Prompt: Ax

Request

  After a week in Imladris, the dwarves had finally relaxed enough to set their axes aside while they learned to make friends. Their king, however, clearly still had something on his mind. 

  He sat across from Elrond now, drinking wine before the fire. The flames glittered in the young king's eyes. Elrond sipped his wine and watched Thror over the rim of his goblet. Whatever the dwarf was planning, it was taking a good deal of courage to ask his question.

  Yet even Elrond was not prepared for the request.  

  "What do you know of the uses of ithildin?

*Note ithildin s a substance created by the elves that can only be seen in starlight and moonlight. The "moon-runes" on Thror's map of the Lonely Mountain, while created by the dwarves, are likely made partly from ithildin.