Tag: dance

d’you think Thorin is a good dancer? I mean as a prince he might’ve been taught a bit before the dragon but I’d imagine he might not really dance much in the years afterwards. I kinda bet Frerin would like dancing, or at least the quick and cheerful hobbit kind of dancing (I kinda imagine him just having the time of his life with it and it makes my heart ache a bit)

OKAY so I have ideas about Dwarven dancing!

I think Dwarves would make dancing into a virtuoso display of incredible endurance, strength, showmanship and control. I don’t think Dwarven dancing is staid or courtly at all. 

I think Thorin would have been very very good at the slow, controlled type of dance, full of dragging kicks and slow stamping  – the ones that need thigh muscles of freakin granite. I think he would have made a point of competition with Dwalin to last longer than him (and the loser has to buy the drinks). 

I think Gloin would have been the best at the spinning dances. Firebeards do spinning REALLY well – bc axe-dancing! (reminder that in Sansukh Haban, Gloin and Oin’s mum, is a famous axe-dancer)

I think Frerin would have been gifted at the fast dances. Light and fast and speedy with lots of stamping and fast footwork, hells to the yeah! (Fili would also have been good at these, imo).

I would like to imagine that the Iron Hills specialise in spectacular jumps 🙂

DANCING. 

I’ve answered a similar thing before – but bc I LOVE these and they need to be seen by everyone who loves Dwarves, check out these Ukrainian dances. They are similar to how I envision Dwarven dancing. 

Seeeeeriously. Check these out (start the first one at about 2:00 mins in):

DEM THIGHS.

DEM BUNS.