So I’m rereading your amazing fic and I saw you mentioned the different dwarf clans. I remember the Longbeards, Firebeards, Broadbeams, and the Blacklock but what were the others cuz I couldn’t find the chapter where you listed them (btw keep up the amazing work you are awesome)

Oh hey Nonnie!

The families of the Dwarves are:

Western Dwarves

Longbeards (our main posse, descended from the eldest of the Original Dwarves, Durin, who was bound in sleep and then woke up at Mt Gundabad)

Broadbeams (woke in the Blue Mountains.)

Firebeards (Blue Mountains too. The cities of the Firebeards and Broadbeams were lost when Beleriand was tipped into the ocean during the War of Wrath. They were called Nogrod and Belegost. The range of Ered Luin broke in two and half of it was sunk, and so the remnants of both the Firebeards and Broadbeams fled to Khazad-dum and became a part of the Longbeard population.)

Eastern Dwarves

Blacklocks

Stiffbeards

Ironfists

Stonefoots

(Each of these clans is descended from one of Mahal’s original seven dwarves. The progenitors of the Eastern clans woke in the Orocarni or Red Mountains, far to the East in Rhun.)

I cannot stop myself from giving more information than necessary, can I 😉

In relation to the dancing post – Elves really like shows of dexterity and skill, so imagine sometime after the War of the Rings is over, Gimli realizes that Legolas has never seen an axe dance. Any axe dance. and Gimli happens to be very good at them.

*bites lip* UNGH. Okay, that’s absurdly awesome and I love it. A lot.

you utter flirt, Gimli. ❤

Dets! What part of Middle-Earth are the Broadbeam’s from? (I may or may not be attempting to make a Broadbeam dumpling stew recipe. Shhhh…)

aviva0017:

determamfidd:

OOOOOOH. Tell me how it turns out! And if you want to, you can absolutely send me a recipe! ~~Sansukh Cookbook ahahahaha~~

OKAY. I’m paraphrasing here, please tell me if I am remembering any of this wrong!

So. Broadbeams were one of the three Western clans of Dwarves. Durin of the Longbeards woke at Mt Gundabad and wandered in the Misty Mountains before he proceeded to build Khazad-dum.

(I’ve always felt that this makes the colonisation of Mt Gundabad by Orcs particularly awful for the Dwarves, aside from the military implications – Mt Gundabad would be a very sacred place. Durin slept there for long ages, and first woke there. OUCH. Jeez. Dwarves can’t catch a break.)

The other two Fathers of the Dwarves (Broadbeams and Firebeards) woke in the Blue Mountains, or Ered Luin. They built their cities there. The Broadbeams built Belegost, and the Firebeards built Nogrod.

Both were lost after the War of Wrath, in which half the Blue Mountains were tipped into the sea. Most of the surviving Dwarves fled to Khazad-dum and mixed with the populace there.

(In Sansukh, I am using the ruins of Belegost as the setting for the Longbeard refugees of Erebor).

For interest, the other four clans (Stiffbeard, Blacklock, Ironfist, Stonefoot) woke in the Orocarni (Red Mountains), to the East 😉

Only thing here that’s technically incorrect is that all we know canonically is that the Broadbeams and Firebeards built Nogrod and Belegost. We don’t know if each city belonged to one race or if they built/inhabited both together. The Nogrod-Firebeards and Belegost-Broadbeams division is technically fanon, though very reasonable fanon that I tend to also use.

That’s super ridiculously nitpicky but you asked XD Good answer otherwise (and man I hope somebody makes that recipe >.>)

Ah, thanks avi! ❤

SOUP. MMMM.