idk, I don’t think Dori would be the sort of person to go and criticise another person’s parenting (I have a new appreciation for how insulting and judgemental people can be about the decisions we make for the good of our kids, lol). He’d more likely try to provide the hellion Gimizh with a good example, to my mind.
Besides, it might feel sort of… nostalgic? in a way? To be running after and grumbling about a red-haired menace with a nose for trickery. A little slice of a life long gone.
Yes, Gimris definitely would have been helping young!Baris out with her army of siblings!
For reference, Baris is 136 during LOTR. She was born in T.A. 2883. Gimris is the younger of the two, at 133, born T.A. 2886. (Gimris is 8 years younger than Gimli).
I imagine that, being two little lasses in Ered Luin, they would have been very fast friends from a young age. Baris is a sweet warm cheery retiring sort of girl, who likes to laugh. Gimris is very funny and witty and charming – and would quite happily bite the knees of anyone who took advantage of her friend’s kind nature.
(She also would have cut people into ribbons with her sharp tongue if they had dared suggest that a girl from a well-to-do, noble family should not be spending time with poor Broadbeam riffraff.)
Baris’ youngest sibling Albur is only 78, nearly half her age. So you can imagine that when Gimris visited her friend she would have been put to child-watching immediately! She’s watched all of her friend’s massive family grow up, really (including all the pains and dramas that involves). As Baris’ utterly stunningly beautiful bestie, she would also have had to deal with a couple of starry-eyed kids being all moony and gushy over her.
Baris’ house was CHAOS when they were growing up, and so they spent a great deal more time over at Gimris’ house anyway. This also allowed Gimris the opportunity to slip a couple of rolls or a sweet into Baris’ pockets, or ‘lend’ her a hair-clip or dress and ‘forget’ to ask for it back. Gimris is not very good at speaking her softer side – but she is very very good at demonstrating it!
The look her friend gave her was enough to make her wish she hadn’t ever done so. Not because Gimris was cross, oh no. Because she looked gleeful.
Ever since, Gimris has teased Baris by calling her ‘dear little niecey’ and ‘our Baris’ and the like, just to watch her normally rather cheery, jolly friend roll her eyes and scowl in mock-annoyance back at her.
Gimris is a snarky younger sister. Mock her at your peril. Older siblings, be warned.
(it’s actually not all that annoying – and who knows? Snarking with Gimris might build a bit of Baris’ social confidence. She’s not very assertive when she’s not onstage, after all.)
aviva0017 said:[cont] wants a partner and kids of his own. 😦
*wibbles* AVI
AVI NO
Thank goodness Bofur meets Gimris and the most awkward courtship in history begins. But.
All those years watching Bombur’s family grow and grow – can’t remember how long, but it’s seventy years at least. All those years, all those kids, and Bofur wistfully dreaming of his own one day and never seeming to find it. Augh.
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