Dwarves don't have patronymic surnames in the books, or the game for that matter.
True, but Dwarves are always introducing themselves as X, sone of Y, son of Z. This way I've saved time.
Originally Posted by Radhruin_EU
Individual runes are just letters, and hence not magical. She'd have needed to have read the whole thing out, and intoned it just right, and so on, and that assumes the inscription was magical in the first place. (That's how runes were believed to work).
Also true, however the item in question was a Runekeeper's runestone, which is designed to channel inner energies into overt castings, I thought I'd described it well enough, apparently not.
Originally Posted by Radhruin_EU
If she didn't need to leave, then she wouldn't have done. Female Dwarves didn't wander off unless they absolutely had to.
Different people react to situations in different ways. I'm sure it would have been easy to find other lodings in Thorin's Hall but why continue to stay there, seeing your family every so often and being reminded of the whole situation? There are other Dwarf settlements in Ered Luin, which is why she travelled out into the Vale initially,