Sorry if this has been said before, but imagine Gimli working on the Glittering Caves. Right next to the great many Dunlending POWs conscripted into rebuilding the Hornburg. Imagine him getting to know some of them pretty well and becoming sympathetic to their grievances about being colonized by the Rohirrim, and using his influence to support their cause in getting Rohan to give them rights and lands, a line of thought already opened up by Theoden’s promise to the Druedain and Ghan-Buri-Ghan.

*YODELS IN RAPTURE*

GOD YES

YES YES YES ALL OF THIS

*wraps self in post and cries tears of joy*

I can’t stop thinking about Mizim & Gimris secretly having a bed commissioned that’s big enough for Gimli and Legolas to sleep in without the latter having to fold himself up like a swiss army knife, and then when Laerophen’s out and about in Erebor one day he feels a tug on the back of his tunic and he turns around expecting Gimizh but it’s two grown Dwarves with a sliderule and a notebook and they’re like ‘ere mister, do us a favour and lie down a minute would ya (he’s confused but he does it)

OH MY GOD ROFLMAAAAAAAO

I hope you don’t mind that I publish this, because it is SHEER. GENIUS.

Mrs. Dets, can you tell us if Thira is alright?? After what happened at Dain’s grave I wanted nothing more than to hug her and I hope that her son, Mizim or Dis did exactly that ;-;

Hi there Nonnie!

She’s staying with Dis, at the moment. She’s okay. She isn’t coming out a lot, after what happened. Her son and Bomfris come over each morning for a cup of tea and a slice of cake. Mizim has been cooking for them both.

Genild and Beri have also been keeping an eye on her – Genild has known her a long time, from the Iron Hills. Now and then Dori drops by when his busy schedule allows.

She will be all right – she’s iron all through, our Thira – but she’s had a very rough few months.

Thank you for the dwarrowdam post. Just it made me feel pretty and I’m crying but it’s good crying and thank you.

*hugs very very very tight* you are absolutely gorgeous, disregard the liars who say otherwise. and you are absolutely welcome, Nonnie. *hugs you some more*

Thorin with his regrown beard long enough to tuck into his belt!

hee you’ve hit the nail on the head!

so dwarves can be poly right?

well, I think they can. (tolkien would definitely disagree with me tho)

what Prof T says is: Dwarves fall in love once, and if it isn’t reciprocated they devote their lives to their crafts.

What Prof T doesn’t say: Whether they fall in love with one person at a time. Fall in love once – okay, gotcha – but nothing says that love must be for one individual alone. 🙂

So I noticed that Thrain still only has one eye in the Halls. Does he feel about it like Dain and his foot?

Pretty much! I went with movie-canon over book-canon for Thrain’s eye (again, lmao, I jump back and forth like a frog on a hot rock).

In the book, he loses it at Azanulbizar.

In the movie, we see that it is gone before the fall of Erebor.

A lot of Thrain’s initial character motivation comes from trying to be as he was before he hared off all alone to recapture Erebor… and fell into the clutches of the Necromancer. So he appears much as he was in Erebor, at the height of its glory and power. He tries to behave that way, too.

(also I love Thrain and I love how badass his forehead and eye-tatts are)

“They remember my brother and sister, the Blue Wizards” YOU MADE ONE OF THE WIZARDS A WOMAN TOO?? Goddamn, Dets, I love you!

I DID I DID!

😀

Aelir sailed to the West didn’t she? She didn’t die or fade. Gimli and Legolas also sail West, after Gimli’s beard turns silver and their friends have passed. Does that mean that Gimli and Aelir get to meet?

Yep, Aelir sailed! Thranduil insisted, though it broke both their hearts. She is in Valinor – in Tirion, to be exact – and she is alive.

;)))

“No, Frerin. You cannot tease them for reminding Gimli of Hobbits or vice-versa. Or I shall tell them about the incident with the cheese and the bedclothes and the crown and Father’s beard.” “Killjoy,” Frerin muttered. ..what happened

oooooh, lmao naughty Dwarf children playing pretend. Thorin was dressed as his grandfather, and he had pilfered Thror’s crown (!!!) and was wearing a coverlet as a cape. There was cheese involved (it was the Arkenstone). Dis-the-baby was standing in for Hrera with a rattle for a sceptre. Her scowl was on-point.

Frerin was to be Thrain, and he was doing his very best to draw the scar over his eye in ink. He couldn’t quite get it right, and so he used his sleeping father as a model. Thrain is tall, and Frerin couldn’t see properly, so he clambered up onto the settee to see better.

He was carrying the ‘Arkenstone’.

He fell. Thorin tried to catch him. He tripped on his ‘cape’.

Ink and cheese everywhere – over everyone, but most especially on Thrain. The crown ended up with cheese all over it. It was a memorable awakening.

Dis was the only one who emerged unscathed. Fris walked in at precisely that moment, took one look, and walked straight back out.

Thrain’s beard was blue for a good time afterwards, and it took a while for the smell of goat cheese to fade.