
This is the sort of (mechanical) bird that I imagined that the dwarves would make 🙂 Made of gold and porcelain with shards of rubies and sapphires! And of course it would have fully functioning joints 😉

This is the sort of (mechanical) bird that I imagined that the dwarves would make 🙂 Made of gold and porcelain with shards of rubies and sapphires! And of course it would have fully functioning joints 😉


I am so late for @determamfidd‘s birthday that in an attempt to make up for it, I am attaching, along with all the love and hugs, an (albeit very rough and sketchy for lack of time) illustrated version of my Thorin-Stonehelm-pouts-in-his-sleep headcanon, since I remember her saying she’d totally want to draw it.
Belated happy birthday, Dets! Hope you have a lovely year ahead ^_^
OH MY GOODNESS OH MY GOD OH MY WOW
klasgdjflhasgfkajgfa RIPPY THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
He’s lovely! GOD I love your details – the lines on the hands, the fingerless gloves, the plaits, wrinkles on the clothes, I LOVE THE WAY YOU DRAW HIS HAIR AHHH MOHAWK MOHAWK (but with the Oakenshield-inspired braids bc he’s such a goober and has an idol problem <3) AND OH MY GOD THAT POUT…!
Thank you, amazing Rippy – thank you thank THANK THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH! *tackles and hugs*
AWWWWW, that’s very sweet!
LMAOOOOO
“Don’t fight it, lad, is my advice. There’s no winning against them, and it’s already done.
P.S. You’d better be getting enough to eat.”
Oooooh.
It would have been hard for him. Not just the journey (he’s a VERY elderly hobbit, after all) but.
Looking at certain places, certain areas in the Mountain. Of course, many things would have been VASTLY different, all that time… but different enough not to prick and prod at those memories? I don’t know…
Still, he would have been delighted to see and spend time with his old friends, all together at last.
There would have been some… very obvious vacancies.
(Silence is sucked into those gaps around the table, sinking heavier into the pauses where another is expected to take up the tale, or to shout their indignation… but they’re not there. They’re not there, and there’s a gap, a breath, and the silence sinks into it a little deeper every time.)
Imagine, all of them spending time together, and then maybe one of the Dwarves mentions something, or perhaps Bilbo begins a particular story… only for the words to trip and stutter to a halt upon a particular name. Balin. Oin. Ori. Fili. Kili.
Tho-
Are you all right, lad? You’ve gone quite pale.
You’re one to talk, your beard’s turned whiter than my hair. And I’m perfectly all right. Just a momentary catch in the throat.
OOOOH YEEEEEOUCH, that is particularly heart-zapping, Nonnie…!
Thorin kills Azog the Defiler, but at the cost of his life. His nephews mourn, as Fili, blinded in one eye from his brush with death on Ravenhill, is crowned King Under the Mountain. He will see Erebor restored, and while some grumble at his freeness with the wealth of the mountain in aiding others, none will ever say that he might fall to gold sickness. Erebor will know peace, under him.
Meanwhile, Bard the Bowman heroically have his life fighting to save the people of Laketown, now Dale. Queen Sigrid is crowned, the eldest heir of Girion, and the daughter of the Dragonslayer. She is firm, and crafty, and any who doubt her soon gain a strong respect for her caring heart and quick mind. She is grieving for her father, and trying her best to raise her siblings after tragedy; but she is strong.
The Elvenking fought like a hurricane, but was overwhelmed by a swarm of orcs as he was thrown from his mount. His body was found hours after the battle, in a circle of mutilated orcs. His son, who has never been the type for politics, puts aside his joy in patrolling with the guard and takes up his father’s crown. Legolas Thranduilion is perhaps not the best of kings, but he is kind, well-liked, and will not lead his people astray
YOU ASKED FOR THIS
Dets’ reaction: I DID, I DID ASK FOR THIS

augh yessss THE DELICIOUS DEVASTATION
AUGH *eats up the lovely, lovely angst alongside her cake* I LOVE ITTTT
HAAAAAAAAHAHAHA
I am imagining Wee Thorin doing the ‘I HATE HATS’ thing, as well… so many older babies/toddlers go through a stage of ‘GETTIT OFF MEEEEEEEE’ lmaaaaao
Dori keeps doggedly knitting things, nevertheless. He’s not about to be defeated by someone less than 1 foot tall!!