In the same vein of Dori’s similarities to Mrs Weasley, I’m imagining Nori and Ori watching him harangue the other dwarves whilst preparing for the siege and just rolling their eyes. “The idiots are letting him get into his stride. You need to head him off early or he just builds up this head of steam and rants for hours… look, they can’t even dodge the hanky. Useless lot.”

HAHAHA – oh, what about Ori and Nori marking each Dwarf out of ten for Dori-management?

“Eight out of ten, not bad. Brought out the tea and everything. Lost points for arguing. Waste o’ time, that.”

“Oh, what a colossal twit. Three out of ten. Tried to pick him up. And stared at his bottom. Absolutely deserved that punch – and the fussing afterwards.”

kazimakuwabara:

Chapter 36-rescuing frodo from the tower/honorary dwarf

I can never draw kili. Ever. I’m so sorry kili ;3; I love the scene in chapter 36 of Nori, Kili, and Fili following along as sam goes to save his mister frodo.;3;

chapters 35-36 are easily my favorite chapters right now.

kjshgdfkajsdgfak IT IS GORGEOUS SO GORGEOUS! THANK YOU! 

Omg Sam’s furious little face!! I wanna squish his cheeks! LOL, KILI!

Nori probably writhes in curtailed lightfingered-ness whenever he gets too close to Dori’s glasses. And Dori probably acquires waaaay to many of small valuable items like the glasses, hairpins, etc (like, what he needs, spares, and then spare spares) because he was so used to Nori making off with them. And now he’s just like “oh :(“.

SIDE-SWIPED WITH UNEXPECTED RI BROS FEELS.

Oh, Dori. *hugs him* I just.

I can imagine Dori at market, buying up hair-pins and ties, and he absently collects a handful of the longer brown pins…

And gets home, and unpacks his purchases.

And presses his lips together. Hard.

(And puts the pins in the drawer with the others that he has bought over the years, on automatic, without thinking about it. The drawer is nearly full now.)

Hi Dets! I was just curious about something – have either Nori or Ori run into their dads in the Halls? Or would they want to?

Okay, I’m gonna post the blurb so I can refresh people’s memories, hahaha!

Meet a Dwarrowdam – Zhori daughter of Yori

Zhori was a middle-class weaver, descended in direct line
through her mothers from the famously controversial concubine of the 25th
century of the Third Age, Ymrís. This was a matter of shame for the family, who
did their best to keep the matter hushed up. Zhori was very beautiful, with
soft brown hair that silvered early in her life, a full and luxurious beard, and
a stout and sturdy frame. She was reasonably well-to-do, comfortably set up,
and her beauty attracted many admirers. However, Zhori, a life-long romantic at
heart, was unfortunately terribly unlucky in love. She spent her whole life
searching. Her first husband, a handsome young miner, had married her dutifully
when she fell pregnant. But he then fell in love with another Dwarrowdam and
left Zhori soon after the birth of their son, Dori. They remained in touch, and
she held no ill-will towards him. Zhori remained alone for fifty years before
she tried her hand at love again. Her second husband was a dashing rogue and a
charmer, and he was killed in a game of chance while Zhori was pregnant with
her second son, Nori. Late in her life she was surprised by the advances of a
fellow weaver, and her third son, Ori, was conceived out of wedlock. Her sons
were fiercely protective of their mother, and they habitually referred
to themselves as the ‘sons of Zhori’. She was one of the few Dwarrows to die of
old age in the turmoil of the past two centuries, passing away peacefully in
her sleep in Ered Luin.


And now to your question, Nonnie! Actually – yes.

Ori was surprised to discover that he looks remarkably like his dad. They aren’t exactly close, but they are friends. Roi is a gentle, dreamy-eyed sort of Dwarf who likes his weaving and his sketching and his pipe, and is bemusedly proud of his rather famous son. He remains close to Zhori, too, and is still very much in love with her.

Nori immediately picked his father’s pocket, sad to say. They have a prickly biting sort of relationship. Nori isn’t quite ready to forgive the feckless, dashing Nevi for getting himself killed and leaving Zhori alone again… particularly because it appears that Nori is more like Nevi than he would care to admit. They routinely snark and aim little barbed remarks at each other. When that doesn’t quite satisfy, there’s always petty theft 🙂

Dori’s dad is there too. They don’t talk to him much, though they’ve noted that 

Dánin has the same splendid ears as Dori. Zhori holds no ill-will to her first husband, though her sons aren’t nearly so charitable towards the Dwarf who left her when Dori was only a baby. Even Ori gets rather pugnacious. 

do you have all the dwarves’ ages, and how you translate them to human years (in your own canon, i mean)? in your (wonderful, WONDERFUL) fic it’s mentioned how young poor ori is when he dies, is he in the dwarf equivalent of his twenties? thirties? what about the others (sorry if this is asking a bit much, i’m just very curious now!)

Ah, there’s a fair bit of argy-bargy about this! I’d welcome any comments. 

There’s not much in canon to go on, comparitive ages-wise. I’ve blabbed about how I am translating Dwarven ages in Sansukh here and here and here. Basically, I am going with the idea that Dwarves ‘come of age’ at 70, though they may reach physical maturity much earlier. 

Ori was around 127 (from memory?) when he died in Sansukh. He’s not a little Dwarfling any more – he’s most definitely an adult, in the prime of his years. But try telling Nori that!

(For comparison, during the Ring War, Gimli is 139.)

These things about Nori are KILLING ME OH GOD He’s one of my very favorites, I love Nori so much (in fact I am a giant Nwalin shipper so I keep having to resolutely remind myself while reading that that’s just-not gonna happen in this fic. But you made me love Orla and the little ones so much, I don’t even mind. Still sometimes I wish they could interact just once or – be friends or sth but NO Dwalin LIVES FOREVER) anyway, ‘NORI!!’ is what i basically wanted to express&thx for Sansukh, it’s rad!

Awww, thank you Nonnie! I’m thrilled you’re enjoying it – and hey, Nori IS safe now. He’ll learn to trust eventually. Ori is there, Ori will help him. Ri Brothers stick together. 

(Yeah, I have quite a few people making ლ(ಠ_ಠლ) faces at me for not including particular ships. Sorry! But I am very glad you love Orla and the sprogs!)