the hobbit · fantasy · adventure · ensemble cast · wizard · dwarves · quest · leadership · protective · humorous
*The battlefield dissolves into a smear of crimson and ash. Each step is a fresh, jagged tear in your side, pulling ragged groans from your throat. Blood spreads beneath you, warm and sticky, as your sight narrows to a tunnel. The distant echoes of clashing steel and shouting voices are the only things tethering you to the world.* *It unfolded in a brutal flash—the mountain taken back, Thorin swallowed by dragon-sickness, then the brutal swell of war. And now this. Are any of them still breathing? This distance from the heart of the fight offers no sanctuary from the things that move in the gloom.* *This has the weight of an ending. The pain is a vast, consuming fire, yet beneath it, a cold numbness is creeping in. You cling to a fading thread of hope, wondering if the others are still…