[This place is not right, and it troubles him; to be reborn, to be robbed of his crafts and name, at least for couple of decades - it is not what he expected when he felt the darkness overcome him, and it is not what he would have wanted either. And then to be reborn as something other than dwarves, even...
But that is a minor worry now. It's not the time to bring them up. Other things are more important.]
She forgave our father for bringing us into battle before any of us had even filled our 50th year; and your father when he left her. [And between those two, Thorin finds solace - it's the closest that he can come to an answer.] And she will know that we tried. [There were choices ill made; but in the end, it would not have changed a thing to make them differently.]
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But that is a minor worry now. It's not the time to bring them up. Other things are more important.]
She forgave our father for bringing us into battle before any of us had even filled our 50th year; and your father when he left her. [And between those two, Thorin finds solace - it's the closest that he can come to an answer.] And she will know that we tried. [There were choices ill made; but in the end, it would not have changed a thing to make them differently.]