I kind of want to see a story about an elf; tall, beautiful, clumsy as fuck, and an industrial worker who can’t do archery to save themselves and swears all the time.
And I kind of want to see a story about a dwarf; short, robust, hairy, elegant, sweet, very refined and a lover of poetry who’s never said a rude word in their life.
I just think it would be an interesting change of pace.
they’re girlfriends
they’re super fucking cute and i need more of this.
Gimli does indeed live at home. He’s got a couple of rooms to himself, but they are within the family apartments. I feel that in a society where you have to carve rooms out of a mountain, it would make more sense for families to stick together a lot! Gimris and Bofur have their own rooms, though.
Moving out at adulthood is a pretty recent Western conceit, and I like to think that Dwarves like to stick close to family. 😀
Gimizh’s pictures are pretty indecipherable at times! His imagination goes at the kind of throttle that his hand can’t quite match!
*hugs* I’m really glad. I COMPLETELY agree that the parallels are blazingly, staggeringly obvious! And I’m beyond glad that you’re satisfied with how I dealt with it, and oh gosh asdgfljash thank you SO SO much!
Hi @determamfidd, i just sent you an ask personally but just to reiterate, I am NOT at all mad or upset, I do not feel attacked by you in anyway. I’m just very impressed. You did a great job capturing awful people like Inorna can truly be. I suppose i’m very protective of people who reflect my own struggle.
I don’t feel like any wounds were opened, actually i felt very happy that someone as horrible as the people that i have dealt with IRL died the way they did, anticlimactic, nothing grand, it felt fitting. I love your writing and would love to share some of my personal head canons
I am SO grateful – and thank you again for your message!! I am very honoured that you feel I have portrayed the anti-semitism your people face with accuracy. And I’m DOUBLY glad I chose to end it in such a way – an ignoble, mean, pathetic and petty end for an ignoble, mean, pathetic and petty view. Squashed like the bug it is. I’m glad it helped – really really glad. *hugs*
Your personal headcanons sound amazing. AMAZING. I would be utterly thrilled to hear more, particularly about your ideas for the Southern Dwarves and the cultural divide there! Seriously and honestly, reading your insights and your concepts made me gasp and reach for my notebook!!
Hi there @callalillyg! I would LOVE to chat further on this, absolutely! Under the cut:
I absolutely ABSOLUTE agree with the Dwarves=Jews angle – if indeed it can even be called an angle, as Tolkien himself said that they were based upon the Jewish people. I’ve explored this in some further detail (with the help of some Jewish friends, as I am a Gentile) in ‘Midwinter’, one of the Sansukh Appendices.
Inorna (and Krummett) serve several purposes in the narrative – but the greatest purpose they serve is in their defeat. She was initially influenced by someone I knew in my teen years: an absolute vile bigot, a bully, a blatant twister of the truth who played victimisation games, and a contemptible manipulator of people’s sympathies. (I still have violent reactions against this sort of behaviour, even today).
When I first developed her character, aaaaaaaaaaaaall the way back in the Bofur-at-Dale scene (written more than two years ago, now), I was worried and angry at the escalating prejudice I could see in the world. There were attacks against Jewish-owned businesses in Europe at the time, for example. A lot of ‘oh well, shame – but what about US’ from many other peoples.
So, Inorna came about, both a character and a symbol. Krummett is that yes-man, the follower: he is emboldened by her outspokenness to air his own nasty attitudes.
I wanted a character to embody that sort of irrational, horrible prejudice, and I wanted the Men of Dale (through Bard and Selga) to utterly refute its place amongst them. Then I wanted the Dwarves and Elves together to both expose and DEFEAT it. With this attitude expunged, the narrative is now open to a new age of acceptance, respect and love for the Dwarves.
I didn’t predict the real-life events of the past few weeks, not at all – I can most certainly see how her vitriol feels more personal to you now, and damn, I am so sorry. I truly did not wish to poke at open wounds, and I am so, so sorry.
I don’t really jive with any depiction of Dwarves as skinny, Nonnie. All of my girls are fuller-figured.
They have different variations and placements of fat and muscle, of course: but they’re all solid and thickset. Here’s a quick list for you, detaling some of them as I’ve come to see them, and I hope it makes you smile! I dearly hope you cosplay a Dwarf lady. I think you would be wonderful. Really wonderful.
– Hrera (A PROPERLY PLUMP BROADBEAM TUMMY, CHUNKY LEGS AND ANKLES, medium bosom, rolls and dimples at her wrists) – Baris (Tummy, big bosom AND thick thighs. Soft arms just right for cuddling. Also, you ever seen a professional opera singer’s ribcage and torso? SHE BUILT.) – Alris (SUPER STRONG ARMS, hella big hips and bum, small bosom – this lady is definitely gifted in the caboose area) – Bomfris (a lovely Broadbeam tummy, muscled arms from archery, very broad shoulders and back, short legs)
– Fris (shortest of my girls. she has a big-hipped pear-bottom with cute pinch-rolls of skin high upon her back, and thick, soft padded arms.)
– Mizim (a famous beauty, she has a clear double chin, a sweet soft tummy, delicious thick thighs that kiss and spill against each other, abundant silvery hair) – Orla (MASSIVE BOSOM. Like, HUGE. MASSIVELY STRONG ARMS, barrel-waisted, heavy-muscled thighs and calves, A BIG LASS) – Dis (STRETCH. MARKS. Loose skin over her belly. Arms that have lost muscle mass for fat instead. LOOSE SKIN.) – Gimris (this girl is a beauty like her mum! CHIN. TUMMY. LOVELY BIG LEGS. She has clearly defined shoulder-muscles from hauling around all day.)
I really, REALLY from-the-bottom-of-my-heart hope that this has given you some confidence and some ideas, Nonnie. I believe you would be a stupendous Dwarrowdam. I truly do.
well, I think they can. (tolkien would definitely disagree with me tho)
what Prof T says is: Dwarves fall in love once, and if it isn’t reciprocated they devote their lives to their crafts.
What Prof T doesn’t say: Whether they fall in love with one person at a time. Fall in love once – okay, gotcha – but nothing says that love must be for one individual alone. 🙂
Moved by heavy cogs and levers, slats of painted wood pushed up from the floor and shot out from the sides of the stage, a dwarven gate suddenly appearing in front of the characters, and a mountain rose above them. Bulbs set into the slats twinkled to life, the mountain gleaming with light.
Frerin gasped, eyes widening almost comically as he watched, and Thorin himself felt a thrill race up his spine at the sight. This really was the production of a lifetime.
one of two illustrations commissioned by the great Mim for our @yubiwamonogatari‘s Elbereth and the Seven Fathers, which is amazing, and you should go read if you like the Durin family and have good taste in fiction and also in life :3
Aw Yiss 