I'm English and I live in a beautiful medieval city with a great husband. Three adult children are scattered around the country. I've been a Tolkien fan all my life and an admirer of Richard Armitage for some years. When my favourite actor finally got the part of Thorin in a favourite book, this gave me the impetus - at last - to sit down and write. I've discovered that it's great fun! I'm steadily putting up about 30 Thorin stories, all under one title. Just hoping that the film will inspire me to write more.

PS I've now seen the film and RA's Thorin is just as good as I thought he would be. I do hope that you recognise the film Thorin in my stories even though I wrote them before the film came out.