[Part 1]
(Based on this post.) Finally, the conclusion! More sappy pining Gimlas, family quarrels plus the happy ending! (Also a little Bagginshield mention snuck its way in there, whoops~)
Khuzdul translations are at the end. (My Neo-Khuzdul is worse than my Sindarin, so if anyone out there is familiar with The Dwarrow Scholar’s Neo-Khuzdul and has corrections, pleasepleaseplease let me know!)
This
was, without doubt, the stupidest thing Gimli had ever done. And as a
reckless, hot-headed dwarfling, he had done a lot
of stupid things. Falling in love with an elf, with the son
of Thranduil was still the
crowning achievement in any competition of completely foolhardy
decisions. Not that he’d really planned on it. By the time he’d
noticed, it had been far, far too late to stop himself.
Still,
he had no desire to be mocked, or worse, gently and sorrowfully
spurned, so he decided to keep his great trap shut. Which was easier
said than done, because every time the elf looked at him, smiled at
him, called him that strange sweet-sounding elven word, the truth
tried desperately to tumble from his lips, and it was all he could do
to bite it back. It got a little easier, if he was honest, when he
started calling Legolas his greatest treasure. Of course, the elf had
no idea what it meant, so it was safe, even if he knew any dwarf
would pluck his beard out one hair at a time if they knew.
Which
was why he was resolved not to call Legolas that while they were
staying together in Erebor. King Thorin Stonehelm had welcomed Legolas with
more grace than Thranduil had managed at the beginning, but that was
damning with faint praise, and Legolas got an equally frosty
reception from Gimli’s family. Glóin remembered Legolas’s slight
against his wife and son, and Gimli’s mother and sister were wary
and mistrustful.
So
it was a tense household, but at least Mizim made every attempt to be
civil. She was not one to abandon manners for hurt pride, especially
not over something that happened so long ago, and when Legolas was
equally courteous back, she began to warm to him. Just a little. It
lifted Gimli’s heart to see it. It made him incautious.
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