Distant Peaks by Himring

Distant Peaks

Ori had done a drawing in the margin of the latest mining accounts. It seemed unusual for careful Ori. Not that the drawing was careless—a precise sketch of three peaks. They were not mountain peaks of the Ered Luin.

‘I dreamed last night,’ said Ori, catching Gimli’s questioning gaze—and when Gimli continued to look puzzled:

‘You do not know them?’

He dipped his pen in the ink and started labelling the peaks. Caradhras Ori wrote. ‘Barazinbar,’ he translated aloud.

Gimli observed and afterwards he recognized their shapes elsewhere in metal and in stone. Soon he was dreaming, too.

Chapter End Notes

Originally written for the Tolkien100 prompt "Distant Peaks".

Something like this scene can be extrapolated from Gimli's words in FOTR as they draw near to Moria.
The idea here is that Gimli has already heard the names of Moria's mountains in tales, but has not yet learned to recognize the shapes of their peaks in artworks.