Tag: gimli

I have two questions, sorry in advance! The picture on ff for Sansukh, is it supposed to mean something? And (this one isn’t about Sansukh, sorry!) what do you think would have happened if Dis had been part of the Fellowship of the Ring? I mean, she had to stay home while three people she loved marched off only a few decades and it ended in their deaths. What if she accompanied Gimli and Gloin to Rivendell and decided to be part of the Fellowship?

Hi Nonnie, thank you for dropping by! 🙂

Uh, not sure what is meant by ‘ff’ – if you mean FFN, there’s no picture on FFN specifically for Sansukh… just my old author pic (which was the delightful and delicious Eddie Izzard himself, wearing a tiara).

Oh god, hello wonderful story idea. Wow.

Well, for a start, I suspect that she and Boromir would have INSTANTLY understood each other. Also, that people would have TALKED about the Ring’s effect upon them. Y’know, instead of trying to hide it, and so struggle in isolation… and eventually succumb.

I also think that Legolas would have been even more discombobulated. Considering. I mean, one Dwarf is bad enough, the son of one he imprisoned… but hey, let’s throw in the sole surviving member of that branch of the family.

Gimli would have been less alone. He’s the only Dwarf we get to know in any depth in the whole of LOTR, after all.

I actually HUGELY doubt they would have gone through Moria. She LIVED through that bloodbath – she saw fully one half of her people die before that gate. It cost her her King and grandfather, and her brother, and many of her cousins. If I were Dis, I wouldn’t want to see a pebble of that place.

This means that the Balrog lives. This also means that Gandalf is not reborn as Gandalf the White… which means that Saruman keeps his rank as the head and most powerful of the Istari… nnngh, possibly. Possibly… there’s an argument to be made there, but let’s leave that for now.

No Lothlorien. No light of Galadriel. No three hairs. No friendship between Gimli and Legolas.

Perhaps they go via the Gap of Rohan after all, Dis supporting her friend Boromir’s suggestion. He is encouraged to speak about his fears and the increasing pull of the Ring upon his thoughts. So by the time they enter the lands of the horse-lords, he is very aware of his danger and is ready to go back home in order to keep the Quest safe and secret.

Merry and Pippin do not get captured by Orcs. Gimli said he would go to Mordor with them, and so the four Hobbits and Gimli, traipse off towards the Black Gate. “Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens” etc.

But entering Rohan would bring new problems – Saruman, and the Wild Men, and Grima, and the enchantment of Theoden.

But Theodred is still alive. If they pass through Rohan and Gandalf overthrows Saruman’s hold on Theoden’s mind earlier, then his son still lives. Dis, Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas and Gandalf are the new Five Hunters, but what they hunt is not Hobbits captured by Orcs. I can see Dis encouraging the Rohirrim to throw off Grima’s twisted policies and the sly sweet subtleties of Saruman before his stranglehold upon their kingdom becomes complete: his bid for power would be aborted before it could even begin…

Damn, this answer got long, and there’s even more I could go on with, but I am sure this is enough to be going on with for now (before I wrITE ANOTHER 400K MONSTERFIC)

What an amazing question, Nonnie!!!

tis I, the angstnonnie again. Bomfris could also just name her pig Bacon, be really classy. But also: the tiny terrors pig racing. Gimizh names his pig Cookie or something. Gimizh on a pig (he probably would be dressed up as a warrior, like his uncle, Gimli). He tries to use it to steal more treats from the kitchen. Pure chaos ensues. Who thought letting him near pigs was a good idea? How did this happen?

Ello, Angstnonnie 😀

GIMIZH AND COOKIE THE PIG YESSSSS ❤ Pure chaos just seems to happen around Gimzh, it’s like it’s in his aura or something!

Speaking of “in case I die when you’re too young” letters, imagine who else has written these letters, as well as general “in case I die untimely” letters. Dis and Thorin both have stashes for Fili and Kili. Vili was skeptical, but Dis managed to get him to dictate one or two. Gloin did a pile before the quest for Erebor. All the letters before the war of the ring – Dwalin especially, having lost both his parents young.

lksdgfa;sdhsjaljgsalgfakjsh

(the ones from Thorin and Dis for the lads, though… Dis would find them after, and know that they were never meant for her. She would keep Vili’s as well, stained and rumpled from so many years of being crushed in the bottom of one of Fili’s drawers. She would have so many of these letters, all addressed to someone else.

Nobody would have expected her to outlive her children, after all.)

I actually already have Gimli writing a pile of these in Sansukh – he hands them to Gloin when they say farewell at Rivendell. One for Dis, one for the King, one for Gimris and Bofur, one for Gimizh. And one for his parents, of course. 

Gloin and Dwalin definitely would have written lots of just-in-case letters because of losing their parents at Azanulbizar… in fact, I believe Gloin would probably have written a novel (he’s a very organised Dwarf, is Gloin). Dwalin’s would be softer, though… and full of all the things he doesn’t say aloud.