Dori probably has so many now-grown dwarves that he’s helped who still look up to him. They know he doesn’t have any living family. They’ll run errands for him, and help around the house, and help him cook things, and visit him with their kids and let him play with them. Dori’s house is probably full of gifts and knick-knacks from his “little ones,” as he calls them. He knits them socks and grumbles at them to eat better.

SOLD *bangs gavel* YES.

Nori and Ori are going to be in for the mother henning the likes of which they have never known before when Dori gets to the Halls. Though I kind of want someone to look after him too, though I’m not sure whether he’d allow it ^^

Oh, Dori does let people care for him, if in a very removed and polite way. He can’t allow people to become as close as his brothers were – it hurts too much, really. But he’s not totally alone. Gloin is still his friend, as is Bofur. He’s rather fond of Mizim (two classic Dwarven beauties with absolutely NO interest in capitalising upon their looks? Imagine the understanding sighs and commiseration!), and tuts over her children on occasion (just to keep in practice).

Sansukh’s Dori has basically adopted the whole Mountain, really. Clever old Dain saw this, and by making Dori the Quartermaster for the war-effort he put Dori in the perfect position to care and fuss for everybody in the most hands-on way possible, with the appropriate authority to back it up.

It doesn’t hurt that Dori has worked his way up to the most prominent Guild position through his own efforts either – he has been High Guildmaster for nearly thirty years now, and every Guild has had to clean up its act and shape up under his expert scrutiny.

(if he pays particular attention to the Scribes’ Guild, their poor apprentices and to their orphan school, well, he doesn’t think anyone would really be surprised.)

Dori does miss having people who are only his, though.

Dori totally grandparents/great-uncles all the kids he can get his hands on. A great many of the kids don’t have many or any living older relatives, and Dori loves kids. Nori thinks that his brother is hoarding small children.

Dori would fund schools and homes and apprenticeships like WHOA. He would also probably fuss over every single one.

(Nori knows why. And it makes him sad, though he’ll never say it aloud.)

Did Dori ever create a new fashion trend with Hobbit-style embroidery patterns? :)

I like to think that he did! A wave of Hobbit-inspired and patterned clothing, but with Dwarven angles and cuts. 😀

(calf-length trousers and suspenders/braces were not quite a success.)

Dis and Dori should have a heart to heart over being the last one of their family left. They’re both alone and it hurts :( (I shouldn’t be looking forward to characters dying, dammit!)

I KNOOOOW. God, I am so meeean.

Cute headcanon for if Dori makes it past the war of the ring: his parental instincts go into overdrive upon news of royal baby. Thorin and Bomfris get enough (beautiful) knitted baby things for three babies. Dori also babysits baby Durin on occasion when her parents are busy.

awwwwwwww!!!

(and if he sings old songs he never thought he’d sing again, and thinks of another baby when he holds the little one, well. That’s hardly surprising.)

So we saw the sweet tooth question, but now we need to ask the real questions; what about /sour/ candy, dear Dets? Or sour/tart foods, in general? I’m a fan of granny smith apples, the green ones? And sour dusted candies!

OOOOOOOH *thinks*

I think that Dori might have had a certain partiality towards sour/sweet tastes. Lemony cheesecakes, curd tarts, sour apple lollies, that sort of thing. MMMM.

~~I bet Ori hated them when he was little, hahaha. Where are the chips?~~

Granny Smiths are in season here rn! OM NOM NOM.

but what would dwarves think of CEREAL

I expect that is a matter for individual Dwarves!

I can imagine Dori eating it very pointedly in Ori’s direction. ”See? It’s good!” Ori, naturally, would have chips 😉

A meeting of Dori and Molly Weasley would be amazing and terrifying. (I bet Nori and Ori get handknitted jumpers every. Single. Year. And they wear them, because Tradition.)

They would be SO TERRIFYING, oh my GOD.

*trembles at the idea*

(the Weasley kids get dwarf-chainmail. Charlie is thrilled.)

I love how you cast the dwarves for the HP houses. I think Dori could be a Hufflepuff too, though. The most important thing to him is his brothers, after all. Still, I think you nailed them all!

Yeah, Dori is another one that could be either house, to my mind! I actually wavered over him for a while: Badger or Lion, Badger or Lion… But then I thought, well, Molly Weasley was a Gryffindor… so! But as I said, I was only blabbing my own ideas, they’re ABSOLUTELY not law or anything 🙂

Glad you enjoyed them, Nonnie ❤