Drabbles: The Third Age by Zdenka

Chapter 1

Dís does her part to support her family after the Battle of Azanulbizar. (Dís, with Thorin and Thrain. Warning for referenced character death.)

“To the anvil!” said Thorin when he returned from Azanulbizar.

“To the anvil!” Dís echoed him, her voice still touched by the higher tones of childhood, and their father Thráin smiled grimly. She already knew enough to assist her father and brother in the forge, but now she learned to make nails and horseshoes, lanterns and farm tools for the folk of Eriador. It was long, tedious work with little room for craft or beauty, but it kept her family and her people from starving or beggary. And with each hammer blow, she sang the death-song for her brother Frerin.