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Wee Thorin has to do a family tree for school and it is full of pain and angst when he has to ask his parents about it. Also very awkward. The accompanying drawings of the extended family are like 35% guesswork even after Wee Thorin asks every relative he has because the most of older people died so very long ago.

OW

OW OW OW OW

Oh OW

Dwalin can fill in some of it. Gloin tries as well. It’s a good thing that old tapestry is still knocking about… but Dweris’ family is a mystery lost to time and war, and the only thing that is remembered about Farin’s spouse Ganois is that they were a painter. The tree is missing so many of its branches. 

(For the record, Dweris’ mum was named Gweris, and she was a swordsmith. Her father was Delor, a fletcher – but no records about them survived. Not one.)

oh, and Orla will not speak of her family bc GIANT SPOILERS

Mizim makes cupcakes with the Trouble Troupe and lets them decorate two each. Wee Thorin’s look nice enough, a solid effort. Balinith’s are Very Precise and show good line use. Gimizh is all “how much icing can this cupcake support?” Frerinith ate a bunch of icing and put something that vaguely resembles smily faces on his cupcakes.

pfffft sounds like a recipe for total disaster. 

Gimizh would have gotten into a fight in under two minutes over hogging the icing bag, no doubt (he would have kept piping it into his mouth, the little grotty thing)

Courtesy of the Gimizh & co., Gimli and the remainder of the company send a package to Bilbo and the hobbits of the Fellowship. In it? A set of fake beards and mustaches for them, all in the correct colors, made by Dori, Dis, and even one made by Wee Thorin, since, “They don’t got no hair on their faces at all!” Merry and Pippin often wear theirs, especially when they finally *visit* Erebor. Bilbo and Frodo’s *might* make their across the sea with them.

Sam: “Well, look at me, Mister Frodo! Why, I could be as Stoorish as a Breelander!” It gets Frodo to smile. That means it’s worth its weight in gold, as far as Sam’s concerned. 

(Tiny little Elanor finds it one day. She looks HYSTERICALLY FUNNY in it.)

Merry & Pippin: *die of laughter, use them to prank each other and everybody else*

Frodo: sends a very polite ‘thank you’ letter… and never wears it.

Bilbo: secretly tries it on in the mirror when nobody else is watching, checks himself from all angles, preens and prances about a bit and chuckles and uses all the Dwarvish swear-words he remembers… and then grows quiet, letting the funny beard fall to his knees and sighing. 

Imagine … the Trouble Troupe helping Dori cook. Balinith is measuring Very Carefully. Gimizh is a mess, flour everywhere, all sticky. Wee Thorin is happily helping. Frerinith has abandoned cooking for snacking on the fruit/jam/sweets.

Wee Thorin would probably be trying to pry Gimizh out of whatever it is that he’s stuck in, lmao. And Frerinith would be ‘telling’ everyone what to do, very importantly, while Balinith cheerfully ignores him and Dori tries to turn a blind eye to the CHAOS

Imagine itty Wee Thorin, tied into his high charge, all chub a cheeks and baby-hair Mohawk. Scowling away as he sucks at his sippy cup. Going -grumble grumble- I hate baby shoes in his head, trying desperately to get them off. And Dwalinuls is always trying to get the shoes on. They were a present from Dori or Dis, and are tiny knitted cute things.

HAAAAAAAAHAHAHA

I am imagining Wee Thorin doing the ‘I HATE HATS’ thing, as well… so many older babies/toddlers go through a stage of ‘GETTIT OFF MEEEEEEEE’ lmaaaaao

Dori keeps doggedly knitting things, nevertheless. He’s not about to be defeated by someone less than 1 foot tall!!

All of the Dwalinuls take a bit after Dori? Wee Thorin is all sharp objects and knitting. Balinith is all For Science! And nice clothes and tea. Frerinith is fussy and also tea.

YES THEY DO, ALL OF THEM – thank you so much, I am so HAPPY you noticed, Nonnie! I have given all of the kids some of Dori’s influence, because I think he would have been very close to them all. Most trusted babysitter, honorary uncle, etc. So they’ve all got some characteristics and traits that stem from that proximity… all except Gimizh. 

Wee Thorin is protective LIKE WHOA. Also knitting. And sighing.

Balinith is orderly, tidy and also SCIENCE, but he’s got a streak of sarcasm in him a mile wide. Sly insults ftw. 

And tiny Frerinith is A FUSSY CUTIE PIE BOSSY-BOOTS 😀

(Alas, Gimizh has a hefty dose of Nori as well as Bofur, Gimris and Gimli in his character… which is probably makes Dori both sad and fond simultaneously.)

When I wrote that line about ‘Dori mothers the whole mountain in the absence of his brothers’, I totally, TOTALLY meant it with bells on and a cherry on top… also hello once more, my love of extreme character detail, there you are again