--and further afield [(4) right]. So Prince Thorin, accompanied by his modest escort of two--his manservant squire Gralin and Gralin’s uncle Lord Dwalin, Prince Thorin’s bodyguard--mingle in amidst the crowds before they must adhere to protocol and report to his grandfather King Thror and to his father Prince Thrain in the Palace Fortress of Erebor.
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"Thorin's Dream of Love", a short story by Gratiana Lovelace, Sept. 14, 2013
Fiksi PenggemarI was inspired to write this short story after seeing a graphic shared by becLadyOakenshield on Facebook, from an Armitage Army Portrait of Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield sleeping (used in the story cover graphic).
