Tag: nori

What do you think Nori’s craft is? Does he have one (if “petty theft” doesn’t count)? Is he actually really amazing at knitting and crochet but keeps it to himself? Is he an expert cocktail maker? (I spend a lot of time wondering what Nori even DOES with his time.)

Actually? I think that Nori’s talent is in fact, grifting, travel and confidence trickery. And I don’t think he has ever stopped.

We know from Jed Brophy that before the Hobbit he has been ‘out of Dwarven society’ for quite a while. In Sansukh, after BOTFA, his travelling days are done, so he can’t indulge himself in his favourite pastime quite so readily – certainly he can’t escape his schemes as easily as he used to! 

After his death, his main hobby is running a book on any and every event that happens in Arda (for shits and giggles, mostly – what is money in the Halls of the Dead? It’s a way of keeping score, basically). 

Fris totally sings dirty (generally, not necessarily sexy) songs to make Thrain smile. Thorin practically steams at the ears when he finds out about this. Nori shark-smiles, and totally gets into a dirty-song competition, which he then proceeds to lose. Ungratefully.

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idk, I think Nori would probably win, myself!

(But lbr here, Bofur would beat them both, snrk)

And yeah, Thorin would be very dismayed to find his sweet, kind, clever little mother singing every word to the bar-room classic ‘Swinging the Pick’ with Nori. AMAD WHAT. 

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Dori totally goes on an agressive mothering spree in his first few months in the Halls. Nori and Ori (and pretty soon, Bifur) are awash in new clothes and knitwear. Their hair is braided. They are fed massive amounts of food. Dori meets Bifur’s mom and makes an especial cause of feeding her.

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Bomris and Dori. Dori and Bomris. 

BOMRIS AND DORI.

He’d be so gentle. She’d be so gentle. THEY’D BE SO GENTLE. 

Okay so I already have a lot of feelings about Dori meeting his brothers again in the Halls, but what about his mother? Dori apologizing to her over and over for not protecting his brothers well enough, and Zhori hugging him tight and telling him that’s nonsense, that she’s grateful that he worked so hard to keep the family together for so long after she was gone. Dori breaking down crying, because he’s had to BE the oldest and the parent for so long that he’s forgotten how it felt to HAVE one.

SLOW DOWN THERE SATAN