Tag: elves

Dear other anon, there is a difference between bod boys and people who have a gruff personality. A bad boy does shitty things and is a generally shitty person but is also hot. A gruff person is just someone who has more difficulty expressing emotion. Thorin is gruff. Dwarves in general have gruff personalities. His is just accompanied by quiet and less whimsy than say Bofur. The things he does in the last movie are literally bc he has a mental illness triggered by substantial amounts of gold.

aviva0017:

muchymozzarella:

[passing this along. 

Thorin was irritable for many good reasons I don’t need to list if you have any observational skills]

BTW guys on that note the “mental illness” portion, whether equatable or not to our world’s mental illness, is quite literal in the sense that the greed experienced by dwarves is not of their own wills but is induced by Sauron himself, who could not bend the dwarves to his evil but instead poisoned the dwarves’ natural industriousness.

This is why in LOTR it’s a big deal when Galadriel says “your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion” to Gimli

Because dwarves aren’t naturally greedy, and Elves have no place to talk about the greed one of their own (Celebrimbor) caused (even if inadvertently, by creating the rings which Sauron poisoned) in the dwarvish race in the first place. 

I was 100% on board with this until that last paragraph, I’m not even sure what that’s trying to say, but if it’s somehow blaming Celebrimbor of all people for that dwarven greed, when he was just as deceived by Sauron as everybody else, then that’s kind of ridiculous.

The rest of it is pretty spot-on though.

Oh hey, yeah – I would have to agree that Celebrimbor was a total victim in this scenario.

Hi! I was just wondering what Sansukh’s interpretation of the relationship between Legolas and Elrohir/Elladan is like? They didn’t seem to be overly close at their meeting at the Paths of the Dead, so I was just wondering :)

Yeah, sure 😀

Headcanony things, more elves woop woop

Okay, so you’ve probably gathered that I don’t subscribe to the whole ‘ALL TWINS ARE SECRETLY FRED AND GEORGE WEASLEY’ thing that always seems to be ascribed to Elladan and Elrohir. I mean, these guys rescued their own mum from a nightmare and as a result they have a vendetta against orcs that is fucking personal. They’re not light-hearted joke-a-minute pranksters. They have seen some shit, and they mean to kick its arse. 

I think Elladan and Elrohir would have met Legolas once or twice prior to this meeting, being of noble houses. But I doubt they’re friends. They’re not snobs, as Elves go. I don’t actually think any of the Peredhil are snobby: they don’t really have the touchy pride of the Noldor or the stiff resentment of the Sindar. They’ve been so entwined with mortality and for so so long that most of those edges have been rubbed away. 

Legolas, however, thinks that they look down on him. They don’t, not a bit, but he thinks it. For some context on Elrond’s family: Elladan and Elrohir’s grandfather Earendil is one of the greatest heroes in history, he is the goddamned evening star, and is basically worshipped. Their other grandmother is Galadriel. They are the descendants of the who’s who of Middle-Earth. That’s something to keep in mind. 

Legolas is also a bit touchy about them looking down upon Gimli or their affection. Legolas is feeling a bit rustic and Silvan right now! 

Do you know about how tall dwarves and elves are supposed to be in cannon? I had the impression that elves were 6 ft give or take, and dwarves 4’6″, give or take. Which is only a foot and a half difference, 45-ish cm. But a lot of art (lovely, beautiful, wonderful art) seems to show a much bigger difference — differences of 2-3 ft (almost a meter) or more. Is that just artistic license (which is not a problem), or do I have the heights wrong in the first place?

Here is the excellent askmiddlearth’s response. I’m sure I read something in one of the books somewhen/where, but heck if I can remember exactly! 

It appears that Dwarves are between 4-5 feet tall, and Elves are 6ft+. 

(HOLY SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT THINGOL 9’ TALL JEEZ HOW’S THE WEATHER UP THERE)

(also – as a shortarse, I resent the Tolkienesque equation of height = nobility dammit)