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For determamfidd, because the discussion on her blog about Bifur and his parents gave me a lot of feelings. So here’s some Ur family art!

Kifur and Bomris, Bifur’s mum and dad in the early days of their relationship. Bomris is quiet and shy, but I don’t think she’d mind Kifur being all affectionate with her.

Bomris and dwarfling Bifur! Bifur loves his mum. I like to think that that patch of white hair (which is different to where he’s greying as an adult) is just something he has, hence Bomris’s nickname of “little magpie” (which is so cute omg).

jasgfljHSFDLjh CHESS!! SHe is perfect! He is perfect! SO MUCH PERFECT OH MY FREAKING GAWD

Her sweet little smile when Kifur kisses her kjsdflkhgf, and Bifur’s little FACE! *keels over* Yes, I love the idea that the white in his hair came early!! Little Magpie, AUGH

THANK YOU, THANK YOU SO SO MUCH! I adore it, and you!!

Nori and Ori are going to be in for the mother henning the likes of which they have never known before when Dori gets to the Halls. Though I kind of want someone to look after *him* too, though I’m not sure whether he’d allow it ^^

Oh, Dori does let people care for him, if in a very removed and polite way. He can’t allow people to become as close as his brothers were – it hurts too much, really. But he’s not totally alone. Gloin is still his friend, as is Bofur. He’s rather fond of Mizim (two classic Dwarven beauties with absolutely NO interest in capitalising upon their looks? Imagine the understanding sighs and commiseration!), and tuts over her children on occasion (just to keep in practice). 

Sansukh’s Dori has basically adopted the whole Mountain, really. Clever old Dain saw this, and by making Dori the Quartermaster for the war-effort he put Dori in the perfect position to care and fuss for everybody in the most hands-on way possible, with the appropriate authority to back it up.

It doesn’t hurt that Dori has worked his way up to the most prominent Guild position through his own efforts either – he has been High Guildmaster for nearly thirty years now, and every Guild has had to clean up its act and shape up under his expert scrutiny.

(if he pays particular attention to the Scribes’ Guild, their poor apprentices and to their orphan school, well, he doesn’t think anyone would really be surprised.) 

Dori does miss having people who are only his, though. 

Ohmygod, Balin the aggressively proud uncle with almost obscenely fat baby Wee Thorin. Balin would cart him around when it was his turn to babysit, and use him to distract people in meetings so he could get his way. The sound of cooing dwarves followed Balin and Wee Thorin everywhere – “look at that dapper old fellow with the adorable baby!” Balin smiles and Wee Thorin sticks his foot in his mouth determinedly.

OH NONNIE 

I love this. And I will carry it around in my head all day, bc it is adoooorable. ohgod yes baby gymnastics while you’re trying to carry them hahahaha

(and now I wish that Balin had had the chance to cart his own little namesake around with that fond pride.)

I just want to hug Bomris and Kifur they sound so lovely. And gosh, how heartbreaking it must have been for them to watch Bifur be so injured, and then to have it happen *again*. The Ur family man, they’ve been through so much :(

I KNOOOOOOW. 

It was horrible. Bomris wrung her hands and cried a lot. Kifur hovered anxiously, weeping into his beard. It was simply awful. 

(There was hope after he seemed to improve, following his second injury. But it slowly dwindled away.)

SO I JUST REALIZED what with all the talk about Bomris that we haven’t seen her interact with Ori! Quiet-poor-tired (but recovering in the Halls) Bomris, meeting her beloved Bifur’s sanmelek, and Ori having known a little of the kind of life she would have had and being naturally shy and stuff and I just think they’d be really good friends??!! And super adorable??!! I can’t stand this fic it’s too much, like a cinnamon roll, too perfect, too pure

*stands up suddenly*

YOU ARE SO RIGHT OMFG I MUST RECTIFY THAT.

(ahhh wow you are super super kind, thank you!!)

Bifur totally offered that sort of quiet to all of his niblings – when home got too noisy, Uncle Bifur could be counted on for a quiet talk and cuddle.

*clutches chest*

Ohhhh all Bombur’s kids though…

Unsociable little Bomfris, hiding in Bifur’s workroom, sulking. People are stupid. Ravens are much more sensible. At least they say exactly what they mean!

Barur escaping to Uncle Bifur’s place when the horde of people he has to feed every day only seems to get bigger, and the purse only seems to get lighter.

Baris singing quietly in her marvellous voice as Bifur gives her a bit of whittling or painting to do (because there’s just so much pressure, she never knew, never understood that there would be such pressure)

Bomfur sitting quietly, tinkering with a few of the toys absently, lost in thought. Then standing and announcing that he’s off to buy some green dye for his beard, and can Uncle Bifur please help him apply it? And Bifur patting his shoulder and nodding and smiling – and he’s the first one to call her Bomfa.

Alfur whining to Bifur as he moons hopelessly over Gimli from afar, his little crush in full-flight.

Alrur sitting for hours upon hours, just watching Bifur work. (Alrur runs as fast as he can one day, panting and stumbling and nearly glowing with happiness, to Uncle Bifur’s place. He has to tell him! He’s found his calling! He will be a toymaker too!)

I bet young Bifur was a bit of a handful for someone as quiet and reserved as Bomris ^^ I can only imagine that he was a rather loud and boisterous dwarfling.

Oh he was! SUCH a handful. But, from Bomris’ Meet a Dwarrowdam blurb: 

She
loves her family to pieces and often went without so that Bifur, her
enthusiastic and ebullient son, could be clothed and fed. Bifur is loud and boisterous with everyone except her.

Bifur’s gentle, cautious side was very much a legacy of his mother’s influence: that delicateness and quietness that helps him to craft those intricate toys. She was always soft-spoken, but always warm and loving. Her silence wasn’t one to shut people out. She made a quiet and peaceful place for people to rest and be together.

Kifur is a bit more outgoing, and loves a beer and a sing-song and a dance and a dust-up (though he isn’t anywhere near the epic levels of partying that say, Gimli or Bofur are capable of.) Compared to his friends, he’s definitely the more sedate one! 

Their cripplingly-poor little home had a lot of love in it.

Ohhhhh Kifur and Bomris are so sweet <3 I feel so sorry for Bomris, she has it so hard. She won my heart a little bit when she called Bifur "little magpie" because that is the cutest damn nickname for him.

Awwwwww! Thank you, Nonnie! Yes, Bomris has had a very hard life. All that crushing poverty has left her tired and resigned, but she keeps going. She loves her little magpie, oh so much. And Bifur is hugely protective of his diminutive, introverted, soft-spoken little mum.