Tag: nori

I have a question. My headcanon for Dori has always been that he is ace, and either aromantic or demiromantic, which I was really glad to see in Sansukh, but I also have another headcanon for him. That Nori disappeared for awhile after their mother died and so Dori, alone, broke, and with baby Ori to take care of, had to turn to prostitution to make sure Ori had a roof over his head and such. Do you think that’s possible, or…?

Hey Nonnie!

Anything’s possible! I’m not using that particular idea in Sansukh (it’d be an entire fic in itself!!), but it’s a heartbreaking and interesting headcanon!

although we are totally spoilt for choice, i must say that one of my favourite ever lines is Ori’s “you mean he knows?” in Ch9. ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS. ALWAYS MAKES ME CACKLE. I just love how you manage to encapsulate so much in a single sentence. To me it just represents the thorough lack of subtlety all round from start till end from basically everyone re bagginshield: the exasperation, the incredulity, how everybody knew except, naturally, thorin, and how much headdesking must have occurred.

SO much headdesking. SO MUCH. Every desk ever, covered in little dints from the repeated impacts of twelve Dwarven foreheads. 

I mean, the Bagginshield in Sansukh was eventually an open secret to just about everyone – except the main players. 

Ha, yeah! TOTALLY unsubtle, Ori. But to be fair, Ori was totally incredulous that – really? Finally really truly? Has he actually figured it out, can we stop not-saying the bleeding obvious now?

Bofur was still a bit steamed about it all, even two years later. Gloin found it all inexpressibly sad. 

(Actually – during the Quest, Gloin became very good at surreptitiously stepping on Oin’s foot at appropriate moments. Oin isn’t the most diplomatic of Dwarves, and he was on the verge of just barking it out at least twice a day. What? Not like he would have had to listen to the fallout. Ear trumpet busted. You know.)

It’s the only bet that Nori never collected on. He’s STILL a bit salty over it. 

speaking of partying in mahal’s halls, i wonder if you have any thoughts to share about what happens to dwarrows from, say, rival clans or who have feuds when they get there? or maybe not even on such a big scale, but perhaps just dwarves who haven’t been each other’s biggest fans in life, or who for some reason or another don’t really want to spend time in each other’s company, ymris them etc? are there corners of the halls they can expand into or seclude themselves in? is everything communal?

balinisballin:

aviva0017:

determamfidd:

Ahhhh, no actually! I have answered this somewhere, but no – not everything is communal. The Halls expand, and expand, and expand. There are private kitchens, family kitchens, small living quarters and large ones. There are communal forges and singular ones, depending on the nature of the Dwarf in question.

Yes, there are Dwarves who bear grudges! But life in the Halls is not true life, unfortunately – everyone is held in this holding pattern, and change is TREMENDOUSLY hard to implement. Ori and Bifur have spent eighty years growing closer, and it is only now that they are moving towards a more intimate relationship. Frerin and Fili and lived side-by-side for equally as long, and only now is Fili beginning to understand his younger uncle and to take him under his wing. Thorin has spent all this time in self-recrimination and doubt and guilt, and he is finally moving past it. 

Those Dwarves with serious grudges against one another (oh hi there, Nori’s ‘business associates’) would be fighting that soporific, cold, timeless and endless feeling that pervades the Halls. They are beautiful, but they are not a place of life. 

Oh god the list of people in the Halls that Nori is actively avoiding has got to be long indeed XD

this makes me a bit sad, tho the thought of noris business associates~ is hilarious indeed

This is exactly why he is trying to needle, trick, flatter, bribe or inveigle Thrain (he of the impressive scowl and fearsome beard and super-high status) into his dealings 😀

do you happen to know the origin of the trope where the ‘Ri family is a bunch of solid gold hotties? it’s one of my favorites, and you’re one of the only tolkien fandom blogs I follow! just wondering if you knew(/if you like it too!)?

I sure do!

I have NO idea where that trope came from, but I like it a lot. My particular headcanon is that of the three brothers, Dori is in fact the blinding beauty. 

(it might have arisen from the fact that Dori’s build, facial features and costume are the most stereotypically ‘fantasy Dwarvish’, possibly)