Tag: dori

All of the Dwalinuls take a bit after Dori? Wee Thorin is all sharp objects and knitting. Balinith is all For Science! And nice clothes and tea. Frerinith is fussy and also tea.

YES THEY DO, ALL OF THEM – thank you so much, I am so HAPPY you noticed, Nonnie! I have given all of the kids some of Dori’s influence, because I think he would have been very close to them all. Most trusted babysitter, honorary uncle, etc. So they’ve all got some characteristics and traits that stem from that proximity… all except Gimizh. 

Wee Thorin is protective LIKE WHOA. Also knitting. And sighing.

Balinith is orderly, tidy and also SCIENCE, but he’s got a streak of sarcasm in him a mile wide. Sly insults ftw. 

And tiny Frerinith is A FUSSY CUTIE PIE BOSSY-BOOTS 😀

(Alas, Gimizh has a hefty dose of Nori as well as Bofur, Gimris and Gimli in his character… which is probably makes Dori both sad and fond simultaneously.)

When I wrote that line about ‘Dori mothers the whole mountain in the absence of his brothers’, I totally, TOTALLY meant it with bells on and a cherry on top… also hello once more, my love of extreme character detail, there you are again

Frerinith is really into tea parties. He has tea parties at daycare and tea parties at home. His family members have tea parties all the time – picture Dwalin shoved into a tiny toddler chair with Frerinith, Wee Thorin, and Mumblebee the Bumblebee as table companions, drinking imaginary tea out of the lovely child-sized (and -proof) tea set Dori gave Frerinith for his birthday. (Dain has totally done a few, and loves it). Thorin is laughing his head off.

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Dwalin would be the best at a child’s tea party, though. He would. He’d be determinedly solemnly committed to the whole thing, drinking the tea and clinking the cups and everything.

(he gets the faint feeling that someone is laughing at him – but damn it, his little pebble wants him to take the “cake and bishcits!” and how can anyone say no to that little face???)

Gimizh has such a hero-worship for Nori that Dori ends up giving him A piece from Nori’s collection of little boxes. (Nori loves little boxes, especially with valuable shiny things inside) Gimizh treasures it, and keeps tiny treasures in it. Balinith also has one of Ori’s ink pots, a nice little purple glass one.

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meanwhile, Dori is simultaneously proud that his brothers are not forgotten – far from it! – and wistful. Because Nori would have been a terrible influence on Gimizh, but my word, they both would have loved it. And Balinith and Ori would have been happily lost for DAYS in the library together. 

It’s the Return of the Bride of the Monster of the Night of the HEADCANONPALOOZA!

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10

(this is what happens when I am too busy to get to tumblr for a few days, whoops – sorry sorry anons!!!)

BOFUR WOULD HAVE THE BEST GRANDUNCLE JOKES. 

*battle flashbacks at the mention of Frozen* oh god, babysitting scars, I bear them… 

Balinith toddling over to the shelf and declaring “BU!’ and choosing one and bringing it back to his parent to read it to him, until there is a pile fifteen books high beside Dwalin or Orla… aaand probably chucking a wobbly when it’s bedtime, because ‘NO NO NO MORE BU!’ 

(this is actually what the Dwarfling is doing RIGHT NOW. Her favourite is ‘Where is the Green Sheep’ by Mem Fox!!)

And hells YES – Gloin would be full of AMAZING advice (mostly the kind that sounds complicated, but in essence always boils down to ‘teach ‘em to be good Dwarves, and then trust ‘em to be good Dwarves’.)