"Aye, as I said, the castle will revive you from death if it chooses to do so," Thorin puffed on his pipe.

It was indeed rather wrong, even in Thorin's opinion. As much as he would enjoy seeing his loved ones again, they were dead and gone and with Mahal in his feasting hall. It was not Thorin's, nor this castle's place to recall them from such a paradise.

"I've seen it - this place can be as cruel as it is euphoric."