Something about "Fili and Kili were the youngest dwarves in the Company of Thorin Oakenshield by several decades"
Something about "Fili and Kili were the heirs in exile to the elder, cursed, line of Durin, who had never seen wealth or comfort or even the mountain they were willing to die to reclaim"
Something about "Fili and Kili were the only dwarves, bar Bombur, who weren't taken in by the gold sickness despite it claiming every king in living memory"
Something about "Fili and Kili all but idolized Thorin despite his descent into madness, and willingly threw away their lives to defend his body"
Something about the cyclic nature of violence,
and something about the young and the hopeful and the potential for something better -
Something about all of it, every speck of goodness and safety being swallowed by war and greed far beyond their control, and -
