“I never meant to worry him,” Gimli said, his eyes falling again.

“Aye, but you do, and you have, and you will again. That’s what your children do.”

Oh dear wise Bofur. That’s my second favorite line of the chapter.
(via kestrelhill)

Same, Gimli, same

Gimli isn’t having any of Thorin’s self-hating nonsense, and Thorin isn’t having any of Gimli’s self-deprecation 😉 they make a p good balance, these days!

lesbiankiliel:

Aaaaaand I’m crying!

*hugs you wordlessly and passes the tissues*

Gimizh-art on the walls of Gloin and Mizim’s house! Also probably on the walls at his parents’ house and at Gimli’s (does Gimli still live at home?). There is a clear progression in the quality of the pictures – some are toddler scribbles, and the later ones show increased fine motor skills, imagination, etc. His color schemes and choice of subjects is still … questionable sometimes. Though Gimli features in a lot of the art.

Gimli does indeed live at home. He’s got a couple of rooms to himself, but they are within the family apartments. I feel that in a society where you have to carve rooms out of a mountain, it would make more sense for families to stick together a lot! Gimris and Bofur have their own rooms, though.

Moving out at adulthood is a pretty recent Western conceit, and I like to think that Dwarves like to stick close to family. 😀

Gimizh’s pictures are pretty indecipherable at times! His imagination goes at the kind of throttle that his hand can’t quite match!

I have a potentially stupid question, sorry in advance! But near the end of Dis’ main scene in the new chapter, it almost seemed like she could actually hear Vili? Or was that just Gimli telling her what Vili said? I know Thorin told Gimli to tell Dis that Vili watched her daily, which he did, but Vili spoke after that and it kind of seemed like she heard him. So, am I just nuts from sleep-deprivation, or could she actually hear him (veil thinning as she gets closer to it?)

awwww, that’s not a stupid question, not at all! Nah, she’s not hearing him – but I made a choice to drop all the ‘Gimli repeated’ lines towards the end of the scene – they only slowed the pace and they were implied anyway 🙂

But dang, I do like that idea…!!!

lesbiankiliel:

Ah, the more sophisticated way to say, “Dude, chill.”

SETTLE, PETAL.

lesbiankiliel:

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Also I’m Frerin

my turn to EEP

*hides* SORRY

lesbiankiliel:

Gimrís is life goals too (and wife goals)

Actually all Dets’s Dwarrowdams are life goals and wife goals

<33333

lesbiankiliel:

And this is the level of sarcasm I hope to achieve

Gimli’s beard is made of sass, that’s why it’s so big

tardislemur:

My dash is freaking out over the Sansuhk update, and I’m right there with them. I mean: it’s four in the morning, I didn’t get to sleep before 5am the past two days, I know I need sleep but I can’t even feel my exhaustion I’m so…wow. And what’s funny is that most the excitement is being caused by ‘Light on the Horizon’, which..wasn’t actually my favorite thing about the chapter. Don’t get me wrong, I’m in absolute awe at @determamfidd. This song is 6 minutes of gorgeousness. I’ll probably steal the piano from my dad tomorrow and try and it out, and definitely force my friends who haven’t even heard of Sansuhk to listen to it. But my favorite part was actually the scene between Gimli and Dis. The symmetry with their first meeting way back in chapter 4, maybe. The words; the emotions. Even Thorin echoing himself. They’ve gone the full circle right back to where they began

(If you haven’t read this fic and you’ve even remotely heard of LotR, go read it. Now. Here’s chapter 1.)

And then I realized: Dis’ own marriage was controversial. A princess marrying a poor stonemason? What scandal! She gave up her place in the line of succession (so her sons could inherit.) Of course she would be the first to support Gimli and Legolas. She’s been there. Which makes this scene all the more powerful. She’s looking at this young cousin of hers, a cousin who’s called her ‘aunt’ for 80 years, who’s she’s grown close to, and he’s telling her something that has to be the cruelest joke in Arda. How betrayed she must feel! But then…it’s…true.

I had to grip the side of my laptop while reading this because WOW OMG WOW holy heck you are so damn insightful I am just. staggered. Holy wow.

Yes.

yes, it is COMPLETELY meant to bracket and reflect the first conversation between Gimli and Dis. It’s meant to echo it: the new loss versus the old – and unlike the first conversation, this one resolves. Thorin is, at last, heard. They all are. Before, they were shouting in hopeless desperation: now, she knows. She hears their words at long last.

And yes: Dis knows what it is to be at the heart of a controversy. And she knows what it takes to weather it. She’s behind them. All the way.

Lastly, absolUTELY yes: it seems like utter cruelty to parade before her all that she has lost. The first time we saw her in the fic, she was raging that she was alone. She was completely wretched with her utter aloneness. It appears to be the most exquisite and vindictive cruelty on Gimli’s part when he tells her – until she finally believes it – and then, at last, she understands that she is not alone. She has never been alone.

That whole scene is a circle – or perhaps a mirror. It’s meant to be.

I am so, so honoured that you felt that, and saw that, and it touched you.