( chrysocolla & rhodonite )
chrysocolla: a money-making headcanon
During his life in exile; Thorin was among other things, a blacksmith for hire. While they settled into different lands in the west, it was all he could do to make some sort of life for the kin he was left with after the fall of Erebor. A sort of guard for hire was another taking on, but that was hard to pin down due to many men preferring someone of their own stature. He built, he crafted, anything to make extra coin to put right back into his people and barely any for himself.
rhodonite: if my muse prefers elegance or convenience
This is only slightly more complex; for elegance now as a King is a big deal to him. It is all about station if you think heavily on it, and Thorin has plenty to share. He would prefer elegance in his birthright; but before all of that convenience is what helped him and his people.











