Bard wants 1/12 of the treasure. He doesn't know how much treasure there actually is. Why doesn't Thorin give him a decent amount and then he can leave without any trouble and still have lots of treasure. Your thoughts.
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Bard wants 1/12 of the treasure. He doesn't know how much treasure there actually is. Why doesn't Thorin give him a decent amount and then he can leave without any trouble and still have lots of treasure. Your thoughts.
Because...
A) Thorin is to greedy and stubborn for this rational thinking.
B) Say you have 12 dollars. Somebody demands 1/12 of it and the result of not giving them it is death. You give them the dollar and get on with you life, right? But if you have 12 million dollars and somebody demands 1/12 of it, you really don't want to give it them because 1/12 of a fortune is still a lot of money.
C) If Bard were smart at all, he would go inside the mountain and "help" collect his share.
D) On page 266 in the little green book Thorin says "But nothing will we give, not even a loaf's worth, under threat of force." so, back to A, he is to stubborn to just give him his twelth to make him go away.
E) Thorin says on page 266 "The price of the good and the assistance of the Lake-men we will fairly pay-- in due time." so if you give him the benifit of the doubt, he is planning to give some to Bard, but would rather wait for the reason of principal that he isn't going to gove it to Bard just because he demands it.
Bard wants 1/12 of the treasure. He doesn't know how much treasure there actually is. Why doesn't Thorin give him a decent amount and then he can leave without any trouble and still have lots of treasure. Your thoughts.
On page 286 in the TripleB [Big-ish Black Book], it states "Long hours in the past days Thorin had spent in the treasury, and the lust of it was heavy on him." I don't think Thorin wants to give away ANY of his treasure. I think that Bard and the Elvenking would check to make sure it's 1/12 of the treasure too..
Bard wants 1/12 of the treasure. He doesn't know how much treasure there actually is. Why doesn't Thorin give him a decent amount and then he can leave without any trouble and still have lots of treasure. Your thoughts.
Well Kyle on page 266 in my little green book Thorin said "it is in my mind that to ask what share of thier inheritance you would have paid to our kindred, had you found the hoard unguarded and us slain." so i think that Thorin really sees the treasure as HIS families treasure.
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Bard wants 1/12 of the treasure. He doesn't know how much treasure there actually is. Why doesn't Thorin give him a decent amount and then he can leave without any trouble and still have lots of treasure. Your thoughts.
On page 239 it says that The mere fleeting glimpses of treasure which they had caught as they went along had rekindled all the fire of their dwarvish hearts;and when the heart of a dwarf, even the most respectable, is weakened by gold and by jewels, he grows suddenly bold, and he may become fierce. So that pretty much answers the question right thier.
