you get all my love if you recognize her

[valored]

I am glad you chose to name this for one of my strengths in life and not in reference to the place of my burial. It is indeed a great honor to have such a place remembered by Men and Elves alike, but I am much more pleased to have a few paragraphs in the history books telling of my deeds and the moving of my people. If we are to be remembered in lore, let it be for our determination and endurance.

Comments

[sonof_thrain]

Who might you be?

[valored]

Haleth. I am Chieftain of the Haladin.

[sonof_thrain]

[mutters] Elves?

[valored]

Men. [ she looks faintly amused ] I have no leaf-shaped ears.

[sonof_thrain]

Hmph.

How can a woman be a chieftain?

[valored]

By leading people.

Do you mean to be insulting or does it simply happen whenever you speak?

[sonof_thrain]

I have never met a human female warrior before. It is unnatural for me.

[valored]

And I have never met one of your kind before. You are unnatural to me. [ she has heard of dwarves, of course. but this is about making a point, so she's not gonna say anything else. ]

[sonof_thrain]

Dwarves are not unnatural in Middle-Earth.

I am Thorin Oakenshield, son of Thrain. King to the Mountain of Erebor.

[valored]

Woman chieftains are not either.

You are far from home. Erebor is not a place I recognize from maps of Beleriand.

[sonof_thrain]

Erebor is the kingdom inside the Lonely Mountain.

[renunciation]

That we may bring courage to those who come after us. It is a sentiment I understand well, my lady.

[valored]

It is more to remind others of who we are. My people are not great lore-masters.

belated, but omg haleth, so much love

[aciculated]

Have your people done great deeds?

[Because Leela is all about great deeds, and stories of them.]