So i know dwarves are very secretive about khuzdul and all, but how would they feel about teaching it to a non-dwarf spouse? (As in, would it be frowned up for Thorin to teach Bilbo or for Gimli to teach Legolas -ignoring the elven factor?)

Gimli would teach Legolas anyway, and cheerfully toss all the disapproving and the scornful into the trash. And laugh heartily at Legolas’ absolutely AWFUL accent and his inadvertent vocab gaffes (”Ah, no lad – you just said “I hope you have a nice bowel movement”. “Ai, I only meant to wish him a good day!” “Well, perhaps a nice bowel movement means a good day for him, you never know. With a sour face like that, in fact, it seems quite likely.” “Meleth nin, you are not helping me here.” )

I expect Bilbo would be INCREDIBLY eager to learn. He loves languages, after all. He probably wouldn’t push to learn, bc cultural taboo, but I bet he’d store all those little commonly said words away where he can pore over them later. LANGUAGES, OH MY. (To his chagrin, he later discovers that most of them are curse-words. Well, the language most people swear in is their mother-tongue, and Thorin did stub his bare toe…)

Culturally, yeah – I think that society would be a bit divided on the issue. Some would consider it only right and proper that a non-Dwarven spouse learn their native tongue. Others would be horrified that an outsider was being coached in their secrets. I don’t think it would be a monolithic disapproval though: Dwarves like an argument, they wouldn’t all uniformly agree.

so um hi! so i came about your gigolas stuff sometime few years back in Ao3 and have read most of your works until my feels were slaughtered for weeks after going through your gigolas week entries. I have yet to read your Sansukh work but Im afraid for my feels again so maybe in time XD I also happen to enjoy yours and everyone’s metas with this ship (i stalk tumblr posts) so thank you! ps. did anyone know what happened to clearbluewater aka inderpendentwoman from ao3,tumblr D:

Awwww, thank you Nonnie! Glad you enjoyed all the Gigolas goodness! And I am STOKED you like all my meta musings!

(I have no idea? I commented on a couple of their works, but i haven’t the foggiest clue what happened to them since. Anybody?)

hahaha can’t help but wonder if Thorin really is the most unobservant dwarf ever or if he was blocking it out so hard or hoping somehow that his sheer level of denial can change facts, i mean, in lorien even before everything he already clearly heard legolas’s “i’ve never been so wrong” & newfound fascination and he was all THAT SOUNDED LIKE…!!! and then promptly refused to entertain the thought of that parellel to be just about the LAST PERSON to know of gigolas. oh, thorin :’D carrock much?

YESSSS THAT PARALLEL

I am still a leeeetle proud of that bit: Legolas saying ‘In all my summers under leaf and bough, I have never been so wrong’ and Thorin basically going WHAT WAIT sdfhlsjdhgfksjhdgf LA LA LA DIDN’T HAPPEN.

Fris is right about her son: he’s magnificent and brave and determined – but he isn’t always the most observant! and yes there was a certain element of IF I IGNORE IT IT’LL GO AWAY involved hahaha