Thorin and Pack Goat Traveling 1

Back to Thorin (but of course)! This in-progress blue pencil sketch is on 11x14 Strathmore drawing paper and will probably be transferred to Bristol for inking.

I've been obsessed with the story-not-told in Ered Luin (most likely also because I play LOTRO and love going back there with my characters). I like to imagine Thorin would go away on trips for trade and supplies on his own, so he could think and be alone. Perhaps here, he is thinking of happy days gone by, family lost, Erebor in its glory -- the mighty kingdom of Durin's Folk. And while picking up supplies, I am sure he is also searching for information: where is his father? Any detail. Any hint. Any rumor.... always searching and wondering.