Title: Muradîn
Fandom: Hobbit
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana & Morgynleri for encouragement & sanity-checking. Title is Khuzdul for 'place of ghosts/spirits'
Summary: Even Erebor's ghosts guard their King




Muradîn

There were those who thought the depths of Erebor haunted. That the spirits of those destroyed by Smaug lingered near the tombs of those who left remains to be laid in stone, or that not all who fell in the Battle of Five Armies had gone on to the Halls of Waiting. Bifur chose not to disabuse those who came to him with wide eyes and wild tales of ghosts. For indeed, his King but slept, to wake again in this world, not the one to come. Discouraging the credulous made it easier to keep Thorin safe until he healed.