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05-04-2004, 04:46 PM
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Maybe Thorin just wasn't the marrying type of guy - dwarf, I should say. I don't know about Dwarves, but the forge isn't the first place I go for when looking for a husband.
 I also get the impression the drive to keep the royal bloodlines going is rather more absent in Dwarves than it is in humans. Suppose Thorin did have a family, wouldn't it perhaps have kept him off going on such a desperate journey to boot out a full grown dragon out of the old family-mountain?
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05-05-2004, 11:53 AM
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I think that he probably wasn't thinking too much about children or marriage...he had other things on his mind. Like revenge, treasure, and the kingdom he should have inherited. Once he had those, he would have probably married and had kids, IF he wan't too old.
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