#supreme surrender

Khím is a young 68 years old Dwarf girl, born in 2876 TA. Born in the Ered Luin, she came to live in Erebor three years after the Battle of Five Armies. She's an only daughter, and still lives with her parents. Her 'adad is a miner, and her 'amad is a saleswoman on Dale's markets. Hoping to have a son, her parents gave her a male name. Since her birth, her fate seemed sealed: she'd marry and live to raise as many children as possible. But it was without counting her independant and impulsive temperament. She's literally a tomboy, refusing to wear dresses, and prefering weapons to embroidery. She secretly trains a lot with the sword, and is the forge apprentice. She has a great sense of loyalty and friendship, but doesn't have many friends. She fears nothing and no one except her king, Thorin Oakenshield, and the crown prince Fili. She’s impressed by their charism and majesty. Too tall for her age, her great shame is her lack of facial hair. The other dwarf maids make fun of her, and he-dwarves call her "elfling". Her tomboy behaviour does not help to clear up the confusion. Khím seeks the company of boys (girls tend to reject her), and in this sense, she found her male alter ego in Kili.

TO all the spirits of Love that wander by  Along his love-sown harvest-field of sleep  My Lady lies apparent; and the deep Calls to the deep; and no man sees but I. The bliss so long afar, at length so nigh,  Rests there attained. Methinks proud Love must weep  When Fate’s control doth from his harvest reap The sacred hour for which the years did sigh. First touched, the hand now warm around my neck  Taught memory long to mock desire: and lo!  Across my breast the abandoned hair doth flow, Where one shorn tress long stirred the longing ache: And next the heart that trembled for its sake  Lies the queen-heart in sovereign overthrow. This is a Petrarchan sonnett, divided into an octave and a sextet.

Lies the queen-heart in sovereign overthrow.