Why did I picture Glóin going like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yqyixwqiCag
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Tag: gloin
Hi! I have a kind of random question, if that’s okay? Does Laindawar make any friends in Erebor? Laerophen made a ton of dwarfling friends (and probably endeared himself a bit to their families by now), but does Laindawar ever make any friends in the mountain? Also, other random question: how do the remains of the company (minus Gloin who was very…vocal) feel about Gimli and Legolas, or just Thranduil being in the mountain for awhile?
Hey Nonnie!
Well, we’ll have to wait and see if the cactus Elf manages to un-prickle a bit!
the answer is yes, but it is a sort of unexpected person he befriends
Ooooh, okay – well, there have been 300 Elves in the Mountain for months, so the vast vast majority of Dwarves are very used to their company now, and are appreciative of their help. Thranduil himself is riding a big wave of public approval for bringing food when they were so desperate. That said, here’s how the remaining company members feel about Thranduil himself being in the Mountain.
- Gloin = FUCK YOU WITH A PITCHFORK YOU ASSHOLE
- Dwalin = One wrong move… just one wrong move… my axe is ready… just say somethin’ about barrels… just one little word…
- Dori = MORE work? Really? More bloody work? More guests to take care of, feed and house and organise??? A ROYAL guest, no less! Can I rest??? CAN I LIVE
- Bofur = *eating popcorn and watching with a certain sense of satisfaction and glee*
Aaaaaand here’s how they feel about Gimli and Legolas:
- Gloin = APOPLECTIC FURY / WORRY / SADNESS / MORE WORRY / FEAR / DOUBT / WORRY WORRY WORRY WORRYYYYY
- Dwalin = … what the actual fuck, Gimli. He’s lost his mind. Too much sun. Been dropped on his head again.
- Dori = ew.
- Bofur = *laughing hysterically, popcorn spilling everywhere*
Gimizh actually did manage to steal some of Dain’s clothes once. There was a holiday party in which both Gimizh and his parents and Dain and his family slept over at Dwalin’s family’s apartment (as well as some other friends/family). Gimizh woke up super-early and went on a clothes-purloining streak, which included Dain’s shirt. And Gloin’s jacket, and Wee Thorin’s pants. None of which matched, at all.
Gimizh and Laerophen have at least one matching outfit. Gimris isn’t sure whether she wants to laugh or cry, Gloin goes and yells in a corner for a minute, then pointedly complements Laerophen on his outfit. Bofur is just losing it. Watching the tiny dorf and the gangly elf hanging out, being all matchy matchy.
OH MY GOD MATCHY MATCHY ELF AND BABY DORF.
my fave part of this is Gloin, tbh. Imagining him going into a corner to screech between his teeth for a solid five seconds. Then coming back calmly and saying, “you’re wearin’ the belt upside-down. But… y’ look… decent. Well done.”
This is a recording of myself (EEP) reading aloud the awesome sonnet written by @morvidra for chapter 42 of Sansukh.
It describes the circumstances – and consequences – of the fateful letters sent to Thranduil and Gloin in glorious, glorious iambic pentameter!
I’ve reproduced the poem under the cut for accessibility, but here is the original post – please go shower @morvidra with adulation 🙂
Violin playing by me (DOUBLE EEP). The tune is the renaissance dance air ‘Daphne’.
Sonnet, by @morvidra
The letters with the news of love were sent
From Gondor’s battlefields, up to the North
Where valour held the orcish armies back,
And dwarves and elves alike did muster forth.
Most caref’ly crafted were these missives writ,
The word to break – to dull the hammer blow.
Long thought they spent upon them – then dispatched,
Them to their families – those recent foes.
Alas that fortune ever plays such jokes,
And placed these families both upon one ground
When they received the news – and then, once more,
Was battle seen anew within that mound.
O careless lovers – well-intentioned fools!
Send letters – yes! – but add a lot of booze!
do you ever tell your siblings to eat a thing that will make them sick just to see if they’ll actually do it?
when you want to make some melancholic broody music ™ but your cousins are having none of that
All the time at my place
(1/3) OMG I SAW A NEW CHAPTER OF SANSUKH AND HAD TO READ IT IMMEDIATELY. (And I’m honestly a little sad that it is going to be over in about 8 chapters. Like, I’m happy for you. But a little sad for me. Because following Sansukh has been fun and amazing for years, and I miss it. I’m sure the end will be amazing and totally worth it! But I will still be a little sad when it is over.) But that said: the new chapter is amazing! I had too many favorite parts to list them all. But I had one thought:
(2/3) I get that Gimli and Legolas’ families are a little shocked to be getting this news via letters. And as a sister myself, I completely understand Gimris’ position that he should have told them in person, the trollbrain. But given how far Gimli and Legolas have come, I’m not sure their families could have handled it all at once when they saw them again, without any warning at all. Like, the letters are shocking, sure. But if Gloin and Thranduil are going to cause an international incident
(3/3) over some letters, what might they have done if Gimli and Legolas had broken out the banter and the innuendo without any warning at all? For that matter, even with the warning I image they’ll be a little shocked. Perhaps when the families reunite, they will decide to be grateful for those letters after all…
I kinda wanna give you a GIANT prize, bc yeah – that is in fact the idea! They thought about it very carefully after all, Legolas was p sure it would have been a bad idea to spring themselves upon their families all unaware and unprepared. Something truly irreparable could have happened. Disowning, or even harm. You get the picture.
the letters are an attempt to circumvent that. Probably would have worked really well, too, if Thranduil were still in the Greenwood.
And so, yup, the timing truly truly sucks, what with Thranduil and Gloin in the same mountain, and a new peace and era of friendship being born and puppies and kittens and butterflies etc. A gigantic interracial royal family fight isn’t exactly conducive to the whole ‘Most Favoured Nation’ vibe, heh.
BUT the idea was actually very sound!
Aw Yiss 