"I don't think you quite understand, Master Burglar." Nori shook his head. "No dwarf has ever been born out of wedlock. None. Now, we do have the occasional very happy surprise born to a widow some ten years after they lost their spouse, but that's hardly out of wedlock, now is it? And of course there's often some much older sibling who will be quite happy to help with the child."

"Indeed. Why, our dwarflings are so very legitimate, some of us already have perfectly legitimate children the day we marry!" Glóin gave a decisive nod. "Me, I'd have loved to marry my beloved as soon as I found her, but I wanted to make sure we had a proper home first, so it took us a while to get there. I'll admit it was quite the change, gaining a new wife and a two-year-old son all at once, but thankfully we'd already had some practice with caring for her baby brother for the last two years. It was quite the experience, mind, especially given that she's an only child."

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