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I’m not sure how it happened, but a post on my dash got me started on a massive trawl of the Tolkien’s dwarves tag and  I ended up somehow discovering this most excellent (ongoing) story, Sansûkh by Determamfidd.

I could praise it all day, but I’ll spare you. Anyway, the thing is, it totally rekindled my feelings over Legolas and Gimli’s relationship.

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oooh any excuse to reblog this amazing work again! 🙂

Legolas makes a game of hiding flowers in Gimli’s hair, in between the rings of his chain mail, anywhere and everywhere he can. When Gimli doesn’t catch him, he wears them all day without realizing, and everyone stares. Aragorn attempts to moderate Urgently Important Meetings with various Gondorian advisers about the reconstruction of the Gate while keeping a straight face even though Gimli is yelling oaths at some idiot alderman while wearing a crown of buttercups.

omg i love it

especially scandalous was the day that Legolas threaded bluebells into Gimli’s beard.

The two long full plaits were exactly as they had appeared for decades, with nary a sign to show that someone else had twined them. But these tiny telltale flowers meant that someone had put their presumptuous elvish fingers upon Gimli’s beard.

!!!!?! *insert Dwarvish spluttering*

And so, this begged the question: for how long had this been going on, with no one the wiser??? 

Meanwhile, Gimli carried on with blithe unconcern, his first concern the work as always. And if Legolas hid a smile when he caught a glimpse of the winking, nodding blue tucked into that wealth of fire-red, and if he glowed with secret joy when he saw how Gimli bore his bluebells with quiet dignity and pride, well. 

Elves have their own ways, after all. 

I think Narvi would be having rather fun with Legolas and Gimli’s romance XD

I would think that Narvi figured it out so early. She’s not tremendously observant when it comes to people, but hey. She is a genius, and this situation is not dissimilar to something… important. 

And then she would have watched with some small amusement as every other member of the Dead Dwarf Peanut Gallery figured it out, one by one. 

(She probably invented popcorn just for this purpose.)

can you imagine the lilo and stitch scene with nani chasing lilo around the house cause she was being a little shit or whatever but with legolas and gimli? cause i watched the movie a while back and now that’s just been stuck in my head for a while now. seriously just search it up on youtube, i don’t know how funny it will be to you guys cause i laugh at everything, but i’ve been in tears for a while now.

oh MY GODDDD

CALLING @darthstitch

Now because of the Elves-can-grow-beards anons i find myself wondering, what DO Dwarrows think of elves with beards? is it attractive?, do they think it’s kinda weird??, maybe even insulting? what abut Humans with beards? are they considered attractive? after all we can be a hairy bunch and stocky to boot AND the most important question…would Leggy wear a fake beard to turn Gimli on? like the Dwarf/Elf version of sexy lingerie?

I… don’t know what Dwarves would think, tbh! I suspect it would depend on the Dwarf (and the Elf and/or Man) in question! For some it would be very attractive, I suppose. Others, it might be “…uh. Well, good for you, I suppose.”

I do enjoy the idea that the Dead Dwarf Peanut Gallery thought Aragorn’s beard was a bit… scrappy, at first, heheh. It improved over time, of course!

I think Gimli would be perfectly content (read: totally sappily enamoured) with however Legolas is at any given point in time. 

such fake-beard shenanigans would make a HILARIOUS read, though!!!