The Hobbit: 10 Ridiculous Details You Probably Missed
2. Killis Stone
Background items often have interesting stories in Peter Jackson films, and Killis treasured black stone is no different. If you think back to when the dwarves are locked away in the elven cells, you will remember Kili having a conversation with Tauriel while playing with a black stone. According to the dwarf, the stone was a gift from his mother to remind him of his promise to return to her once the adventure to Erebor is done with. If you happen to look very closely at the stone you can see that it is engraved with Dwarfish runes, and these runes translate at inihde. That is a Khuzdul word, the dwarfish language created by J.R.R. Tolkien, and means, return to me in English. That stone is also made of a particular material called Labradorite, named after Labrador in Canada, where it was discovered. The stone is familiar among the Inuit people, and is called the frozen fire of the Aurora Borealis. They consider it to be magical, which is probably the reasoning behind Kili joking about what might happen where anyone but he to touch it.
