Title: Stone-Sense
Fandom: Hobbit
Rating: G
Length: 120
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: Thanks go to Zana, Morgynleri & Icka for encouragement & sanity-checking.
Summary: Stone may speak to all the senses





There are those for whom the rock has flavor. Dwarves who can taste the air in a mineshaft and know the quality of the ore, the potential of the veins than run through the stone. Dwarves to whom the water that seeps through the layers of slate, runs over and under the slabs of granite, through limestone and chalk sings of the long journey and the wonders touched therein. Bifur is such a one, and while the orcish axe may have taken Westron from him, it did not reeve him of the sense, richness and complexity of stone.
Erebor tasted of copper and char and molten gold when they enter the Mountain the first time through the Side Door.