Tag: balinith

All the Durin kids getting together and practicing their glowers. Wee Thorin usually wins. Frerinith is usually too giggly.

Wee Thorin would DEFINITELY win. His scowl is a thing of epic grandeur. Grown Dwarves have been known to take a step back from it.

Balinith is an expert at the flat, level, unimpressed, ‘I am going to ignore the drivel pouring from your mouth’ stare.

Frerinith would certainly try, but would absolutely end up giggling. When Frerinith gets mad he gets all pouty and red-faced and crumply. He is a master of the “massive-indrawn-breath… HOLLER WITH INDIGNATION” art-form.

Gimizh can scowl. It’s not bad. But it’s nowhere near on the level of his friend. The thing to watch out for with Gimizh is sad puppy eyes. They are devastating (and he knows it, the lil shit 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. 

Balinith had a frog phase in his teens. Learned everything he could about them. Had a frog-patterned hat (green, stick-on eyes, stick-out red tongue), mittens (green, “pads” on fingers), and scarf (green, frog pattern) from Dori. Fell asleep muttering about frog facts. Still has a little book of frog drawings that he made during this period.

I don’t blame him: frogs are awesome. So many kinds! Poisonous ones, tree-dwelling ones, teeny tiny ones, colourful ones! So much to learn about, what an awesome special interest to have 🙂

(i bet Orla drew the line at frogspawn in the bath, though)

Dwalin’s kids seem to be appropriately named, even if they were named in honor of his friends and family. Wee Thorin and his Thorin II worthy scowls, Frerinith is cheerful like Frerin himself is, and Balinith has Balin’s focus on a project, admittedly amplified. I’m not saying that they’re carbon copies, but it’s kind of neat that they each have traits similar to their namesake.

They do! I love that you like that about them! Yes, I deliberately injected a couple of similarities. 😉

Though Wee Thorin is the exasperated, put-upon, voice-of-reason friend (I think if he were on tumblr his most-used tag would be ‘GIMIZH NO’ – and Gimizh would answer gleefully ‘GIMIZH YES’), he does have a very mighty scowl!

Balinith is nowhere near as silver-tongued or diplomatic or even as gregarious as his namesake…. but he is very very good at getting to the bottom of things. 

And Frerinith is a bubbly, sunny little fellow, yes – but he is also a bossy little boots and very imperious. He loves to get his own way!

Happy headcanon: Dwalin totally writes back and forth with Bilbo, has done so for years. He lets his kids put in a bit of stuff as well. Frerin scribbles, maybe puts an “F,” Balinith goes on about his newest project (currently growing beans), and Wee Thorin talked about his pie heist for half a page.

I like to think that Dori, Dwalin, Gloin and Bofur & Bombur write to Bilbo on the regular 🙂

(Bombur and Bofur write theirs together!)

Bilbo would giggle at Dwalin’s letters, particularly at Wee Thorin’s descriptions. He knows a young Took who would get on with this Gimizh like a house on fire. Screaming, smoke, people running away – that sort of thing. 

(He’d absolutely write back with a few pointers for Balinith, possibly after a little chat with Hamfast.)