(cradlesong anon) pt 2 im changing the lyrics a bit, so it’s for two treasures, and im gonna use your alto line but an octave or two down for thorin. bomfris’ line is gonna stay the same. im just feeling things about bomfris and thorin and little disith and durin and how loved they all are, idk. would that be ok, to change it like that?
(cradlesong anon) pt 3 i just decided that the tenor line that comes in around measure 32 is going to be bombur singing along from the halls of mahal, watching over his daughter and grandchildren. and now i made myself sad.
Hey Nonnie! Absolutely – go nuts, move it around as much as you like! It’s your thing now, this major version is your baby and you can play around with it in any old way: lyrics, tune, harmonies, anything. It’s all yours, with my enthusiastic encouragement and blanket permission for WHATEVER! I can’t wait to hear what you come up with.
And omg ajhsdglajhasgdfsah that headcanon hurts my heart. A lot. In a completely wonderful, perfectly perfect way. Bomfris and Thorin and their tiny little surprises and BOMBUR HOW DARE YOU augh
actually, now that I come to think of it… wow, that is EXTREMELY fitting for a Sansukh song, that lil
*hugs* Ahh, sorry Nonnie. That chapter has made people howl at me a lot!!
Oooh. I think that people will do tremendously brave and powerfully foolhardy things in order to protect those they love – even at the cost of their own life.
I think, given more time and deliberation (and less terrible circumstances), that they both would have elected to live. They didn’t go out there with death being the end-goal in mind. They went out to achieve other goals – Dain to open up a column to Dale and finally kill Dagalur, ending the blood-feud at last, and Bombur to save Bofur. Death was the unfortunate consequence.
No, I don’t think they chose suicide. I think that they’d have wanted to survive their encounters. I think they held onto a tiny hope that they would – Dain, most certainly, knows that it is near-certain, but he still hopes that he might make it.
Bombur isn’t thinking about his stupid leg at all, nor his children or wife or grandchildren – he is FURIOUS and ready to kill every Orc he can see, just to try and get to his brother. An angry Bombur is a very dangerous one!
but that’s totally perfect. TOTALLY perfect. Thrain would be the most understanding, gentle and yet matter-of-fact person to help them deal with the terrible conflicting tug of war between joy and sorrow.
I don’t think I’m emotionally ready for Dis’ death.
Scratch that, I know I’m not.
On one hand, I’ve been looking forward to it since the beginning of the story, and that only increased when it was revealed that Vili spent every day in the chamber watching her. Her family is mostly dead, she’ll be happier with them.
But then, I thought of it more deeply. Dis, old and sick and just so tired that nothing else seems to matter. Even Gloin’s star isn’t enough, and so she is slowly fading by inches until the day she just can’t get up anymore.
And then there will be the reunion in the Halls. She will see her sons, the mother she likely barely remembers, her grandfather and father and brothers. Her husband, killed far too soon. And there’ll be crying and reunions and maybe even a punch for Thorin and scoldings for her sons, and dear God I’m not emotionally ready for this.
@determamfidd how could you do this? I just got over Bombur’s death, not to mention Dain’s.
Aw Yiss 