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Mr Headbutt once spent most of a year travelling to various people’s underwear drawers. Dain laughed and laughed. Dori was generally annoyed. Bombur laughed and carried around the doll on his staff for a week. Jeri smiled, then organized a sneak mission to set the toy in his moms’ drawers.

(pssst – please remember that Jeri is nonbinary and uses they/them/theirs pronouns! 😀 )

pffffthahahahahaha, The Adventures of Mr Headbutt, knicker-drawer spelunker. is this the Dwarven equivalent to Paddington Bear or Peter Rabbit, is what I’m thinking now hahaha

Does Dwalin still have the conkers Bilbo gave him all the way back in chapter 5? Does he still use them? I’m imagining him playing conkers with all the kids and grandkids of the Company (plus Dis and Dain and family). There are shenanigans.

Awww, Nonnie, what a lovely image!

He does still have them! Unlike a traditional game (in which the horse-chestnuts get cracked) the special Dwarven set that Bilbo gave him were coated in resin and cut into two halves, each fitting together snugly so that it would fall open if struck  – but not shatter. Rather like the join around Russian Nesting Dolls.

They are also painted in the colours of the Company’s hoods, btw 😉

Balinith is a bit of a demon at conkers. He squints at them until he has decided which way he will throw, and click! His chosen target is lying in its two neat halves. He always wins. Dwalin is very proud. Gimizh is very annoyed. 

Frerinith is also a demon – but mostly that’s because he’s not so much invested in playing the game as he is in chucking the chestnuts at his brothers. He’s definitely smack-bang in the ‘THROWING IS NOT NICE, FRERIN!’ stage of his life. 

So what if the orcs we see as being leaders were actually high elves/elves that were old or especially wise, and were taken by Morgoth or Sauron for this purpose? I mean, there are many elves that are presumed dead, or with all the battles could have been spirited away. (pointedly doesn’t look at Maglor here)

LOTS of elves, yeah! Tolkien does mention specifically in the Silm that Melkor nicked the Elves who ran away when

Oromë invited everybody to the party in Valinor. So, they would have been of the Avari mostly, I guess. 

There’s a hint in Morgoth’s Ring (THOME) that some leaders amongst the Orcs were in fact Maiar who had chosen Orc-form rather than Man-shape like Gandalf and his pals. The Great Goblin is suggested to be one of these (!!). 

But there’s nothing to suggest that Elves of other clans/families might not have been stolen later on, too! idk, I really have no idea on this particular issue. I was just trying to answer the question as best I could 🙂

(the idea of an Orc whose eyes glitter with a strange light sometimes, whose fingers ache for harp-strings instead of the hilt of his wicked sword, who is ever-driven by a terrible unending compulsion – as though words spoken long ago are whipping at his heels –  is a very very heartbreaking one, Nonnie. Ouch.)