Scuse me, Bagginshield and Gigolas folks, if I could have a moment of your time…
LOOK AT WHAT THIS MENACE IS DOING TO ME
Scuse me, Bagginshield and Gigolas folks, if I could have a moment of your time…
LOOK AT WHAT THIS MENACE IS DOING TO ME


g0ds:
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.
oooh any excuse to reblog this amazing work again! 🙂
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’ve been trying to figure out something to draw of these two for an age now, and well….I saw this post of @determamfidd ‘s and I couldn’t help myself.
Sorry, not sorry I’m currently Lord of the Rings trash. Other things soon, I promise!
SCREECHING LIKE A MADDENED PTEROSAUR
THIS IS AMAZING
Pssst Legolas and Gimli are in love.
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.)
oh MY GODDDD
CALLING @darthstitch
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!!!