User blog:Burglebuber/The Goblin wars

Prologue
None of my characters are characters from LOTR except Sauron, but they are the same races. This story has no LOTR refrences, or anything of the sort. The world is the same as it is in LOTR though. This takes place in the early third age, before the events of the hobbit. Enjoy!

Chapter 1
Dristur the dwarf stepped gingerly down the stairs of Silver Deep. He was a simple miner, an unknown to most. He had found some Iron, and, after showing it to the foreman, Blogir, he was going down to mine more.

"Ah, there you are!" He said to the ore, as he began mining it with his pick. There were other miners. Gromi, the oldest miner, walked up to Dristur.

"I saw a large print in a muddy puddle some hundred yards away! Let me show you, the other miners have already crowded around it. They are guessing who, or what has made it!" Said the stout old dwarf. Dristur followed him deeper into the dark mines.

"Looks like a print of a large cow!" Said a dwarf.

"Nay, this is a dwarven boot-print. Cows don't live in the mines, fool!" Said an older dwarf.

"I think it's a troll-print!" Said Gromi. All the miners looked at him.

"Old fool! Trolls don't live down here!" Said the older dwarf who believed it was a dwarf print.

"Well. dwarven-boots don't have toes." Said Gromi. Dristur agreed.

"We must tell Foreman Blogir!" He said. The dwarves agreed, with the exception of the old one, so they began heading for the mine's exit. When they were about half way there, a spear dropped from the tunnel's ceiling. They all looked up, to see an ugly goblin!

"My face is the last thing you'll see!" He said as he dropped into the mines. There was a hole in the roof. Two more goblins followed him.

"Dristur! Take these dwarves to safety! I shall hold them off!" Said Gromi, drawing his axe. Dristur drew a small hatchet and began running, with all the other miners following, towards the second exit. It was a cave that lead to the back of a mountain. All they had to do then, was go around the mountain. The dwarves could hear goblin cries echoing through the caves. They were pursued!