Tag: balin

Is messy hair a Durin thing? Like the nose and the angst?

LOL, the hereditary Durin angst! very accurate!

I don’t actually think so – Before death, Thorin’s hair was remarkably photogenic well-behaved. It’s only since his death that he’s been struggling with it!

Fili’s hair is lovely, as we all know. Thrain’s is enviable. Like, hellooooo sir. 

And Thror’s should be enshrined as hair-and-beard perfection, tbh. 

(I bet that this is all Hrera’s painstaking work, though…)

Even the extended Durin line we see in the films has hella hair. I mean, Balin’s is plain as plain – but pure white and absolutely lovely. Dwalin might be bald, but it is long at the back – also beard respect. Oin’s hair is FABTACULAR, curly braids ftw!! And Gloin’s – welp. Nuff said. My fave hot dad also has my fave hair and beard. And both are A GLORIOUS ABUNDANCE. 

And then, ofc, there is the fiery magnificence that is Dain. 

The only dwarf of the Durin line we see with fairly scruffy hair is Kili, I suppose. And even then it’s not scruffy-scruffy, more “movies-scruffy” (it appears that Dwarves do not frizz even in wet weather. Bastards). 

hey Dets, how do balin and bilbo think of each other/ feel about the other person since erebor or at the time of the dead dwarf peanut gallery? since sansukh is crammed with a ton of balin’s much noisier and flashier kith and kin and balin is more often than not the voice of reason, he seems to be the more quiet and analytical counterbalance to the spectatorship of the ring quest but how does balin really *feel* about it all (moria apart), particularly as bilbo, dwalin, frodo etc?

Heya Nonnie!

Balin and Bilbo are hugely fond of each other. HUGELY fond. (I loved Book!Balin, the lookout-man, when I was a littley!) 

Balin is very sad that Bilbo is suffering memory problems and becoming so frail due to his age. That’s hard to watch – particularly as the last time Balin would have seen Bilbo in life would have been his visit to the Shire with Gandalf (from the books). Bilbo was vital and merry and hale – in fact, he had barely seemed to age at all. And so to see Bilbo’s clever mind slipping and his body slowly crumbling is very difficult for Balin.

He’s rather fond, in a distant sort of way, of Frodo. He doesn’t have the sort of connection or emotional attachment that Thorin has to Frodo, but he’s very proud of the job Bilbo did with the lad nevertheless, and reveres him as the Ringbearer.

He misses Dwalin like he misses life. His taciturn, grim-faced, looming younger brother. It feels wrong to smile at someone else, negotiating this or that, without his scowling bulk a silent presence behind him. 

He’s tremendously proud of what Dwalin has achieved though. He can’t believe how high Dwalin has climbed. General in chief of all Erebor’s armies! The great War-Hammer of the Dwarves! His little brother! 

Balin approved heartily of Orla – and he is so proud of his namesake he might explode. 

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

Mr Headbutt probably goes on so many wacky adventures. Dwalin totally nicked him from his pride-of-place spot on the mantel in Balin’s room in their apartments and just shoved him /all over/.

I am now imagining Mr Headbutt as like, a war-ram toy equivalent of the Garden Gnome Road Trip. They just keep finding him in unexpected places. 

Inside the empty soup pot in Barur’s kitchen? Check.

On top of the throne? Check.

In Dis’ wardrobe? Check. 

One never knows when beady button eyes may just suddenly and startlingly appear 🙂