Tag: headcanony things

Daeris and Dweris are probably such bros. Like, they’re both kick-ass fighters who married into the line of Durin. They both take very little shit. And the Azanulbizar connection! They spar, and then go and sit in a quiet corner with a beer. (Also the similar name thing)

I have a private little headcanon about their names actually… that people keep mixing them up. (poking a little fun at myself for all the similar-sounding names also, heheheheh) like, beginning a sentence with “Dwer- I mean Daer- um. Sorry, Daeris.” 

this is not at all inspired by my nanna’s old habit of beginning the name of every single one of her grandchildren before she gets to your name, no sirree “An-, uh, K- no, J… Ahhh, Sa-, uh, Ge…”

Dweris just stares them down. She has a mighty stare. Daeris waits patiently – and holds a big sword. 

Frerinith is really the only not salty-natured person in his family. He’s a little sugar donut in a box of salted nuts.

AWWW c’mon Nonnie! they’re all a mix of both sweet and salt! Frerinith is a bossypants and can throw epic tantrums when he doesn’t get his way, after all (yellooooo, toddlers). Wee Thorin is the softest soft on the inside, behind all the sighs and eyerolls. Balinith is a sensitive little soul, and sees bloody near everything. he’s the first to notice when someone is low. Orla is the warmest-hearted woman, god, is she ever. That cool, stern exterior is just that: exterior. And Dwalin… well. 

Frerinith is the most outwardly sunny, certainly! Happy chirpy lil thing.

I forget, did you ever tell us what Gimizh’s craft is going to be when he grows up? Is causing mayhem a craft? (What about the Dwalinuls?)

Uhhh, not really… but I know what they’re gonna be. Under the cut for SPOILERS HEY

Gimizh. Oh Gimizh, my tiny happy mayhem child. 

Is going to inherit the lordship of the Glittering Caves (from Gimris, who takes over briefly after Gimli um. retires?). He’s an awful administrator, but he makes friends as easy. as. breathing. Under his rule, he extends the friendships of the Dwarves further than any before – the Elves, the Men in Rohan and Gondor, you name it, they love him. He’s also FABULOUS at trade and contracts and deals… mostly because he can spot a trick three light-years away. Thanks to his youthful experiences during the Ring War, also, he is a very good judge of character. He’s that Head of State that organises the GIANT PISS-UP and ends up the last one there, singing arm-in-arm with some kinglet or prince he’s never met before. And he’ll remain life-long friends with them too. 

(and he’s also the Head of State who forgets where his assigned rooms are when visiting, and ends up wandering around and poking his nose into everything because ‘it’s all so interesting! Oh hello, d’you work here? What’s that, can I have a go? Nice, thanks! And how old are your kids?’)

Craft-wise, he ends up being a fairly decent warrior (like his idol UNCLE GIMLI ZOMG) – though he is actually better with a bow or a broadsword than an axe. He also ends up being a very good baker (mostly because he missed Barur’s cookies). But yesh, a beloved and incredibly friendly – and yet terrible administrator, absolutely awful at keeping track of things. Absolutely awful.  

Guess who is a good administrator. 

Frerinith. 

Our emphatic, bossy, confident little tyke already has a certain ‘THINGS SHOULD TOTALLY BE DONE THIS WAY’ attitude. He’s going. to. be. tall. He’ll be a lanky stringbean, as Dwarves go, not strong and bullish, like his older brothers… but he’s no weakling or pushover, watch out for that clever legal and administrative mind of his!!! He’ll still be a sunny, cheery fellow, but people soon learn to fear that open, guileless grin – HE’S FOUND SOMETHING OUT, HE KNOWS SOMETHING, OH DANG. 

(He likes making clocks in his spare time. Ooooh, yes, the fiddlier the better. ) 

And so we come to Balinith.

All that reading and study and fascination with the natural world and its workings pays off in a MASSIVE WAY. He builds on the writings of his Cousin Oin, to the point where Dwarvish medicine rivals that of the Elves (and easily surpasses it, in some areas). He collates all the botanical and medical writings of every race he can get: Hobbits, Men, Elves, even Orcs (that cordial they gave Merry, for instance? THAT FASCINATED HIM FOR YEARS after he heard the tale… what the heck was in it???) He categorizes all. ALL. the native flora of the White Mountains, and examines it all for medicinal properties, and the best way to prepare it for different conditions. A mammoth undertaking, and a truly awe-inspiring achievement.

Young Dwarves beg to be taught by Balin Dwalinul. Aglarond becomes renowned as a center of learning as well as beauty. Thanks to him. 

And the oldest of the crew? 

Wee Thorin will NOT be ‘Wee’. NOT AT ALL.  He’ll be shorter than Frerinith… but he’ll fill the doorway. He’s going to be built like a mack truck. 

If Gimizh is a cheery and vivacious Thorin Oakenshield (laugh inserted here lmao), then Wee Thorin is his Dwalin, his closest friend, advisor and right hand. Wee Thorin’s first kills came when he was in his thirties, after all. that’s like, Dain Ironfoot levels of badassery. He is a consummate and professional warrior, a bodyguard and voice of reason. Bulking enormous behind any desk or conference table, his arms huge and his mother’s long-handled axe on his back, tattoos on his cheekbones and all up his neck, a sardonic and outwardly-stern counterpoint to Gimizh’s cheery, happy-go-lucky, sharp-eyed-nosy-sticky-beak method of interaction… 

…who also knits. Delicate lace knitting so fine that it feel like clouds to the touch and can be pulled through one of his earrings with ease. Wee Thorin will be one of the best knitters in all of Middle-Earth. To be gifted a piece made by him for your new child? BEST. GIFT. EVER. 

(there’s also a MASSIVE SPOILER that goes here for Wee Thorin, but I’m not letting it out of the bag juuuust yet…)

Very few people know that Wee Thorin is the softest softy to ever soft. He really is his parents’ child. 

(He never does quite escape that ‘wee’, either. The Dwarvish Little John, really.)

So, yeah, that’s (part of!!!) what I am planning. There are still some things to be ironed out, but that’s the overall direction I am heading with them! This is probably a LOT more detail than anyone ever wanted (how very unlike me lol), but I couldn‘t really talk about their crafts and interests without talking about where these crafts and interests take form. 

Thror totally developed his cuddle monster tendencies for pillows at a young age. He couldn’t snuggle people all the time, ofc. So we have tiny tot Thror with lots of stuffed toys. He has a big bear toy that larger than him that he snuggles with for sleepytime. Later he acquires pillows. Lots of different textures and colours … Several are made of leftovers or recycled clothes of family members.

*misty eyed* AWWW TINY CUDDLY THROR YUSS

Hi, I was rereading Sansukh in preparation for the next chapter drop, and I got to the chapter where you do a brief recap of Zhori, and I am a massive fan of various textile arts, so I decided to share my dwarwen weaving/loom headcannons with you. Okay, so I think Tolkien was writing about a vaguely 10th to 12th centuryish sort of era in LotR, which means that if middle-earth’s technology develops parallel to ours, that means that people would be developing what we call horizontal looms. (1/?)

(2/?) Horizontal looms basically were a revolution, and they were/are ridiculously hard to make by hand, so, who in Tolkien’s world would be making them first, but the dwarves? And horizontal looms are really good for complicated patterns so, the dwarves would be able to make these gorgeously patterned rugs and tapestries, and clothing could have fantastic patterns directly woven in to them. But only well off weavers could probably afford it. So, I headcannon Zhori had a different type of loom.

(3/?) Zhori probably used a warp weighted loom, which is basically a workhorse loom, because you can do practically anything on it. You can tie the shed in place and make cut pile rugs working from the ground up, you can weave long cloth, you can make fancy tapestry on it if you have the patience to warp it. It can even be broken down somewhat easily if you wanted to move it. Zhori would have loved it because with one loom she could support herself and her children. 

(4/5) (these are getting long sorry). Also, warp weighted looms need warp weights, which are either stone or clay doughnuts, that could be intricately patterned. In a slightly sadder headcannon, Dori is only able to keep a few of his mother’s shuttles and her weaving sword, because he has to sell her loom and remaining stock to keep himself and his brothers fed in a bad winter. Dori eventually uses a horizontal loom himself, but he uses Zhori’s shuttles and weaving sword on it. To remember her. 

(5/5) Sorry for the inbox flood, I just have many feelings in regards to weaving, and Sansukh, so this was a chance to combine two of my passions. One quick last thing, tablet weaving (basically it’s pieces of cardboard/other similar material used as the heddles where you turn them to open the shed for weaving) is something Zhori taught Dori to do when he was little and she was pregnant with Nori. It’s something small, teaches him the beginnings of weaving, and keeps him out of trouble.

NEVER BE SORRY. EVER. FOR THIS. SHEER. GLORY.

I had to go look all of these things up, you are simply incredible and this sent me down a wonderful winding path to a world I’d never even seen before, oh my GOD

Amazing, the world is amazing, these headcanons are AMAZING,  and you are amazing holy heck

Horizontal loom

image
image

Warp weighted loom

image
image

Tablet Weaving (this looks so EFFING ADORABLE)

image

(this is a little tablet-weaving loom made of copper HOW CUTE IS IT, HOW EASILY CAN I SEE DORI USING IT oh my GOD)

I am so so SO on board with all of this, I can’t thank you enough. THANK YOU. THANK YOU.