first off, sansukh is amazing, of course. i could give so much praise for everything you’ve done with it, with dwarves, with dwarf culture, etc. BUT that would take all day and i’ve got a question to get to (sorry. i still love it <3 but sorry) so i seem to have developed a bit of an infatuation with dori recently. you've often got little, i guess you could call them side-pairings, those little asides with romances mentioned but not integral to the story. anything planned for dori?

First – thank you, I’m so happy you’re enjoying the fic and all the worldbuilding and culture stuff! It’s a lot of work, but I do love it, and it’s just so lovely to hear that.

Ah, I’m really really sorry to disappoint you, Nonnie, but it’s mentioned a few times in the fic that my version of Dori is aro-ace. He’s an important Dwarf, Guildmaster and Quartemaster of Erebor, and he mothers half the mountain – and terrifies the rest, because he’s still one of the strongest Dwarves. He’s not interested in the slightest in romance.

(to the eternal disappointment of most of Erebor, because Dori is also Mr Hottie TA 3019.)

I know we haven’t seen much of him lately, but the number one reunion in the Halls that I am literally not gonna be able to handle when it happens is Dori. His brothers have been gone for so long and he’s been alone and basically no matter how you do it I am going to be destroyed.

Dori runs out of tea during the siege of Erebor, and immediately becomes 150% more vicious towards all enemies.

I subscribe to this headcanon.

I suddenly found myself wondering how exactly Dori will react when he gets to the Halls and his baby brother is in a relationship. Since he’s kind of a mother hen, actually, he /is/ a mother hen but I don’t have a clear image of exactly how he will react? (Also I can’t believe I didn’t realize you were the one who wrote From One Age to Another, which is the fic that got me shipping Gimli and Legolas in the first place, sooner)

Awwwww, thank you so much! I am still superly duperly fond of my first Gigolas one-shot, I am very happy you enjoyed it! FUCK YEAH GIGOLAS.

Weeeelll, yep, Dori is totally a mother-hen. I don’t like portraying him as controlling or dictatorial, though. So: expect fussing, but not threatening behaviour or forbidding Ori to see Bifur, or any of that sort of thing. 🙂

Speaking of Hrera, you know who I am excited for her to meet? DORI. The combined power of their fussing will be incredible. And his hair and beard ‘dos surely meet her exacting standards.

YESSSSSSS

TREMBLE BEFORE THEM (AND THEIR STYLING PRODUCTS)

What if Nori had to fake his death for some reason or another and everyone else is fooled except for Dori, which is why Dori never really stopped believing that all the misplaced items were Nori’s fault.

THAT’s more like it 🙂

Sad thought of the day: For years after Nori died, Dori would absentmindedly cuss him out whenever a small item went missing around his house or workshop, and then wilt a little inside when he realized that Nori couldn’t have taken it to make Dori mad.

NONNIE HAVE I DONE SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU MAD

WHY DO YOU HURT ME THIS WAY

do you happen to know the origin of the trope where the ‘Ri family is a bunch of solid gold hotties? it’s one of my favorites, and you’re one of the only tolkien fandom blogs I follow! just wondering if you knew(/if you like it too!)?

I sure do!

I have NO idea where that trope came from, but I like it a lot. My particular headcanon is that of the three brothers, Dori is in fact the blinding beauty.

(it might have arisen from the fact that Dori’s build, facial features and costume are the most stereotypically ‘fantasy Dwarvish’, possibly)

Is dori with anyone? there are so many in sansukh sometimes i forget.

Dori is aro-ace. 🙂