take it for himself! It pays for Bilbo to drag Thorin down with him, because a healthy Thorin is a threat. He’ll start listening to the voice of reason, Balin or Gandalf. We don’t need that, we need to encourage Thorin’s distrust and suspicion. (5/5)

table. After getting everything he wanted, he can’t stop being possessive. He puts on his gorgeous gold armour and crown, literally decked out in his illness. He’s also very possessive of Bilbo - he won’t betray him like everyone else. He even gave him the Arkenstone, didn’t(4/5)

anything except his Ring and Thorin, who is able to protect them - hence the mithril coat (for as long as Thorin doesn’t start wanting the Ring for himself).

Thorin lost everything. For most of his life, he was struggling, working as a blacksmith just to put food on the (3/5)

portraits, a comfortable chair. The Ring devoured Bilbo’s attachments to those things, leaving only one. Now the Ring is the most important thing to him, everything else is just background noise.
He stands in the middle of a magnificent treasure hall, but he doesn’t need (2/5)

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