Tag: dwarves

Any ideas about which Sansukh characters have the biggest sweet tooth? (Also Thrain is a bear for maple candy. No regrets, even when it gets all in his beard and Hrera Disaproves.)

(*whispers* I… have never tried maple candy is it nice)

I think that Bomfris might actually have something of a sweet tooth, actually! Her whole family would know that when she comes in from the raven-heights, hide the lollies, because she will chomp ‘em all. 

Balin is particular to cake – especially Bombur’s lovely Shire-inspired cakes. Mmmm.

Jeri has been known to make toffee. It is very, very good. (it is also very VERY HARD. The children call it ‘tasty quartz’, and one piece can last all day – if you’re careful about it.)

And Gimizh, of course, is a great and notorious Cookie-Thief! Wee Thorin actually prefers pie, but try telling Gimizh that when he’s in a cookies mood. Impossible.

Headcanons about the dolls: Once all the stories are told and peace comes, dolls of literally everyone get made: there’s Faramir, Eowyn and Eomer, Theoden (and their horses), Treebeard and the Ents, Each wizard, Radagast and his rabbits and sled, Saruman (2 versions: one with white robes and another tye-died), the 2 Blue Wizards, there’s even one of Gandalf’s Shadowfax. Of elves like Elrond, Celeborn, Galadriel, Arwen, Elladan, Elrohir, Haldir, etc. (Part 1)

(Part 2) Laerophen eventually ends up with dolls of his brothers and father while in Erebor (Gimizh and the kids give them to him; they worry about their loved ones too and the dolls help them so they figure the dolls would help him too). He’s not quite sure what to do with them, but he keeps them anyway safe in his room and they go with him back to the Greenwood. Legolas eventually visits Erebor and gets them too, along with a Gimli, Tauriel, Fellowship set, and dolls of the friends he made.

(Part 3) Gandalf was given a doll of Bilbo by a dwarfling years ago and couldn’t refuse it. He secretly loves the dolls and has collected a doll of everyone he’s ever met since. He keeps them safe in Rivendell and takes them with them when he sails. (It’s a large chest that ends up holding them all.)

This is all SO cute, omfg. I can’t believe that a little detail in the fic has turned into such a lovely world-building thing, and that people are thinking up their own headcanons for it! *boggles and awwws* 

(I AM TOTALLY STUCK ON TIE-DYED SARUMAN HELP HELP HE IS SO TUBULAR AND RAD)

Hey Dets! :] Awhile back I think I saw someone who drew some lovely fanart of Dis, and they spoke to you about her mourning marks? Could you maybe tell us more about those, if you haven’t already? (and if you have, I didn’t see it I suck oops, sorry!) Thanks <3

Hey Fox! 

(if it’s not cool to publish this publically, just let me know, k? I just wanted to take the opportunity to get this written and put out there, but if you’re uncomfortable with that – absolutely come thwap me with a rolled-up newspaper)

OKAY – so to your question, though! Here is the placement of Dis’ marks. The inspiration, btw, came from the individual symbols/patterns used for each Dwarf in the film. You can see them here.

Balin’s – above her
right eye

Parents – on her
back (guarding her, she likes to think)

Vili – over her
heart

Oin – over her left
wrist

Dain – cheekbone, under her right eye, vertically opposite Balin’s (eventually)

Thror’s – right
collarbone

Hrera – right side of her neck, under
her ear

Thorin’s – right
side of her chest, opp Vili

Frerin – Right
shoulder

She wears no tattoo
for her sons: instead, she wears their beads in her hair, one for each of her
Lineage-braids either side of her temples. That way she gets to touch them
every morning and night.

You’ll spot that the vast majority of her marks line down her body on the right, from her brow all the way to her chest. They march down in a line, each one a silent memorial. 

So Bofur knows that some of Bilbo’s cousins dress up their Dwalin dolls in skirts and play tea party. So Bofur makes up some Dwarrowdam dolls and sends them over. They are most popular with fauntlings, and are often found at tea-tables. The gag gift of a Dwalin-doll in a formal court gown has pride of place in Bilbo’s study.

kailthia:

dain-mothafocka:

determamfidd:

AWWWWW ❤ ickle Hobbits with their pretty and ferocious Dwarf toys, sipping tea from toy cups. I love it.

(and everyone expects Dwalin to be annoyed by it. The first time he comes across one of his dolls in a lovely red gown, he picks it up and frowns at it. The room takes a collective breath. 

Then Dwalin whirls upon Bofur and shoves the doll into his face. “Red? RED? Line of Durin, remember? Bofur. Should be blue. Get it right.” 

Then he purses his lips and squints at the doll a little more. “Nice lace though.”

He buys one for Orla, who puts it with the others. Wee Frerinith likes to play with its hair.)

The dwarves being confused as to why the hobbit parents are so embarrassed  at their kids dressing up Dwalin in dresses.

Then they REALISE

it’s only that goddamn GENDER BINARY

The collective face palm can be heard from Erebor to the Shire

determamfidd, does Orla have a collection of Dwalin dolls? Because I am imagining her going by the shelf every day and looking at it in approval. Thorin would laugh so hard the first time he saw  he saw it. 

TBH I imagine that it started as a collection of Dwalin-dolls? It most likely began with the toy that Wee Thorin won from Gimizh. 

And then it soon grew out of control. 

Orla would totally become the undisputed champion doll-collector of Erebor. She would get the whole Company a couple of times over (in their different outfits, naturally), several of the small-run limited edition dolls such as Azaghal, Narvi and Telchar. She would have every edition of her own doll. She would casually walk by the toy-shop every day and stare into the window with worrying intensity.

She treasures that first Dwalin doll, though. That was the one that began it all.

Headcanon: Dain 1’s craft was glassblowing. The Grey Mountains have a lot of the ingredients needed for fancy glass-work, and so something similar to Murano glass-work developed there. Forra has lots of very pretty glass jewelry (Hrera has a bunch too). Thorin learned a lot about flower language from Dain, because a lot of glass-work has flowers on it because that’s what people like to buy. Thorin’s workshop has flower-patterned candle-holders from Dain.

OH OH GOOD YES I LOVE IT

Dain I is definitely the sort of Dwarf to go in for glassblowing: the intricate, delicate dangerousness of it!