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.”
I think that was a headcanon thought up and submitted by a Nonnie? Bc i don’t believe I’ve ever planned for Dis to attend the coronation, I am so sorry!
But Dis has a few more things to see and do, so hang tight, Nonnie!
Oh god, this is a bugbear for anybody I think. I made up some naming conventions for Dwarves, which I have linked here.
Tolkien mined the Völuspá saga for his Dwarf names… and there are actually a whole bunch of names he DIDN’T USE, so go to town!
For the race of Men, I have used names similar in rhythm and vowel quality to the ones Tolkien already made up. It’s worth remembering that every name has a culture attached to it! A Rohirric name is different to a Gondorian one! (e.g. Folcwine, Gamling vs Faramir, Beregond etc).
There’s plenty of Elven Name generators, if you wanted to cheat a bit! Here’s one!
I also made up a WHOLE LIST OF SINDARIN NAMES for possible Mirkwood Elves, using the Sindarin-English dictionary project Hisweloke. Here they are reproduced for you, to get some sort of idea of how I did it!
Laerophen – Tree Song Laindawar – Free Forest Taembeng – Long Bow Ecthelben – spear point Magol – Sword Haedirn – Remote watcher Hathol – Blade Lagorind – swift thought Merilin – nightingale Mithrad – wandering path Talathar – flat land of grass Cúdan – Bow-wright Meneglas – thousand leaves Síriel – daughter of the river
When it comes to the Dwarven dark-names, I spent ages and AGES AND AAAGES wrestling with Neo-Khuzdul to find something that works (and that I can somewhat pronounce!!!)
They’d have to pass through not one, but TWO metaphysical barriers. There’s the wall between the living and the dead, of course. But there’s also the mists between Aman and Middle-Earth that separate the Blessed Realm from the ‘real world’ and keep it apart and inaccessible.
Hell, it’s hard enough for the spirits of the dead dwarves to make it there!
This is just an silly/odd idea, but I like to think that if a dwarf deliberately dropped something into Gimlin-zaram (say, a hammer, or a pen?), it would immediately sink without trace beneath the glowing water. No other change or sign to show its passing.
The next time that dwarf saw Mahal, that hammer or pen would be in His great hand, and he would give off a slight air of mild annoyance. He would give it back with pointedly deliberate movements.
“Please refrain from littering, my child. Please use the bins provided.”
The idea of Mahal somehow gathering litter is hilarious, but this is now making me question far too many things. Like what happens if you tie a string to the pen and lower it into the waters? Does the string snap when the pen disappears from sight or would it just keep feeding into the waters until you have no string left? Is there a bottom to the pool?
Could one pull the pen back up from the pool by the string if it did stay intact?
Could one theoretically swim in the pool? Like if instead of sitting on a bench and staring into the pool, you just jumped into it? Has anyone done that? Would your clothes get wet if you did somehow manage? What would happen if you dropped the pen while you were someplace on Middle Earth? Could someone else from the Hall find the pen later if they went to the exact same spot or does the pen disappear once it’s no longer touching a dead dwarf and Mahal has a dead dwarf litter radar and is going to have to go find this pen because you can’t just leave afterlife pens lying around on Middle Earth. That’s how you break the barrier between the living and dead, children. Could Gandalf pick up the pen and use it or can he only look but not touch? Does he send Mahal a message via god wifi to pick up this pen that Thorin dropped in Bilbo’s room because someone’s going to trip over it and cause a zombie uprising?
I’m going to go to the store before I start wondering about cross dimensional travel and death in the Tolkien universe and whether there’s like invisible litter all over Middle Earth from a bunch of dead dwarves.
But you guys…think of the angst….Thorin figuring out it is possible and leaving Bilbo little gifts with notes on them on his bedside table. Bilbo holding the gifts, smiling and sobbing all at once because his Dwarf is a tremendous sap.
hey no, are you kidding don’t be sorry!! This is the best kind of question – one that makes everyone go ‘HUH WAIT MAYBE…????’ and we all start scratching our heads and putting forth ideas, thinking of new things and possibilities! The best kind of question!
*hugs* No being sorry, okay?? *hugs some more* never be sorry for having an open and an inquisitive mind. Ever!
They’d have to pass through not one, but TWO metaphysical barriers. There’s the wall between the living and the dead, of course. But there’s also the mists between Aman and Middle-Earth that separate the Blessed Realm from the ‘real world’ and keep it apart and inaccessible.
Hell, it’s hard enough for the spirits of the dead dwarves to make it there!
This is just an silly/odd idea, but I like to think that if a dwarf deliberately dropped something into Gimlin-zaram (say, a hammer, or a pen?), it would immediately sink without trace beneath the glowing water. No other change or sign to show its passing.
The next time that dwarf saw Mahal, that hammer or pen would be in His great hand, and he would give off a slight air of mild annoyance. He would give it back with pointedly deliberate movements.
“Please refrain from littering, my child. Please use the bins provided.”
The idea of Mahal somehow gathering litter is hilarious, but this is now making me question far too many things. Like what happens if you tie a string to the pen and lower it into the waters? Does the string snap when the pen disappears from sight or would it just keep feeding into the waters until you have no string left? Is there a bottom to the pool?
Could one pull the pen back up from the pool by the string if it did stay intact?
Could one theoretically swim in the pool? Like if instead of sitting on a bench and staring into the pool, you just jumped into it? Has anyone done that? Would your clothes get wet if you did somehow manage? What would happen if you dropped the pen while you were someplace on Middle Earth? Could someone else from the Hall find the pen later if they went to the exact same spot or does the pen disappear once it’s no longer touching a dead dwarf and Mahal has a dead dwarf litter radar and is going to have to go find this pen because you can’t just leave afterlife pens lying around on Middle Earth. That’s how you break the barrier between the living and dead, children. Could Gandalf pick up the pen and use it or can he only look but not touch? Does he send Mahal a message via god wifi to pick up this pen that Thorin dropped in Bilbo’s room because someone’s going to trip over it and cause a zombie uprising?
I’m going to go to the store before I start wondering about cross dimensional travel and death in the Tolkien universe and whether there’s like invisible litter all over Middle Earth from a bunch of dead dwarves.
Aw Yiss 