Title: Unceilinged Air
Fandom: The Hobbit
Rating: G
Length: 134
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: The idea that Thorin had not been outside Erebor, or experienced open air is one that Richard Armitage mentioned at one point. I consider it canon for the Iron and Light 'verse. Thanks as always to Zana for letting me play in the sandbox with her.
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Summary: Down was not the problem, all that Up was.

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It was not the height of the Mountain, the sheerness of the cliffs or the distance to the rocks below that was vertiginous; no, down was not, had never been, an issue, no more than over, or up any face or rock with purchase for foot or finger or tool. It was the unending depth of sky above that made Thorin's head spin in sick circles and stomach threaten to revolt. All that unceilinged air, filled with unfixed lamps that moved and changed. He knew now, as he had not as a child of 23 that he would not fall up forever if he allowed both boots off the ground, or unclenched his fingers from udad's hand. Knowing that did not always make it any easier to bear, though perforce it must be bourn.