a mother hen but I don’t have a clear image of exactly how he will react? (Also I can’t believe I didn’t realize you were the one who wrote From One Age to Another, which is the fic that got me shipping Gimli and Legolas in the first place, sooner)

Awwwww, thank you so much! I am still superly duperly fond of my first Gigolas one-shot, I am very happy you enjoyed it! FUCK YEAH GIGOLAS.

Weeeelll, yep, Dori is totally a mother-hen. I don’t like portraying him as controlling or dictatorial, though. So: expect fussing, but not threatening behaviour or forbidding Ori to see Bifur, or any of that sort of thing. 🙂

chess-ka:

Some dwarf cuddles from determamfidd‘s Sansûkh-verse.

I read a hugging headcanon that described Ori as “your personal koala” and I am pretty sure that is 100% accurate. Except here he’s just Bifur’s personal koala, so back off.

You know things are getting serious with Bofur and Gimris cos Bofur’s not got his hat on. Bom-chikka-wow. (I enjoyed drawing Gimris’s hair).

Even Badass Warriors get tired, especially when they have a newborn baby. Would Orla and Dwalin own cushions? I have no idea. ~~Still not really settled on a mental image for Orla sorry Orla.~~

if you heard a minor explosion somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere – yeaaaaah, that was me.

I LOVE THEM I LOVE YOU

Oh my GOSHHHSHHH how adorable are Bifur and Ori, just so warm and comfortable and YES Ori the Koala, and Bofur and Gimris YOU LOVELY DORKS ohhhh they look so happy, they just laugh all the time, and lajshdflajshfdlaj Dwalin and Orla i know that feel, catching a snuggle while the baby is FINALLY sleeping and OH

CHESS I AM IN AWE THANK YOU THANK YOU

Sad thought of the day: For years after Nori died, Dori would absentmindedly cuss him out whenever a small item went missing around his house or workshop, and then wilt a little inside when he realized that Nori couldn’t have taken it to make Dori mad.

NONNIE HAVE I DONE SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU MAD

WHY DO YOU HURT ME THIS WAY

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)

dain-mothafocka:

On Chapter 13 of Sansukh

Important emotional moment between Balin and Thorin and then

Ori

“Well, there I am,” he said. “Don’t I make a good skeleton?”

determamfidd

I said I would take an unimpressed selfie everythugj=gjgng this happened im not impressed by uu.

You’re cute when you’re unimpressed 😀

Could you tell us about first kisses in Sansukh (except for the ones, of course, that will make it into the fic!) Dwalin/Orla? Thrain/Fris? Bifur/Ori? Dain/Thira? First kisses are my weakness, and Bofur and Gimris’s was so perfect! Keep on the awesome!

HERE WE GO NONNIE, I WROTE SOME SMOOCHINS.

Nanammâ

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