booklover311921 and MockingjayEverdeen12, here is my songfic for the Songfic Contest. I would advise you to watch the video first. So that you can get a feel for the sound of the dwarves. Unless of course you have already watched the movie.
This is my first songfic therefore I'm not sure what I'm doing, so here goes nothing...
Far over the Misty Mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day,
To seek the pale enchanted gold.
All dwarves remember Erebor, the place of Baruk-Kahzâd. The piles of gold, the weapons of legend.
And their collective need to avenge it was powerful.
The dwarves of yore made mighty spells
As hammers fell, like ringing bells
In places deep where dark things sleep
In hallow hall beneath the fells
The clang of hammers against steel never stopped ringing in the minds of the hopeful dwarves. The smell of smoke from the blazing furnaces was strong.
For ancient king and elvish lord
There many a gleaming golden hoard
They shaped they wrought, and light they caught
To hide in gems on hilt of sword.
The sciences of the dwarves of old were of a golden age long gone. They could capture light with little stones. Before 'it' came.
On silver necklaces they strung
The flowering stars, on crowns they hung
The dragon-fire, in twisted wire
They meshed the light of moon and sun.
Far over the Misty Mountains cold
To dungeons deep and caverns old
We must away ere break of day
To find our long forgotten gold
Many had tried to reclaim it, and just as many had failed.
Goblets they carved for themselves
And harps of gold where no man delves
There lay they long, and many a song
Was sung unheard by men or elves
Then there had been songs of joy and toil. Parties for hearty hearts. But nothing could still 'its' coming.
The pines were roaring on the height
The winds were moaning in the night
The fire was red, it flaming spread
The trees like torches blazed with light
It came in power, in youth, in greed. The red flame that could burn anything. The Dwarf King's hoard drew 'it' like an orc to blood.
The bells were ringing in the dale
And men looked up with faces pale
The dragon's ire, more fierce than fire
laid low their towers and houses frail
'It' came in a fury, for 'its' need of wealth was dangerous. It almost matched the King's sad greed.
The mountain smoked beneath the moon
The dwarves, they heard the tramp of doom
they fled their hall to dying fall
Beneath his feet, beneath the moon.
We were the only ones who could do anything about him, but we were fearful. We fled into our fortress, there with all the loot.
And he descended on us all. His flame and fury, his gruesome might, and his grotesque frame. We fought and fought to no avail. We tried to save the king, but dragon's sickness overcame him. And we burned and burned.
The dragon should fear us after the anger he aroused. The full might of
dwarven kind shall swing the axe of vengeance and end it all. Smaug should fear for his life!
Far over the Misty Mountains grim
To dungeons deep and caverns dim
We must away ere break of day
To win our harps and gold from him!
The company of thirteen dwarves and not one other.
By Thorin Oakenshield
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Several days later...
"Gandalf!" I burst, "It would be demoralizing to have a halfling on this trip. How dare you do this to a future king!"
"Because, Thorin, that is what you are. A future king. And kings must do what it takes to help their people. And if that means working alongside a Hobbit, so be it." Gandalf reasoned.
"I asked you for a burglar, not a useless halfling with no experience in fighting or questing." I couldn't help but feel anger towards this wizard who could so easily pass off the destruction he could have just wrought upon my company.
"Just tell your company to come to Bag End in the Shire and remember to come separately," Gandalf ordered me, the prince, "we don't want Bilbo to suspect anything. The house will be marked with the sign of the Burglar. Now good bye, and good luck."
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And that is how it began, the journey for Erebor. And the company of fourteen: thirteen dwarves, and a hobbit.
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