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Did preteen!Gimli have an awkward beard growing in phase? Like, was he carefully tracking growth to see when his chin tuftiness would meet his sideburns? Was he staring at the mirror every day wishing that those two bald patches by his chin would grow over? Mizim tried to comfort him but it didn’t help much. Gimris’ good-natured beard-related heckling was also a constant.

From the fic itself:

A burly young Dwarf, not even seventy, was stacking wood for the braziers that would warm the night-watchmen. His bright red hair was pulled back into workman’s braids, his short beard thick on his cheeks and tied into two small braids that stuck out either side of his chin. His face was set and pale. “Glóin’s son,” he said in surprise.

“Aye,” said Frerin. “Did you forget him?”

(ch2)

And 

Mizim smiled at him, and threaded two golden beads onto the short tufting braids of his beard. “You look very handsome,” she told him.

“For a troll,” Gimrís added cheerfully.

“Gimrís!” Mizim snapped. Her daughter rolled her eyes.

(Ch3)

OH AND AND AND ALSOOOO

“Oh,” Frodo said, and he looked puzzled for a moment. “It seems so strange. I mean, sixty is passing middle-age for a Hobbit, and yet it’s only young to a Dwarf.”

Gimli smiled at him. “Very young. Your uncle met me a few years after the Quest, and no doubt he thought me a very raw and callous youth. Why, I could barely braid my beard properly, and it stuck out in two tufts! Terribly embarrassing. I’m glad none here saw it!”

(Ch11)

LASTLYYYYY

From Follow the Leader:

He bows his head, and then he looks up once more, a sad smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. He reaches up and unbinds his short beard before taking out his belt-knife and cutting three locks from it. Hair already dusts the feet of the three statues: some more will not make an appreciable difference. His bright red hair joins the others, to moulder away along with the bones of the honoured dead.

“You bloody sods,” he says, and then he laughs softly. The echoes laugh back: a thousand Gimlis are laughing at him. “My beard is long enough to braid now,” he says to the solemn face of Kíli. “No more tufts. How jealous you would be!”

SO yeah – the answer is yes, he had an awkward tufty time of it for a while. 

thestarsforeverdwell:

Favourite LotR moments | Éomer thanking Gimli after the attack on the Hornburg gates.

The postern was closed again, the iron door was barred and piled inside with stones. When all were safe within, Éomer turned: “I thank you, Gimli son of Glóin!” he said. “I did not know that you were with us in the sortie. But oft the unbidden guest proves the best company. How came you there?”
“I followed you to shake off sleep,” said Gimli; “but I looked on the hillmen and they seemed over large for me, so I sat beside a stone to see your sword-play.”
“I shall not find it easy to repay you,” said Éomer.
“There may be many a chance ere the night is over,” laughed the Dwarf. “But I am content. Till now I have hewn naught but wood since I left Moria.”

vveirdvvoman:

Sooooo, I’ve never done cosplay before! I’ve always loved it and wanted to try, but I could never chose someone to cosplay.

I’ve been inspired by the incredible ladies who cosplay a bunch of dwarrowdams from Sansukh and I found some things I’ve had laying around that would be really good for a Gimli cosplay. Look at the vibrancy of that red beard (it was actually a wig until a few hours ago when I took some scissors to it)! The red ribbon on the mustache part of it isn’t permanent, I just need it there until I secure what needs to be secured.

I chose Gimli’s blue look from Aragorn’s coronation. Only dilemma is I can’t decide whether to leave the tunic as it is or cut the sleeves of so I can wear some shiny armor type shirt under it. I’m basing my cosplay off of the art from the chapter this comes from by

dreamfleet.

with a few alterations. In the future I want to do the Legolas side of this bc I have the perfect silvery shirt. 

*SCREECHES SOFTLY* HELLO GIMLIIIIII

vardasvapors:

`I need no map,’ said Gimli, who had come up with Legolas, and was gazing out before him with a strange light in his deep eyes. `There is the land where our fathers worked of old, and we have wrought the image of those mountains into many works of metal and of stone, and into many songs and tales. They stand tall in our dreams: Baraz, Zirak, Shathûr.

`Only once before have I seen them from afar in waking life, but I know them and their names, for under them lies Khazad-dûm, the Dwarrowdelf, that is now called the Black Pit, Moria in the Elvish tongue. Yonder stands Barazinbar, the Redhorn, cruel Caradhras; and beyond him are Silvertine and Cloudyhead: Celebdil the White, and Fanuidhol the Grey, that we call Zirak-zigil and Bundushathûr.

`There the Misty Mountains divide, and between their arms lies the deep-shadowed valley which we cannot forget: Azanulbizar, the Dimrill Dale, which the Elves call Nanduhirion.’

`It is for the Dimrill Dale that we are making,’ said Gandalf. `If we climb the pass that is called the Redhorn Gate, under the far side of Caradhras, we shall come down by the Dimrill Stair into the deep vale of the Dwarves. There lies the Mirrormere, and there the River Silverlode rises in its icy springs.’

`Dark is the water of Kheled-zâram,’ said Gimli, `and cold are the springs of Kibil-nâla. My heart trembles at the thought that I may see them soon.’

-The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, “The Ring Goes South”

ultrafangoddes:

The quote is “

And, Legolas, when the torches are kindled and men walk on the sandy floors under the echoing domes, ah! then, Legolas, gems and crystals and veins of precious ore glint in the polished walls; and the light glows through folded marbles, shell-like, translucent as the living hands of Queen Galadriel. There are columns of white and saffron and dawn-rose, Legolas, fluted and twisted into dreamlike forms.” As said by Gimli in The Two Towers. I love this line because it shows how taken Gimli is with the caves and his passion to make Legolas understand why he is so in awe of this place. Also, I love Gimli and with the newest update to Sansukh, I thought this would be fitting.

giggle-fit:

Finished. For @determamfidd and her epic Sansukh.

*grips heart* oh my GOD

oh my GOD – this – words FAIL me – I am just astounded by the skill and detail and wonderfulness of this!! *SCREAMS UNTIL THE MOUNTAINS RING* LOOOOOOOOKKKKK!

Gimli! Legolas! Thorin and Bilbo and oh god the tears, the tears are OW, and Frodo and Sam here are so goddamn perfect i am cry, Frodo’s face and Sam’s sweet resolute expression and HELP ME I KEEP LOOKING AT ALL THIS DETAIL AND FLAILING – Legolas’ armour and the Art Nouveau travery on his tunic and the Durin Blue on Gimli (THAT TEXTURE!!!) and the brooch, and HIS CHEEK-TASTIC GRIN I am gonna hyperventilate here!

and omg Barad-Dur in the background SO PERFECT YES BECAUSE YES OH MY GOSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHH

thank you! Thank you SO SO MUCH!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!