Board Thread:Lore Texts/@comment-25012056-20170529191916

I made this as an example for a suggestion of such lore-texts. The title can be corrected to Khuzdul if someone sees fit.

Word has just reached the East-city that Dúrin is dead. What the facts are remains uncertain: of the three warriors that were found fleeing frantically along the Zirakzigil Road, two have gone completely mad and the third is badly shaken. Náin is now the King of Khazad-dûm, but he is the king of a city under attack by a demon of apparent immeasurable power. Here is what my company has gathered of the story. It was known that King Dúrin VI had gone north to the Lodes of Barazinbar to oversee the mining of mithril there. With his age, this was worrying. Dúrin as of late has come under the Sickness, the sickness of the mind that had befallen every king of the Longbeards since Dúrin III. But it was noted by many that in our king the hold of the Sickness was powerful, more potent than we had seen before. He ordered expanded mithril quotas, and left north because he was convinced that the miners were slacking. What exactly happened next is a mystery. The sane refugee said they burst into a cavern, where Dúrin and all the guards and miners save they were slain by a demon. They fled to Dúrin’s Crossroads at once; yet the monster was close behind and they say that the Mining Halls are entirely lost. Warriors have been sent to investigate this, but few believe they will return. What kind of demon was unearthed down in the bowels of Barazinbar, the Redhorn, is beyond our knowledge. The sane refugee claims it to be shadow and flame, a thing of untold power and malice; he will say no more. The other two, however, will talk about nothing else. They constantly ramble about Dúrin’s Bane, the Flame of the Deep, and its insurmountable power. Náin will only give up Khazad-dûm over his own corpse. He has issued an order that the Great Gates are to be sealed from within and without, and that none will leave the city until the demon is fought off. He has ordered every dwarf in Khazad-dûm to fight to the death to preserve the city of their forefathers. A great warhammer of silversteel has been forged for him. He has sent the bulk of the armies of the Longbeards to Dúrin’s Crossroads and to the city-sections near the Endless Stair. We will defeat the demon or die fighting. Against the power of Dúrin’s Bane, we are likely to do the latter.
 * 1) title: Khazad-dûm Military Log, 9-17, 1980 TA
 * 2) author: Thramili, son of Narvi, Scribe of Dúrin
 * 3) types: durins_folk

Hope you guys enjoy.

Gen. Grievous1138 (LOTR Mod Wiki Admin) comlink 19:19, May 29, 2017 (UTC) 