Tag: dis

I loved your answer to that other nonnie, I’d read the heck out of a story like that. Although they might have still gone through Moria if Dis got outvoted (Gimli wanted to see his family/friends and Frodo is the one who makes the final decision) but regardless it’s awesome! Also, I get to finally make lembas bread on Monday, so I’m really excited. I want to try to make your Broadbeam stew, but most of my family wouldn’t try it because it’s new.

Hmmm, true true, they may yet have gone anyway. Dis would have HATED it. Y’know, even beyond its current state and beyond the death of Balin’s colony. It would have been even MORE horrendous.

OH WOW – that’s amazing! Let me know how lembas bread making goes!! I haven’t tried it myself, I am so curious!

(aksgf;askdfhas dangit I STILL HAVEN’T MADE THAT FAB RECIPE – and it’s the middle of summer here, WAY too hot for a hearty dumpling soup! I will have to make it in winter, gotta write a note in my diary to remind myself! Ahhh, I hope you get a chance as well, Nonnie!

For anyone interested in those recipes, they’re at the Writings page on my blog, or you can have a look here:

Broadbeam Dumpling Soup – by whiteteawithhoney

(possible alternatives/ingredient replacements for Broadbeam Dumpling Soup – by kailthia)

Broadbeam Dumpling Soup (Bilbo’s version) – by morvidra)

I have two questions, sorry in advance! The picture on ff for Sansukh, is it supposed to mean something? And (this one isn’t about Sansukh, sorry!) what do you think would have happened if Dis had been part of the Fellowship of the Ring? I mean, she had to stay home while three people she loved marched off only a few decades and it ended in their deaths. What if she accompanied Gimli and Gloin to Rivendell and decided to be part of the Fellowship?

Hi Nonnie, thank you for dropping by! 🙂

Uh, not sure what is meant by ‘ff’ – if you mean FFN, there’s no picture on FFN specifically for Sansukh… just my old author pic (which was the delightful and delicious Eddie Izzard himself, wearing a tiara).

Oh god, hello wonderful story idea. Wow.

Well, for a start, I suspect that she and Boromir would have INSTANTLY understood each other. Also, that people would have TALKED about the Ring’s effect upon them. Y’know, instead of trying to hide it, and so struggle in isolation… and eventually succumb.

I also think that Legolas would have been even more discombobulated. Considering. I mean, one Dwarf is bad enough, the son of one he imprisoned… but hey, let’s throw in the sole surviving member of that branch of the family.

Gimli would have been less alone. He’s the only Dwarf we get to know in any depth in the whole of LOTR, after all.

I actually HUGELY doubt they would have gone through Moria. She LIVED through that bloodbath – she saw fully one half of her people die before that gate. It cost her her King and grandfather, and her brother, and many of her cousins. If I were Dis, I wouldn’t want to see a pebble of that place.

This means that the Balrog lives. This also means that Gandalf is not reborn as Gandalf the White… which means that Saruman keeps his rank as the head and most powerful of the Istari… nnngh, possibly. Possibly… there’s an argument to be made there, but let’s leave that for now.

No Lothlorien. No light of Galadriel. No three hairs. No friendship between Gimli and Legolas.

Perhaps they go via the Gap of Rohan after all, Dis supporting her friend Boromir’s suggestion. He is encouraged to speak about his fears and the increasing pull of the Ring upon his thoughts. So by the time they enter the lands of the horse-lords, he is very aware of his danger and is ready to go back home in order to keep the Quest safe and secret.

Merry and Pippin do not get captured by Orcs. Gimli said he would go to Mordor with them, and so the four Hobbits and Gimli, traipse off towards the Black Gate. “Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens” etc.

But entering Rohan would bring new problems – Saruman, and the Wild Men, and Grima, and the enchantment of Theoden.

But Theodred is still alive. If they pass through Rohan and Gandalf overthrows Saruman’s hold on Theoden’s mind earlier, then his son still lives. Dis, Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas and Gandalf are the new Five Hunters, but what they hunt is not Hobbits captured by Orcs. I can see Dis encouraging the Rohirrim to throw off Grima’s twisted policies and the sly sweet subtleties of Saruman before his stranglehold upon their kingdom becomes complete: his bid for power would be aborted before it could even begin…

Damn, this answer got long, and there’s even more I could go on with, but I am sure this is enough to be going on with for now (before I wrITE ANOTHER 400K MONSTERFIC)

What an amazing question, Nonnie!!!

I was re-reading Yours, Faithfully (again, for the umpteenth time, it is so good, you deserve all the kudos for it) and. Well. Gloin gleefully and mockingly throwing a “funeral” for Dwalin’s hair once he has finally gone bald. Balin gives a speech. Would almost be moving, if Gloin and Dis could stop snickering so loudly throughout the entire thing. Dwalin threatens to kill them all afterwards, until they get him drunk on Hobbit ale.

lkjfh;ashdfgaljshdfgsjhasldkfjhasldhfa oh god, THANK you. I am sorta proud of that work, actually, it’s in my top 3 favourites of everything I’ve ever written. *wibbles* so happy that you like it and that you find it worth re-reading!

AHHHHH A FUNERAL FOR DWALIN’S HAIR BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh, poor Dwalin. And there’s Thorin and Gloin and Oin, looking like overgrown yaks, all laughing at him. I’d be drinking too, Dwalin! 

Speaking of “in case I die when you’re too young” letters, imagine who else has written these letters, as well as general “in case I die untimely” letters. Dis and Thorin both have stashes for Fili and Kili. Vili was skeptical, but Dis managed to get him to dictate one or two. Gloin did a pile before the quest for Erebor. All the letters before the war of the ring – Dwalin especially, having lost both his parents young.

lksdgfa;sdhsjaljgsalgfakjsh

(the ones from Thorin and Dis for the lads, though… Dis would find them after, and know that they were never meant for her. She would keep Vili’s as well, stained and rumpled from so many years of being crushed in the bottom of one of Fili’s drawers. She would have so many of these letters, all addressed to someone else.

Nobody would have expected her to outlive her children, after all.)

I actually already have Gimli writing a pile of these in Sansukh – he hands them to Gloin when they say farewell at Rivendell. One for Dis, one for the King, one for Gimris and Bofur, one for Gimizh. And one for his parents, of course. 

Gloin and Dwalin definitely would have written lots of just-in-case letters because of losing their parents at Azanulbizar… in fact, I believe Gloin would probably have written a novel (he’s a very organised Dwarf, is Gloin). Dwalin’s would be softer, though… and full of all the things he doesn’t say aloud.