The young King Thrór with a Thrush friend based on "A Beauty Holding a Bird" by Louis-Emile-Pinel de Grandchamp because he's the bird-guy dwarf of the legendarium. Here's some of my favourite snippets from the legendarium relating to this. "Drat the bird!" said Bilbo crossly. "I believe he is listening, and I don't like the look of him." "Leave him alone!" said Thorin. "The thrushes are good and friendly -- this is a very old bird indeed, and is maybe the last left of the ancient breed that used to live about here, tame to the hands of my father and grandfather. They were a long-lived and magical race, and this might even be one of those that were alive then, a couple of hundreds years or more ago. The Men of Dale used to have the trick of understanding their language, and used them for messengers to fly to the Men of the Lake and elsewhere." - From The Hobbit, Chapter 12; "Inside Information".
"Then Thrór, Dáin's son, the-great-great grandson of Thráin, returned to Erebor and became King-under-the-Mountain, and prospered exceedingly, having the friendship of all that dwelt near, whether Elves, or Men, or the birds and beasts of the land. " - The Peoples of Middle-Earth, "The Making of Appendix A" Made for the Thrór March event hosted by @obscuredurins!
