"If we were to remove ourselves from the gold of our home, I believe it would stop afflicting Thorin. I, myself, have shown no such signs."

"Kili, either," Ushlun piped up, as if she did not wish to be excluded from the conversation. Fili nodded to agree that Kili had not seemed swayed by the gold in such a manner. "He only liked the harp, like you," she said proudly.

"I do not know if Thorin would leave willingly and to do so against his will would be treason. He is King," Fili said dutifully, and Fili was a good heir, a dutiful heir, and would never do anything to oppose the king, even if he weren't his uncle.