I was thinking about adding some tongue twisters in to my voice training routine, since they'll have different sets of sounds than what I normally use in conversation. Here's one for each day of the next week.
Monday
To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock,
In a pestilential prison, with a lifelong lock,
Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock,
From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block
Tuesday
Six sick hicks nick six slick bricks with picks and sticks
Wednesday
Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
Thursday
A blanched black bug bleeds black blood but what color blood does a bland blue bug bleed?
Friday
The great Greek grape growers grow great Greek grapes
Saturday
If you must cross a coarse cross cow across a crowded cow crossing, cross the cross coarse cow across the crowded cow crossing carefully
Sunday
Luke's duck likes lakes. Luke Luck licks lakes. Luke's duck licks lakes. Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes
If you want something normal sounding to say instead, try the Harvard Sentences. Or read a book to someone!
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Everyone ships Thorin Oakenshield and Bilbo, but if you read the Hobbit, it's Balin and Bilbo who have the relationship. Balin is the one Bilbo surprises on lookout duty after he gets the ring. Balin is the only dwarf who comes into the tunnel in the lonely mountain with him when Bilbo sneaks in and meets Smaug.
I blame del Toro. He made Balin goofy-old instead of distinguished-old.
Definitely Thorin is meant to be the oldest, with Balin being a peer from the lonely mountain (so second oldest).
Balin also is the only dwarf to visit Bilbo in the shire after the events and even meets Frodo!
The mines of Moria is Frodo finding out his gay adoptive dad's boyfriend died tragically.
Thorin is older but he's not supposed to read as old the way Balin does. Tolkien's weird stuff with royalty, like Aragorn being older than Théoden.