@fitzjxmes continued from here
Honestly, the only reason he’d come along for the journey had been for the money and free beer. Those had been his first and only motivations for some time but that had been before he’d started to bond with the others a bit. And the things he’d seen - if his brother hadn’t been with him and seen it for himself Bombur would probably never have believed him when he re-told the tale of the journey of the company of dwarves, a wizard and a hobbit. And as of late, men.
Bofur could not wrap his mind around these men that seemed very out of place. Men as a kind were nothing new, he knew about them, of course, but it was these men in particular and how they had been travelling. Pulling boats when they were miles from any shores or even a river or a lake! He had been trying to talk to some of them but had been met with distance and snide remarks.
It had been curiosity and boredom that had led him to wander and even though he was not a healer by any means he knew a little bit and to see the elves do healing was something he’d never witnessed before. So he had snooped. Just a little bit and when the coast was clear he had slipped inside. He hadn’t meant to stay for long but now he was sitting comfortably on a chair and had lit his pipe, happily puffing away on it when he noticed the man in the bed closest had started to move and wake up. A grin spread around the end of his pipe before he lowered it and pointed to the man in the bed. “Nah, lad. That’s what we call stubbornness and a will to live,” he chuckled and put his pipe back between his lips. “I heard some of ‘em talk before and they said some of you should already be dead by the looks of things,” But they weren’t, all thanks to the elves.
Of course, he wouldn’t know where he was, though it was a bit surprising and it had his brows rise slightly in surprise. “This is Rivendell,” he said and gestured around the room with his pipe. “Heard of it?” he teased. Even Bofur had heard about the elves, but he’d never had the urge to find his way here or to meet an elf. Now he was surrounded by them.