Dori has his brothers’ stuff as well. Ori’s things are laid out in the house he shared with Dori, and Dori will occasionally sniffle to see his baby brother’s quills and knitwear and favorite war hammer. He’s found some of Nori’s things, but not all, because Nori hides stuff. Dori found a cache of Nori’s that had a lot of tea and nice weaving things that was obviously to give to Dori.

it stiiiinnnnngssssss make it stooop

Maybe Dori made waistcoats a bit of a Thing for dwarves? I mean, they love their layers. And it gets to show of pretty fabrics and embroidery. Or maybe I just want to picture some of my favorite Sansukh dwarves in waistcoats.

Thank you, Nonnie. I am now picturing Gimli and Legolas on holiday in the Shire. There are waistcoats and short trousers.

It is a very good image 🙂

How many times has Dori accidentally called one of the little kids Nori or Ori?

Every now and then when scolding Gimizh, halfway through he says, ‘Nor- uh, Gimizh.’

It always throws him off his stride.

Gimizh once made off with all of Dori’s tea strainers. In recompense for this, he had to help Dori at work for a few days, winding thread and wool.

HA, that’ll teach him! That’s exactly the sort of thing Gimizh would find tedious as all get-out.

Barur Approves 😉

I imagine Dori has made a few attempts to talk to Bofur and Gimris about Gimizh out of concern that he might go the, ah, “Nori route” in life. Just to try and save them some of his headaches later on.

idk, I don’t think Dori would be the sort of person to go and criticise another person’s parenting (I have a new appreciation for how insulting and judgemental people can be about the decisions we make for the good of our kids, lol). He’d more likely try to provide ~~the hellion~~ Gimizh with a good example, to my mind.

Besides, it might feel sort of… nostalgic? in a way? To be running after and grumbling about a red-haired menace with a nose for trickery. A little slice of a life long gone.

Gimizh once switched all of the tea in Dori’s apartment up so the labels didn’t match the contents. Balinith was appalled at the sheer anarchy. Dori was petrified.

Good god, he’s a menace, that’s APPALLING *protectively stands before her tea-cabinet* HE MUST BE STOPPED

Part of Gimizh’s sock mis-matching policy was replacing exactly four of Dori’s socks with other socks, so Dori ends up with eight mismatched socks, four of which aren’t his. It turns out that two of the foreign socks are Dain’s, one is Dwalin’s, and one is Gloin’s. Dori is in a tizzy.

i’m choking baaaaahahahahahahaha EXCELLENT

One of Gimizh’s best plots to date was sneaking into Dori’s rooms while he was in a meeting and mis-matching all his socks.

OH MY GOD THE FIEND..!!!

Dori and his brothers open up a clothes shop in your askbox. They reckon they could make a fortune there.

a postmodernist naked dwarf runs through your askbox. it’s a deconstruction of the dialectic narrative in erebor of privacy. as written by debord, “sexual identity is part of the futility of sexuality”, and nudity is something to be ended as a concept itself, as sexuality is in essence a dematerialist substance.

HEADCANON: DORI HATES WINDING THREAD OR WOOL UPON A SHUTTLE SO MUCH (EVEN USING A WHEEL, IT IS SO SO SOOOOO TEDIOUS) THAT HE EMPLOYS BOFUR TO MAKE SOMETHING MECHANICAL TO SPEED UP THE PROCESS

BOFUR COMES UP WITH THE BOBBIN AND THE BOAT-SHUTTLE

IT IS AN INSTANT HIT