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(suicide tw!) I was wondering about Sansukh- I just saw that “Sansukh: where you can’t wait for your favorite characters to die” post and was wondering what might happen to those dwarfs that agree with that and perhaps speed up the date of their death? Is their purpose still unfinished and they get reborn the way you said young dwarfs are? Or do they get reborn automatically? Or is it just a completely foreign notion to their species, because they’ll see everyone again anyway so why rush?

I think Mahal would judge that on a case-by-case basis. The slow, cool healing of the Halls might be just what these Dwarves need…

And I don’t really want to pursue that line any further, sorry.

Omg but like. When Laerophen finally has to go home, he’s just gonna be SWARMED by kids hugging his legs and crying into his hair and messy baby kisses and omg. Omg I need a moment.

I like it Nonnie! But… Well, that’s more his life in Erebor, tbh – Laerophen is very solitary when he’s at home. He sticks to his library, and doesn’t really mingle much. Not because he’s unfriendly, mostly because he’s not naturally social. 

Also, he mentions that the last child born in the Greenwood was 100 years ago… he’s not all that experienced with kids! He was a grown adult when Legolas was born, and wasn’t terribly involved with his upbringing. There’s a gulf there (as those of us with big age differences between sibs know). It’s not that he doesn’t love Legolas – just that they didn’t share many common experiences. He looks at his little brother like a mix between a miracle and a ticking bomb. 

It’s one of the reasons why Gimizh is SUCH an astonishment to him. 

So a bit of a weird question, the easterlings are sometimes called the Haradrim but Harad is to the south and I can’t figure out if the Orocarni are in the south or the east and the cross between tolkien-inconsistency and fandom-inconsistency in relation to geography is hurting my brain a bit. What’s up with that?

Okay, this is just my understanding of the term, but ‘Easterling’ doesn’t actually mean the Haradrim, who are, as you have pointed out, from south of Gondor. It more accurately describes the people of Khand and Rhun, rather than of Harad (the Haradrim are, in fact, called ‘Southrons’ in the books).

It’s fairly common not to make the distinction though, and to call both the people of Harad and the people of Khand and Rhun ‘Easterlings’ as an umbrella term… probably to delineate those nations that sided together against the West.

And there we have another ‘direction’ grouping – Arnor is North-west, and Erebor is p much directly north (the Iron Hills are more or less in Rhun!), but they are generally lumped in with ‘the West’. The central point of the compass appears to be Gondor, mostly. IDK, it’s probably got something to do with the Numenoreans, It usually does.

Check askmiddlearth​‘s post on Rhun and Easterlings here. It includes a map that shows the Orocarni Mountains – which are indeed, to the east. There are some other good maps that show the lie of the continent as well. Here’s some of them:

Haradrim – Southrons, south of Gondor & Mordor

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The Variags of Khand – South-East of Mordor

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Rhun – Easterlings, east of Rhovanion (incl. Orocarni)

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The maps are reproduced from the Appendices of LOTR and from excerpts from Karen Wynn Fonstad’s Atlas of Middle Earth.

I was wondering if Thorin would ever consider dreadlocks to keep his sheepdog/bedhead/ridiculous hair under control more permanently…or would that be unthinkable for a dwarf? Probably. But he would look SO HOT. ;)

I think that dreadlocks are a cultural aspect for Blacklock and Stiffbeard Dwarves, myself. I don’t think they would be used by Dwarves of the West. There are all sorts of cultural implications there. 

(Balinith, in my mind, has dreads tho. His mother helps him with them, and he is very proud of them. He likes the tactile sensation of them in his hands.)