“…and here’s Wee Thorin in the bath when he was only ten months old!”
“DAD – DAD NO.”
Tag: dwalin
Nori’s “Dori stashes” have all sorts of good things, like weaving and knitting supplies and tea. Also lots of Dori’s favorite types of booze. And Dori shares the hooch with Dwalin and Gloin, all three of them with long faces over their brothers,
Oh my god, you have unearthed a hitherto untapped source of NOPE
Balinith totally loves Balin’s overstuffed chair. He’s curl up in it with a (far to big) book from Balin’s collection or the library, some juice and some cookies and read. Dwalin is very proud and heartbroken.
*LIP WIBBLES*
Dwalin totally has all of his brother’s stuff that he left behind in his rooms, mostly untouched. Orla will occasionally find him in there, quietly sitting on Balin’s overstuffed chair, or cleaning his weapons that didn’t go to Moria.
oh my god, I didn’t know Satan was on tumblr
Sansukh dads doing paperwork with sleepy babies. I feel that Thror and Dwalin are especially bad for this.
AHHH YES.
I sort of think that the Stonehelm will continue in this vein, too!
Dwarven children totally love Dwalin. They just attach themselves to him and are all heart eyes. He’s a little gruff, but he does like kids. He usually keeps some sweets handy (hidden pockets anyone?). It always cracks Orla and Balin up to see Dwalin surrounded by kids. Also he gives A+ piggyback rides.
AWWWWW
Dwalin totally spends a lot of his money on helping set up affordable childcare in Erebor. Because he likes kids and kids adore him, he ended up spending a bit of time with kids in Ered Luin. And even with the extended family childcare model, sometimes a bit of external help is needed. This is especially so when so many families and livelihoods were decimated by Smaug and the resulting diaspora.
YES. ABSOLUTELY. THIS HAPPENED.
Is messy hair a Durin thing? Like the nose and the angst?
LOL, the hereditary Durin angst! very accurate!
I don’t actually think so – Before death, Thorin’s hair was remarkably photogenic well-behaved. It’s only since his death that he’s been struggling with it!
Fili’s hair is lovely, as we all know. Thrain’s is enviable. Like, hellooooo sir.
And Thror’s should be enshrined as hair-and-beard perfection, tbh.
(I bet that this is all Hrera’s painstaking work, though…)
Even the extended Durin line we see in the films has hella hair. I mean, Balin’s is plain as plain – but pure white and absolutely lovely. Dwalin might be bald, but it is long at the back – also beard respect. Oin’s hair is FABTACULAR, curly braids ftw!! And Gloin’s – welp. Nuff said. My fave hot dad also has my fave hair and beard. And both are A GLORIOUS ABUNDANCE.
And then, ofc, there is the fiery magnificence that is Dain.
The only dwarf of the Durin line we see with fairly scruffy hair is Kili, I suppose. And even then it’s not scruffy-scruffy, more “movies-scruffy” (it appears that Dwarves do not frizz even in wet weather. Bastards).
hey Dets, how do balin and bilbo think of each other/ feel about the other person since erebor or at the time of the dead dwarf peanut gallery? since sansukh is crammed with a ton of balin’s much noisier and flashier kith and kin and balin is more often than not the voice of reason, he seems to be the more quiet and analytical counterbalance to the spectatorship of the ring quest but how does balin really *feel* about it all (moria apart), particularly as bilbo, dwalin, frodo etc?
Heya Nonnie!
Balin and Bilbo are hugely fond of each other. HUGELY fond. (I loved Book!Balin, the lookout-man, when I was a littley!)
Balin is very sad that Bilbo is suffering memory problems and becoming so frail due to his age. That’s hard to watch – particularly as the last time Balin would have seen Bilbo in life would have been his visit to the Shire with Gandalf (from the books). Bilbo was vital and merry and hale – in fact, he had barely seemed to age at all. And so to see Bilbo’s clever mind slipping and his body slowly crumbling is very difficult for Balin.
He’s rather fond, in a distant sort of way, of Frodo. He doesn’t have the sort of connection or emotional attachment that Thorin has to Frodo, but he’s very proud of the job Bilbo did with the lad nevertheless, and reveres him as the Ringbearer.
He misses Dwalin like he misses life. His taciturn, grim-faced, looming younger brother. It feels wrong to smile at someone else, negotiating this or that, without his scowling bulk a silent presence behind him.
He’s tremendously proud of what Dwalin has achieved though. He can’t believe how high Dwalin has climbed. General in chief of all Erebor’s armies! The great War-Hammer of the Dwarves! His little brother!
Balin approved heartily of Orla – and he is so proud of his namesake he might explode.
It’s highly likely that this has already been asked, but since Jeri’s beard is green due the whole non-binary dwarves are allowed to be hella rad; how does totally canon BLUE bearded Dwalin… adefhsdgis sudfij???. Non-binary Dwalin is a thing right?!
Hey Nonnie – I’m not writing him as such, but that IS where the inspiration was ganked from! And why not – it’s perfectly possible that a blue-dyed beard signifies agender, and Dwalin goes by he/him/his because he likes ‘em.
Aw Yiss 