While on journeys, Fíli and Kíli both wore blue hoods, and played fiddles. īoth brothers were killed while defending the mortally wounded Thorin Oakenshield in the Battle of Five Armies, and all three were buried with honor. Also, with Bilbo, they found the side-door leading into the mountain. Īt the feet of the Lonely Mountain, Fíli and Kíli scouted Ravenhill and found the Front Gate with Balin and Bilbo. The brothers accompanied Thorin and Bilbo to Lake-town while the others rested by the river. They escaped the cells thanks to Bilbo, traveling down the river in barrels until they reached Lake-town. With the other Dwarves, Fíli and Kíli encountered spiders and were later imprisoned by the Elvenking Thranduil. įíli and Kíli depicted by Angelo Montanini

It was they that found the Front Porch while in the Misty Mountains. Īs the youngest Dwarves, Fíli and Kíli had the sharpest eyes, and were often sent scouting or searching. Fíli's most distinguishing feature was his long nose, the longest of any of the Dwarves in Thorin's company. They were also nephews of Frerin, grandsons of Thráin II, and great-grandsons of Thrór. Still, he took his job seriously, and when he was assigned to cover a dragon's death by crash-landing into the Cuyahoga, he headed over to the accident site with only a few curses.Fíli and Kíli were nephews of Thorin, who was the elder brother of their mother, Dís. And suddenly there was a shift in the population as humans fled the burg while dwarves, elves, dragons, ogres, gnomes, mages, and every other denizen of the fantasy realm on the other side of the Portal began moving into town.Īnd whether he wanted to or not, Maxwell had found himself covering stories that sometimes took him far from his political beat and into way too much danger both magical and mundane. But twelve years ago a magical Portal had opened into Cleveland, a Portal that had ruined much of Cleveland's modern-day technology even as it released magical energy all over town. He wasn't interested in working on 'fuzzy gnome' stories, or any of the other unbelievable tales that should end up only in sensationalist rags. Kline Maxwell was a serious political reporter. An omnibus edition of Dragons of the Cuyahoga and The Dwarves of Whiskey Island

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