“King Under the Mountain”
Oil on canvas, 21″x13″ wide.
Saturday saw seething masses in the streets of Dale. There I hied to heed heralds and hearken to hymns; festival had come! And all the singing souls swarmed to Erebor, there to pass beneath the new-wrought Arch and into the Hall of the Mountain King. A great bearded lord espied me with my easel and ushered me to the front of the royal chamber; there I sketched the high seat and the cavernous shadows that made this space one with the open heavens, miles above us. Diamonds, I was told, were set into the very living rock; thus, stars would ever glimmer in the Mountain deeps….
And then, a hush settled upon us; King Thror himself strode the central aisle, calling greetings to the free folk, and like great Jupiter, ascending the steps and seating himself. Power was in his hand, and atop his scepter, radiant as the sun herself, flamed the fabled Arkenstone. Thus the folk of Dale, and of Esgaroth, and of the Woodland Realms, first beheld Thror, King Under the Mountain.
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