Tag: bombur

AARGH – these all turned up in the LAST DAY, and you know what that means? *puts detective hat on. dons monocle* I POSIT THAT @kailthia IS AT IT AGAIN, DISTRIBUTING CUTE HEADCANONS WITH RECKLESS ABANDON, EXHIBITING A TRULY OUTRAGEOUS GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS

so, this is now headcanonpalooza part 7! We all need some sweetness and shmoop to start our new year ❤

(Thank you, K! *snuggles*)

The first 6 installments are here:  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 (I thoroughly recommend reading through them, they never fail to bring a smile!)

bombur having so many kids rlly opens up the possibility of maybe hobbit ancestry somewhere i was just thinking abt how he and his wife could possibly have so many children then i remembered hobbits have 49875398 kids soooo

HOBBIT BOMBUR EXPLAINS SO MUCH THO. 

(Oh! You just reminded me, Nonnie – one of my favourite bits of canon is that Belladonna Took? Was the ninth of 12 children! Bilbo had a whole army of aunts and uncles. Bombur would have fitted in perfectly in the Shire 🙂

I suppose the chance of Gimizh ever becoming an older sibling are in the slim-to-none range? (You mentioned some slight medical issues re sibs early in the fic, but I’m not sure how long-lasting those were meant to be)

Gimris did not have an easy pregnancy or birth, poor girl. She probably isn’t sold on the idea of going through it again.

Also – I think most of Erebor might actually cry in terror if Bofur and Gimris announced they were having another one. 

But the reason behind Gimizh being an only child is a little more meta than that, too… I mean, the Dwarves ‘do not bear nor bring forth’ easily, etc etc. I had a bit of a think about this. They are a diminishing race, even at the time of LOTR. They are about to go through their last great period of glory post-Ring War, before they disappear during the Age of Men. So, with all that in mind, I think that very small families would have been the norm. Thorin’s own family, with three siblings born within 20 years, would have been considered quite large. Two children seems to be the most common, judging from the Company’s lineup!

Bombur? Is a complete ANOMALY 🙂