there are actually 0 instances of “pilgrim.” I thought there would be one, because Thorin does at one point try to translate Mithrandir, but he comes up with “gray wanderer” and “gray traveller.” Poor showing, Thorin, you’re supposed to be good at Sindarin.
here’s three out of the ~150 sentences with “found” in them, anyway.
But Thorin, meaning not to be disarmed/had clung with all his might to Deathless’ hilt/and found himself so carried with his sword/flung through the air again, this time alone/and tumbling down the mountain’s snowy slope.
That was when the Mannish merchants packed their wares and the dwarven market truly emerged from the great gate and climbed into Dale’s low-walled environs— oh, nothing like could be found within the stone, where artistry lived, but the pale and flimsy and relatively plain things that Men liked.
“Signed and sealed into Law by Dis daughter of Thrain, Queen of Middle-Earth and the stone therebeneath, the six hundred and eighty-fifth act of her reign,” Dis droned with the wheezing cackle of the old court clerk Næmr, a fixture of their childhoods, who had outlived three kings and often forgot that it was no longer proper to treat Thror with an air of faint indulgence. “Be it known that she, the royal personage, shall have first right of refusal on the purchase of all opals found, ever, anywhere, and also the next Man who thinks it’s fucking acceptable to run a horse over her, the royal personage, is condemning that horse to death along with theirself, the rider, Thorin they’re not slowing down.”
