omfg it’s so cute I’m gonna melt
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omfg it’s so cute I’m gonna melt
lasgdfljasgfaksjdalsdhgkjshgadfakjshfdgaksjhfda NONNIE

Awwwwww.
“Oh, it tastes just as I remember! Thank you, Bombur!”
*ducking head* “Welcome.”
“You’re welcome to keep the recipe, if you’d like. For doing us such a great favour.”
“Oh no, couldn’t possibly! That’s your family’s history, that is! I wouldn’t presume, Mahal forbid.“
“But then… how were you able to re-create it so perfectly?”
“Tried not to look too long at the book? Also, Bofur’s been pouring ale into me since sundown.”
(heh, I have no leg to stand on when it comes to angst, Nonnie!)
Stonehelm (very quickly): THIS IS CUPCAKE, SHE’S REALLY GENTLE AND SWEET AND IT’LL BE A REALLY EASY RIDE, WE’LL GO REALLY SLOWLY AND YOU’LL LIKE IT BOMFRIS, PLEASE, SHE’S SO CUTE AND REALLY GOOD-NATURED AND I PROMISE IT’LL BE FUN
Tuac: You’re seriously not going up on that thing, are you? It’s obviously part-walrus.
Bomfris: Is that A CHALLENGE
*patpat* Oh, Thrandy. He’s tremendously closed-off, the way I write him. Proud, protective, solitary – and yes, very hurt.
But please remember too, Nonnie, that events have been intruding upon his cold solitude in a big way lately, thanks to this stupid war. He has discovered, once again, that he is still a part of the world… not only a part, but a powerful part. He can be an active force for good… if he can put aside old disputes.
(And he’s about to discover a truly shocking bit of news… one that might just jolt him out of his long, icy contemplation of his past pain and hurtle him straight into the present moment.)

Awwww, he would! He definitely would, Nonnie. And he writes the dates on the spines very carefully, and every now and then when someone says something a little odd, he’ll frown and hold up a finger. Wait.
Then he’ll cross the room, tugging out his reading glasses, his white hair edging towards his old red in the candlelight. That finger will slide over the spines, and he’ll select one, ever so delicately. And turn a few pages.
Then he’ll make a noise in his throat like a satisfied bear, before looking up and taking off his glasses. Grim vindication all over his face. “Thought so. You’re a damn liar. Get out o’ my office before I kick you out.”
*whimpers*

OH GOD OH NONNIE
look, just. here you go.

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(the ones from Thorin and Dis for the lads, though… Dis would find them after, and know that they were never meant for her. She would keep Vili’s as well, stained and rumpled from so many years of being crushed in the bottom of one of Fili’s drawers. She would have so many of these letters, all addressed to someone else.
Nobody would have expected her to outlive her children, after all.)
I actually already have Gimli writing a pile of these in Sansukh – he hands them to Gloin when they say farewell at Rivendell. One for Dis, one for the King, one for Gimris and Bofur, one for Gimizh. And one for his parents, of course.
Gloin and Dwalin definitely would have written lots of just-in-case letters because of losing their parents at Azanulbizar… in fact, I believe Gloin would probably have written a novel (he’s a very organised Dwarf, is Gloin). Dwalin’s would be softer, though… and full of all the things he doesn’t say aloud.
THIS IS A V CUTE HEADCANON NONNIE
BUT
IS IT BAD THAT ALL I CAN SEE IS THIS SCENE FROM LIFE OF BRIAN
