Tag: dwarves

What are your headcanons about Dwarven dance forms? I always imagine a sort of loud, stompy belly dance, boots on and thundering against the dance floor, jewellery jingling, earthy and graceful and absolutely in love with gravity. Axe dancers with blades spinning (I imagine Gimli might be good at that), beards swishing over rippling bellies… but then, you might just as easily see ballroom dancing or polka. What do you picture?

Ohhh gosh, I have answered this before! Here it is, Nonnie!

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TL:DR – basically, I envision Western Dwarven dancing to be a show of control, strength, virtuosity and skill. And enthusiasm! Ukrainian, Polish and Moldovian dancing is as close as I think of for a real world equivalent. Check these out – particularly THIS (start at 2:00 in) and THIS ONE HERE omg it is totally Dwarves all over. My fave is the guy who does the whole thing with a pipe in his mouth, lol.

There would be different sorts of dances: slow controlled ones, with lots of high kicks and crouching. Fast ones with heaps of stamping and jumping and Dwarves throwing themselves and each other into the air! One-upmanship competitions for the most impressive move! Who can last the longest? Loser buys the beer!

I think Broadbeams would have perfected something very like Jewish Bottle Dancing 🙂

Firebeards are renowned for Axe-dancing, a very difficult spinning dance in which axes are thrown end-over-end and caught again in a display of staggering dexterity, timing and precision (and woe betide the Dwarf who misses, lol). Haban is an expert Axe-dancer: she can spin four blades at once! Gimli’s not too bad either – he’s up to three!!

For all of her dislike and animosity towards dwarves, does Yavanna try and comfort Mahal whenever something terrible (like Smaug, the Battle of Five Armies, the battles and siege during the War of the Ring, etc.) happens to them? She knows how much he loves them, and how he feels when they’re hurt, so would she try?

Well, she doesn’t HATE hate them. It’s more like how a gardener feels about greenfly or cabbage moths. You don’t HATE them for doing as their nature dictates – but holy heck you wish to FUCK they would stop. Lots of growling and grumbling. Little hairy pests. 

But Yavanna does love her husband, and what hurts him makes her sad for him. She will comfort and care for him, no matter what – and she will even find a seed of pity in her wild thorny heart for those little bearded infestations. They do suffer so.

Since we have no idea what Groin was doing during Azanulbizar, I posit that he was with the combat healers, as was Oin (if Dain and Dwalin and Gloin were there). It was one of Groin’s greatest regrets that he was on the opposite side of the field when his wife, brother and sister-in-law died, even though he knows he couldn’t have saved them. Groin then found himself with four dwarflings (his sons and nephews) to take care of by himself, while stopping his cousin Thrain from doing anything stupid

AUGH NO