Tag: dwalin

Mr Headbutt once spent most of a year travelling to various people’s underwear drawers. Dain laughed and laughed. Dori was generally annoyed. Bombur laughed and carried around the doll on his staff for a week. Jeri smiled, then organized a sneak mission to set the toy in his moms’ drawers.

(pssst – please remember that Jeri is nonbinary and uses they/them/theirs pronouns! 😀 )

pffffthahahahahaha, The Adventures of Mr Headbutt, knicker-drawer spelunker. is this the Dwarven equivalent to Paddington Bear or Peter Rabbit, is what I’m thinking now hahaha

Does Dwalin still have the conkers Bilbo gave him all the way back in chapter 5? Does he still use them? I’m imagining him playing conkers with all the kids and grandkids of the Company (plus Dis and Dain and family). There are shenanigans.

Awww, Nonnie, what a lovely image!

He does still have them! Unlike a traditional game (in which the horse-chestnuts get cracked) the special Dwarven set that Bilbo gave him were coated in resin and cut into two halves, each fitting together snugly so that it would fall open if struck  – but not shatter. Rather like the join around Russian Nesting Dolls.

They are also painted in the colours of the Company’s hoods, btw 😉

Balinith is a bit of a demon at conkers. He squints at them until he has decided which way he will throw, and click! His chosen target is lying in its two neat halves. He always wins. Dwalin is very proud. Gimizh is very annoyed. 

Frerinith is also a demon – but mostly that’s because he’s not so much invested in playing the game as he is in chucking the chestnuts at his brothers. He’s definitely smack-bang in the ‘THROWING IS NOT NICE, FRERIN!’ stage of his life. 

Mr Headbutt probably goes on so many wacky adventures. Dwalin totally nicked him from his pride-of-place spot on the mantel in Balin’s room in their apartments and just shoved him /all over/.

I am now imagining Mr Headbutt as like, a war-ram toy equivalent of the Garden Gnome Road Trip. They just keep finding him in unexpected places. 

Inside the empty soup pot in Barur’s kitchen? Check.

On top of the throne? Check.

In Dis’ wardrobe? Check. 

One never knows when beady button eyes may just suddenly and startlingly appear 🙂

OK, so if the Company are going through their family quarters are reclaimed, Balin and Dwalin go to their house and Dwalin finds an old baby toy – a little battle ram – that was obvi Balin’s. He shows it to Balin, who makes a grab for it. Balin ends up chasing Dwalin halfway through the Mountain, screeching at Dwalin to return “Mr Headbutt.” It’s hilarious. Smaller versions of Mr Headbutt end up in Bofur’s toy shop, and are a fan favorite, especially the ones with a Balin rider.

MR HEADBUTT

I LOVE IT

SO SO MUCH

AHHHHHHH

OK but Dwalin wasn’t born yet when Erebor fell in book-canon and Balin was 7. So they’re back and are going to their family’s apartments and Dwalin is slack-jawed when they go in and Balin is just crying, because Balin is going through all these really hazy baby-memories and Dwalin is seeing all it all for the first time. And Dwalin is all like “was this Amad’s?” and “wow, Adad had really bad taste in color schemes.” And Balin finds his favorite stuffed toy which hadn’t made it out with him.

(yeah, I know – I was thinking it would be even more bittersweet, because Dwalin would be discovering that his parents had a life – a nice life, even – before they became the grim, weary dwarves he remembers)

AUGH AUGH AUGH NONNIE D:

Sad headcanon: All the Sansukh Company members helped with the Erebor cleanup effort. The Durin ones (and Dain) had to go and clean out their family quarters. Especially painful for people who had lost family.

AUGH.

Okay, I am wibbly enough about Dwarves like Balin and Dwalin entering their family quarters… finding little remnants of their parents’ lives: a scrap of paper with Fundin’s writing on it, a broken comb, a childhood toy carefully stored, Dweris’ favourite dressing-gown, now more moth-holes than fabric…

but Dis. 

Dis. 

EXCUSE ME, GTG BAWL MY EYES OUT NOW.