#dwarven headcannons

[bugstuff4ever]

headcannon that gimli flirts with legolas through how he touches him while they ride arod.

-when they first get on the horse, gimli (uncomfy) loops his fingers through lego’s belt loops and that’s IT! nooooo unnecessary touching! yikes!

-then they’re riding through rohan and they’re TIRED but legolas still takes the time to check on gimli and tease him while they ride,,,and it’s kinda hot? so gimli holds the elf’s hips while they ride. feels good for both of em. lego notices the change immediately and he loves it.

-next they’re reuniting with the wizard and merrypippin and riding to war and everythinghappenssomuch. gimli and lego are caught up in the chaos and lean on each other heavy to keep grounded. the rest of the fellowship notices how they’re always whispering/finding a way to touch each other. gandalfs like WE’RE AT WAR THERES NO TIME FOR FLIRTING but they just laugh. the fellowship’s suspicions are confirmed when they mount their steeds and see gimli fully pressed up against legolas with his arms wrapped completely around the elven torso, with lego leaning back into the hold. despite the circumstances, they are smiling :)

-by the time they ride for the black gate, they are head over heels OBSESSED with each other. if they aren’t married the elven way yet, they will be soon. the tension…..is high. gimli pets legolas while they ride, lego turns around to kiss the dwarf whenever they slow down, and no one wants to know what devilish things gimli’s whispering to cause the elven ears to flush such a deep crimson. everyone is surprised that arod hasn’t bucked them off with the sheer amount of PDA happening on his back. disgusting.

-when it’s all over and they finally get married the dwarven way (official ceremony and all that), arod is the ring bearer. bless that horsey!

[verkomy]

How do you or would you headcannon Bilbo and Thorin accidentally proposing or getting engaged and how would they proceed when they find out or the other accepts the proposal?

I love braiding hair as a symbol of affection, so I think of Bilbo wanting to learn how to braid hair during the journey and asking the company to teach him how to do it, but they’d all send him to Thorin for some reason. And after the hug on the Carrock he would finally work up the courage (while they were staying at Beorn's house) to ask him and Thorin would be absolutely smitten, he would teach him how to do it and let Bilbo braid his hair, but he wouldn't tell him what that really meant in dwarven culture out of fear of being rejected.

And I love the idea of them starting their courtship in Lake Town (wearing each others colors, etc.), so maybe they'd finally get to talk and Thorin would finally admit what the braid really means and ask Bilbo if he could braid his hair and Bilbo’d say yes.

AND the acorn scene when Bilbo says "Thorin, I…" I'm sure he was going to confess his love to Thorin and you can't change my mind.

[trianna-phoenix]

i really like the way you draw bilbo. i haven't finished reading the hobbit, so i was wondering if you have a reason for giving him a little braid, if its in the novels or if you came up with the idea? and if the latter is true, are you okay with other people drawing him that way as well? :)

Wow I’m so sorry it took me so long to respond but yes! There is a reason, it’s not my own original idea but it’s a rather popular headcannon that in dwarven culture, since they’re so hair centric, that a courting bead is used to show off someone’s marriage status. So the little braid and bead I draw bilbo with is to symbolize his marriage with thorin!

Thank you for asking, sorry I don’t go through my inbox often 😓

[solbringer]

Do you have a favorite headcannon for cultural differences between Hobbits and Dwarves? I love cultural differences for the Hobbit and am always down to hear others opinions on what those might be.

*Asks are sent for fun, no pressure to answer within a certain amount of time or at all.

I read a fic once talking about beauty standard differences that really hit home for me, everyone thinking bilbo's gorgeous and him having to work around miscommunication because the things they point out are not things he sees as beautiful. Ow my heart!!!

Another thing i am particularly obsessed with is looking into dwarven craftsmanship and guilds compared to hobbit craftsmanship.... i eat it up every time!

[thelien-art]

ohh, I just saw requests are open! could you do Celebrimbor/Maeglin? <3

~ maglor-my-beloved

Just for you @maglor-my-beloved and everyone else who likes it

Celebrimbor has dwarven tattoos

headcannon for Avarin hair

[thorinarmitaged]

How do you or would you headcannon Bilbo and Thorin accidentally proposing or getting engaged and how would they proceed when they find out or the other accepts the proposal?

Oh wow thanks for the question, since I have been a bit absent in the Bagginshield ship it took me a while to think it through.

But the accidental proposing of course would be some cultural misconception as in hobbittish culture one thing would mean proposing in dwarwish that thing would be a trivial or thing of no consequence and in reverse.

"Plant your trees(here), watch them grow."

I think if Thorin said it to Bilbo as a an invitation to stay in Erebor. And like would give him a seed box or better a treasure box full of acorns (to go with the oaken symbolism here). It might be understood by Bilbo like a proposal.

Meannwhile on the reverse maybe Bilbo giving a comb or hair accessories he made himself, like wooden ones. Maybe in dwarwish culture you need to do them yourself, you chose your ore etc to match your future spouse and you engrave them with your family name/symbol. And so Bilbo made a comb and some beads for Thorin unbeknowst to him that this is actually what would occure if he was to propose to a dwarf.

These might be just some parts of courting ritual and not like one symbolic gesture.

And to the second part of question about consequences. Of course misunderstanding ensues after those events. Bilbo is all flustered and wide eyed. And asking Thorin if he's sure. And Thorin saying that of course, that even though he knows nothing of plants he knows they are needed in Erebor too.

And because the official "planting" is like whole wedding event. Bilbo prepares and goes asking Balin and Bofur how the ceremonies should be prepared and they are baffled at first what does he mean and that's how they are first to know what happened. And try to explain it to Thorin. When Thorin finds out he is mortified at first but then realizes that yes of course he wants to marry Bilbo. And they don't reveal to him he didn't know but since then Thorin starts asking more about hobbitish traditions especially regarding courting and couples.

In other way if it was Bilbo who proposed. Thorin would be blushing and grunting and be bashful all of sudden. And would just storm away being very very happy inside. Probably not even realising how he reacted to poor Bilbo. And Bilbo would be going around confused. Meanwhile Thorin would start to prepare for the wedding and making proposal gifts on his own. While avoiding Bilbo, cause that is the dwarven tradition or something. And of course he would also find out from someone else what has happened. And he would seclude himself to think things through cause he wasn't planning on proposing but yes he loves Thorin and he is not sure about Thorin's feelings so he hopes he didn't force dwarven king into marriage with him. And so he sneaks into Thorin chambers to talk to him simply. And well they clear out confusion. And maybe Bilbo stays the night even though it's sort of against dwarven courting traditions but Thorin doesn't care, he is the king after all and no one will know if Bilbo slips out in the morning. And of course because Kili wanted to play a prank on his uncle and had no idea Bilbo is in his chambers he finds out first. And then babbles everything out by accident later.

[akingofcarvenstone]

How do you or would you headcannon Bilbo and Thorin accidentally proposing or getting engaged and how would they proceed when they find out or the other accepts the proposal?

I'm so sorry for not noticing this ask sooner, but thank you! I rarely check this blog since I mostly stay on my main blog. And tbh it's been sooo long since I've been invested the fandom, so I'm not sure this answer will be the best thing I've come up with. I'm gonna need a refresher on Hobbit/LotR lore after this 😅

Well, to me, an accidental bagginshield proposal would occur one of two ways:

1) let's say that in dwarven culture (headcanon), giving your intended a great gift like a family heirloom or something personalized, would be a form of proposal.

Thorin giving Bilbo the mithril mail could have been his proposal, and while the other dwarves and Gandalf understand the meaning, Bilbo doesn't and no one tells him bc to everyone it just seems obvious. Everyone starts treating him with the same regard that they do with Thorin, their leader, and Bilbo notices the change in demeanor and asks either Bofur, Balin, or even Gandalf about it and they're like "Mr. Baggins, didn't you know? Thorin proposed to you, you are his consort! Congrats on being the only one to get through his rock solid heart!" And then he says something like, "I'm sorry, what?! What do you mean I'm his consort?!" "Don't you remember, when Thorin gave you the mithril vest? In our culture, giving a fine gift like that to your intended is a proposal! And you accepted his gift, so you sealed the deal." And Bilbo tries to tell them that he didn't know, that this is a mistake. But when he's asked whether he would like to return the gift and end the proposal, he can't do it, he doesn't want to, so he just goes on with the knowledge that he's the King's consort. Thorin would be so pleased that now he can be touchy feely with Bilbo, and it wouldn't really be much of a change from what they were like before, but now everyone knows and accepts. (And if you want the angst feelings, the scene at the end where he tells Balin what he feels about Thorin after he dies hits harder.)

2) if Bilbo proposes: like I said, I need a refresher on the lore so if there's a canon explanation for a Hobbit form of proposal or anything, just excuse me and let's pretend.

So, hobbits really love food and simple living and comforts, right? But that's not really possible when they're on a long journey, so Bilbo has to make do with what he has. Maybe they're short on their food supplies one day, and Bilbo has some food from back home that he packed and it's wrapped in a nice package, and he was saving it for himself, but offers it to Thorin and Co. And we all know Hobbits love to eat, and they eat a lot, so a few rolls of bread is like a snack to them, whereas for others it's a full meal, so the dwarves think he has a feast and is enough to feed them all for the night. Bilbo unintentionally proposed to Thorin by giving him a gift of a homemade 'meal' in a nice package, as is the custom (headcanon), and for a moment Bilbo forgets about it and just feels good for providing his friends with some food. Later that night, Gandalf reminds him, teasing him, about his proposal and Bilbo blushes and coughs nervously, saying he didn't mean to, but luckily, neither Thorin nor the other dwarves know about it so he thinks he's safe. But, Kili and Fili, sneaky little guys, were eavesdropping on their 'private' conversation and rush to let Thorin and everyone know about the meaning of Bilbo's gesture. Thorin scolds them for being nosy and that they probably heard wrong anyway, but the next day Thorin asks Gandalf and he confirms. Thorin says nothing but now that he knows, he allows himself to get physically and emotionally closer to Bilbo and from there, they kinda just live as a couple and no one questions it, they're happy for them!

It's been so long, but this is bringing back my bagginshield feels from back in the day 🥰

If anyone wants to write a fic or draw something inspired by this, you're welcome to do so, just let me know!

[opheliajupiter99]

More Random Fanfic Ideas

Even when I try to rest my brain, creative sparks keep happening, I stg XD.

So: I love mad science, it leads to body horror, my favorite genre of horror, and there's nothing better than a story about a batshit insane scientist that recklessly tampers in God's domain - and I also love sickly sweet stories, and mad sciences often love at least -one- of their horrific abominations lol.

I've had a couple ideas floating around about the mad dwarven doctor that experimented on Torbek already for a bit now, and while I did love my last Google Doc fanfic, I think it's time to get back to more grounded fanfics, like ones in the main universe.

Besides, the pause is going on to freaking -September-, I need SOMETHING to keep me sane while I can't watch more OUAW (and before anybody says anything, I know I should get into the other campaigns, I just can't force myself to care about them, as much as I'd like to).

So, I think sometime soon I'm going to start working on a mad science, horror thingie revolving around the mad dwarven doctor, the facility he works in, etc etc. I'd work off canon for it, but given there's hardly any canon for him thus far, I'll kinda be forced to work with headcannons lol.

[crossleft]

**VEILGUARD SPOILERS**

Finished the game last night and had some thoughts. Overall I really enjoyed it! Would definitely recommend playing it but it's also fun to nitpick lol.

Did my standard first run where I go in as blind as possible playing a dwarven warrior. Went with the Warden background because duh and it was really solid, seems like they referenced it a lot throughout so interested to see how other origins will go. Don't think I missed too too much but I know for sure I accidentally missed at least one mission when I saved Treviso too early...anyways:

As usual dwarves got the short end of the stick (hah punny). 18 codex entries to the 43 elven ones and roughly half were just letters and stuff from Lace to her mom, hell one of them was just about the basics of the fucking chantry! Seriously?? I romanced Lace so I don't mind the letters much but damn yall couldn't do more with the deep roads or with Kal-Sharok? Entire chunks of lore breezed over like nothing, and having the thaig and the titan only being one off missions where you can't even go back to the area was the cherry on top. Disappointed but unsurprised.

Liked the companions, overall no big complaints. Up until the end where you find out he's dead the whole Varric always being in bed and not super upset about Bianca being destroyed thing definitely threw me off so that was a big surprise.

Taash was fun think I'll romance them next play through but acting like Qunari are weird about gender after very specifically having Bull say it's no big deal was a bizarre writing choice.

I liked it but Laces romance felt a little underwhelming, curious to how it'll stack up to the others.

Davrin/Assan and Lucanis/Spite were perfect no notes on them, keep up the good work lol.

Bellara felt kinda like they were trying to redo Merrill, which like...ok...then why not just bring back Merrill at that point? And the stuff with her brother felt very paint by numbers. She felt underwritten I guess idk.

Emmerich was a fun surprise since I went in blind I was expecting a standard evil/gloomy necromancer but he ended up being one of my favorite characters. Went the Lich route out of curiosity but haaaate that Fred got killed, for sure keeping him around next time.

Neve grew on me a little by the end but she was overall my least favorite. Felt like someone's OC getting shoehorned in with a bunch of cannon characters. Like the entire first half of the game she and other companions will allude to cases and interesting sounding stories but never expound on them. Every time Rook talks to her she's like "oh it's a long story, maybe I'll tell you some day 😏" then proceeds to never tell it lmao. Maybe it's alluding to comics or something I haven't seen but again, coming in blind it just made her a very boring 2D character outside of the eventual romance with Lucanis which I liked a lot.

Gameplay reminded me a lot of ME3 but with swords. Pretty low bar but as far as a dragon age game goes I'd argue it was easily the best combat in the series.

Leveling system was fine, nothing inspiring. Not the biggest fan of the companion leveling but being able to respec easily with no cost balanced it out.

Inventory was great, massive improvement over all the prior games. I really liked how stuff levels itself up and being able to change appearances easily and early was awesome. Wish you could do a little more with companion armor but that's not really a big deal and they all had decently broad options.

Was worried about only having 2 party members but it worked pretty well I thought. Between that and the bond system it does a good job encouraging swapping them out more. Felt like a lot more ambient dialog too which was a good touch.

Crows retconning into basically a mob family was...a choice. I kind of get it though and imo you can headcannon them being so different as chalked up to Zev having come in and made big changes over the years. Is what it is.

Was initially kinda pissed about the loss of prior choices but having played it now I think they did ok. Bringing the inquisitor in and getting their letters still made it feel like those choices mattered. And like in game it's been years and it all happened in other countries, it makes sense for a lot of that to be old news that most people don't discuss especially given the drama of their own current events. Would have still been nice to get a few codex entries at least.

Bringing Morrigan back felt like a bad choice to me. She's my cannon origins romance and they changed her up a bit too much post inquisition. Like where is Kieren? Where is the HoF? She doesn't mention them and nobody asks?? Just weird. Hot take but her taking Mythal's knowledge made perfect sense for her character, she always sought knowledge like that and her main objection with Flemmeth was that she would be taken over. So now she gets the knowledge and also keeps her mind, classic Morrigan work around imo.

Didn't like the direction they went with the Antaam. Had potential but making them all faceless with super deep voices felt overly dehumanizing. And them going in with elven gods made zero sense at all, like their leadership doing it secretly sure but there at the end why the hell would those footsoldiers follow them like that when they are so distrustful of magic?

Loooooved the Wardens but what's with the changes to the blight? My headcannon is the gods have made it more directed so that's why it's not infecting people so indiscriminately. But based on prior knowledge literally every non Warden character and most npc should be dead or darkspawn waaay before the end of the game. Doesn't feel like they explained it very well. Digging the new darkspawn look though, best appearance change since Origins.

Dorian, Isabella, and Solas felt very in character, no big notes on them.

Hawke not being mentioned unfortunately makes sense to me. They were pretty important 20 years ago in one city on the other side of the continent. Think of it like this, without looking it up who was the mayor of the next city over from you in 2004? They were important but why would you bring them up now decades later to people who have no way of knowing them, even if you were buds with them back then. Varric is the only one who might but he's kinda dead the entire game so again makes sense you don't hear about Hawke

Gifts are back! :) wish there was more than 1 per companion I'm trying to redecorate yalls rooms lol.

Why are there random Wardens telling everyone about the joining????? Just casually too like what the hell yall this is supposed to be secret and you're saying "wow this shitty ale reminds me of the joining where I drank darkspawn blood magically enhanced with archdemon blood" BRO??? SHUT UP this shit is top secret what the fuck???

Liked the redesign on spirits with the sole caviat that I liked rage demons as sentient lava...them having legs feels weird

Super minor gripe but why is the special dwarf armor just like form fitting stone abs now??? The bad ass blocky tank look was so cool! The elven armor having form fitting feet and stuff fits the culture why would dwarves do that? Wouldn't know since there's barely any lore on Kal-Sharok 🙃

Kal-Sharok being set up as this mysterious, secluded, hyper competent thaig where they likely formed their own society of impromptu Wardens cut off from Thedas for hundreds of years was fascinating. They expounded on this precisely not at all....bro why. EVERY thaig gone but them and traditional Orzammar and they only survived because they changed! Seemingly still in touch with Titans, was this only since Valta connected or sooner?? Such a cool story and they didn't do shit with it? After 10 years!? Losing my mind dude they just refuse to do anything with this lore and it's so fucking frustrating.

Aaaaanywho starting a second playthrough. Going with a rouge elf shadow dragon, gonna romance Taash. Probably do a qunari mage next playthrough but we'll see. Curious to see anyone else's thoughts but mostly this is to vent mine.

[klngfili]

How do you or would you headcannon Bilbo and Thorin accidentally proposing or getting engaged and how would they proceed when they find out or the other accepts the proposal? Do you think Fili would be helpful to the situation or just laugh about it?

okay okay okay so im really sorry for not answering your first message yet i havent forgotten it!!!i just cant choose an OC for it i just have way too many and that battle royale takes some time

I blacked out for half and hour and this is the result i guess (most of it under the cut cause its kinda long)

okay so accidentally im headcanoning theres some sort of betrothal braid for dwarves (which like yes it has been done to death but again accidental) and bilbo like just offers to braid thorins hair on like a lazy morning of very little to do in the shire, theyve been to the farmers market, thorin has done his social call at the bee keeper to check in on his bees (hes allergic so they cant have them in bag end so he has a bee sitter, but theyre still his bees and he is kinda obsessed w them, just as much as his veggie patch thank you very much, his zucchini won a prize recently actually)

so anyway thorin gets home (bilbo went home after the farmers market) maybe its starting to get a tad autumnal and they cozied up outside on the bench and bilbo offers to braid his hair because "oh look at that youve got a leave or two stuck in your hair, really early ones this year" so he untangles bits and strands of thorins hair and then decides why not braid it, it would look so nice braided he likes braids all the dwarves like braids in their hair, he's seen so many dwarves in his life and they all had braided hair and beard styles (more or less kili is an outlier and refuses to be counted) so he weaves his fingers through thorin's hair and voila would you look at that! he is actually kinda proud of himself

thorin only notices the braid and the specific style and nature of the braid once he wants to braid his hair for bed (for safekeeping so it doesnt get frizzled and tangled while he sleeps) and he pales and then blushes because what is this? and he tries to undo it but then - - - stops

he leaves it that way, he thinks it suits him and besides whos gonna notice anyway, it can be his secret for now. so he secures the braid

it isnt until after the harvest, and after thorin and bilbo started fretting about the weather further east, especially in the mountains, especially with them expecting company that has to cross those mountain passes that must be quite treacherous with the first snowfalls of the season, that thorin remembers the braid.

not that he ever forgot it, he makes sure its in tip top shape every morning afternoon and evening, bilbo has even commented on him becoming vain in his old age (not that Thorin is old) and everytime he does it fills him with so much warmth and giddiness that he just has to scoop up bilbo and smother him in kisses (which doesnt help with endless the teasing but thorin can tease back plenty) but he remember that even tho bilbo doesnt know what it means (or at least thorin thinks his lover doesnt, bilbo has after all never really done anything to show that he knows about dwarven customs like this one specific one) that they have enough visitors coming to fill every nook and cranny in bag end who do know the precise and very specific meaning of that braid. 

So he tries to explain, he tries his best, he doe his best to at least try and get bilbo to understand, to prepare him for the onslaught of stares and jests and rowdy comments, he cooks a fancy meal, a four course one that would make every hobbit housewife proud (and he did have some tips from his bee sitter mind you, where to forage the best mushrooms which butcher has the best mutton, the best herbal marinades, the hobbit essential to giving your special someone a special someone, she even wishes him the best of luck with his endeavor and squeezes a few extra bottles of honeyed ale into his hand and even sends her grandson?? Thorin isnt quite sure how this young hobbit is related to her but he is, he looks like he is to get some flowers, o thorin must be  a pitiful sight, he couldve gotten the flowers himself, he knows which ones are bilbos favourite wildflowers, the bouquet filled with some ears of barley some sunflowers and some umbels of elderflower for their sweet smell) but he accepts never the less and hurries on home, his arms overflowing with baskets and flowers and bags

His only silver lining is that the company isnt supposed to arrive until later this week, that he has a few days still, a few days to make this right, to explain things and learn more about hobbit customs, especially the ones that have to do with the whole spending the rest of thor life together part, right now that seems like the most important part, the part that makes his heart hammer wildly and makes the pieces all set in place, makes him see it all clearly.

The road leading up to bag end is already jammed with carts and ponies when he arrives, most of these dwarves he knows of course and most of them are on their way to the blue mountains and only staying long enough to unload their gifts and trunks and passengers right at bilbos door. He almost wants to drop everything hes carrying, all his treasures, and hurry up the rest of the road, the last few metres to bilbos door

Bilbo has to know 

he needs to know

He elbows his way through the gathering crowd, pushes past hobbits and dwarves aside alike not really caring if they moe out of the way in time or not, he wants to apologise but also this is not the time his mind is only focused on one thing and that is getting to that door and to bilbo before- 

“Uncle!” comes a unison shout followed by a stern “Well if that isnt my oakhead of a brother, hello dearest, oh whats this then?” 

and thorin almost trips over his own two feet.

“You two?? Engaged?? And not even a raven, my my what a great brother i have in you.”

Its bilbo that pipes in to save him “well… erm… we were going to wait until you all arrive, isnt that right, honey, thats why you bought all that food.”

“Thats not gonna feed us all after our long journey, but congrats I guess” Dis claps him on the shoulder and thorin feels his soul leaves his body, he can see mahal and mahal is facepalming and shaking his head in disappointment as if he just lost a bet with his wife.

When he comes back to himself, fili is the only other dwarf still standing outside the door of bag end, mouth agape, like he too just lost a bet.

[gil-shalossssss]

Random KotLC + PJO Headcannon

So Nico is shadow-travelling somewhere and gets pulled off course by Tam, who is just doing something with shadows and doesn't even know Nico exists until this happens. Nico stumbles out of the shadows Tam is controlling, goes, "Wait where the heck am I?" and faints. Tam and Linh both absolutely freak out, but Linh convinces her brother to just leave the boy there until he wakes up. So Nico wakes up an hour later and finds two strange elves staring at him. Naturally, he jumps up and pulls out his sword. The exchange goes as following, with Nico speaking English and Tam and Linh speaking the Enlightened Language:

Tam: I told you we should've dumped him outside Ravagog!

Linh: It's okay! We won't hurt you!

Tam: SHE won't.

Nico: Who the hell are you? Why were you watching me sleep?

Linh: ...What?

Tam: It's a human!

Nico: Stop speaking gibberish and talk to me!

Linh: We won't hurt you.

Tam: Wait, if he's a human, how did he just do that? Are you a hum- el- humelfian? That's not a word.

Nico: So are you going to attack me or are you going to talk to me?

Linh (holding her hands in front of herself placatingly): It's okay. Are you an elf?

Anyway they don't get answers because they can't talk to each other, but Nico is curious so he keeps coming back, and eventually he learns the Enlightened Language and Tam and Linh learn English. He visits them, teaches Tam to shadow travel, makes friends with them. He's told them about Iris-messaging and sometimes they use it, but most of the time they talk in person. The gnomes know about him, and while most don't like him because of the child-of-Hades thing and the contact-with-humans-is-forbidden thing, they are not mean to him and don't tell the elves.

When Wildwood starts dying, Nico spends a stupid amount of time trying to find the cause, eventually landing on "ogres." So he goes to talk to King Dimitar about it, even though Tam and Linh told him no. He literally walks up to the gates of Ravagog and goes, "I need to talk to your king." He gets thrown out. When Sophie shows up, he's back at Camp Half-Blood doing stuff, so he misses the whole conversation about them going to live with the dwarves. Also, I'm not 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure that Imparters don't work in Dwarven places, so logically Iris-messages wouldn't, either. So Nico comes to visit them and finds... nobody. The landscape is dying and the gnomes are gone, he knows that, he's seen it, but Tam and Linh? WHERE DID THEY GO? Nico Iris-messages them and gets no response, so he tries again and again until Iris sends him a message that says something like, "Dude, stop. I already told you I can't get through." Nico goes back to Camp Half-Blood and spends two-thirds of his time worrying about Tam and Linh, because if they're not there and they didn't contact him beforehand and he can't contact them now, SOMETHING must have happened to them. He continues Iris-messaging them every couple hours, hoping against hope to see their faces pop up instead of Iris's "Connection Failed." By sheer luck, he manages not to Iris-message them in the middle of their stealth mission to Ravagog. Instead, he calls them right after.

Nico(English): LINH! TAM! THERE YOU GUYS ARE! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? WHY HAVEN'T I BEEN ABLE TO CONTACT YOU? ALSO, WHERE ARE YOU?

Tam(English): Jesus Christ Nico you scared me!

Linh(English): Nico! This isn't a good time!

Nico(English): YOU WERE MISSING FOR OVER A WEEK! ANY TIME IS A GOOD TIME!

Linh(English): We've been trying to contact you, we promise, but now is really really not the time to be talking—

Nico(Italian): DOVE SEI? (pause) WHERE ARE YOU?

Tam(English) Havenfield. Can we talk to you later?

Linh(English): Yeah, the Councillors are staring at us. At you, actually.

Nico(English): ...Councillors? (finally registers that there are people in the vicinity other than Tam and Linh) OH GODS who are these people?

Tam(English): Some of them are allies. Some of them are people we've been forced to work with.

Keefe: So hey are you gonna tell us what's happening or are you gonna keep talking to the hologram boy?

Nico(Enlightened Language): Hologram boy?

(Cue elven hysterics)

Nico(Enlightened Language): Is one of them made out of rock or is that just me?

Tam(Enlightened Language) : He's rock.

Sophie: Guys, WHAT IS GOING ON?

Linh(Enlightened Language): Oh this is Nico. He's our friend.

Nico(Enlightened Language): Whom you have scared half to death because you suddenly vanished without a trace!

Linh(Enlightened Language) : There really wasn't time to contact you before we moved in with the dwarves—

Nico(Enlightened Language): DWARVES?

Tam(Enlightened Language): Yes, that's what she said.

Nico(Enlightened Language): Guys, you can't trust dwarves, they steal EVERYTHING—

Linh(Enlightened Language): Have you ever met dwarves?

Nico(Enlightened Language): No, but they stole someone's almanac and that person turned me into a corn plant when I returned it—

Linh(Enlightened Language):Okay we have to hear that story later.

Councillor Emery: Who is this? And what (gestures to Iris-message) is this?

Tam: Well that's more explaing than I want to do right now.

Edaline: Can we focus? Please? Ogres and gnome plagues are more important than hologram boys.

Nico(Enlightened Language): Can you not call me that?

Tam(Enlightened Language): That's a good idea. We'll call you back later, Nico.

Nico(Enlightened Language): What NO—

(Tam swipes through the Iris-message)

And then they do the whole thing with Calla and Panakes, but before the Council leaves, they require Tam and Linh to explain. The Council is mad at them for breaking the No Human Contact rule, but then Tam points out that he's a demigod and they don't know what to think. They leave it at "To Be Determined." Nico, meanwhile, is sitting and staring at the spot where the Iris-message was and fuming. How DARE they disappear and worry him sick, only to tell him "not now" when he finally reaches them? Tam and Linh call him back before they leave Havenfield and explain the whooooole long story. Nico is like, "Well, that sounds like it sucked. But if you ever disappear like that again I will never talk to you again."

So yeah that's about all I have and this post is really long anyways goodbye

[bamsywrites]

Questions 2, 13 and 28 for the RoP Ask Game. :-)

Thank you thank you. My brain gave out on the last one 🙃

2. Who is your favorite character and why?

I think people are expecting me to say Sauron but it's not. I love Sauron obviously, but my answer is Prince Durin. He's so relatable and understandable. His friendship with elrond is Fantastic as is his marriage. But I feel like I get him as a character and relate more than I do to the elves. He's strong in his morals, he loves his friends and family deeply, he cares for the Dwarven people bit he's so flawed in his pettiness, his temper. That makes him all the more relatedable His storyline is so unappreciated and I feel the acting is on par with Celebrimbor and Sauron. What he says about looking into the kings eyes and not seeing his father, and the speech he gives his people, the fucking whole scene before the Balrog? I was a wreck. I love him.

13. What character do you want to sing? To who? What about?

This would be so so so far down the line, and under the presumption that Theo is The King Under the Mountain, but having an angry song from Isildur to Theo would be interesting. This is probably because I love Isildur just throughout all of Tolkien and also The King Under the Mountain is probably one of the stories I'm looking forward to the most in this RoP. Next to Numenor Falling and the Nazgul.

28. Do you have headcannons about any character? Or the world?

Boy do I. There's so many I have but I'll just list a few lol

I think that part of sauron did want to stay in Numenor. I think a part of him wanted a fresh start. I think this mainly because if you look at "Halbrand" he's a disheveled dude with scurvy who needs a bath. Sauron was always presented as beautiful because he admires beauty and he's egotistical as fuck. That's why first age sauron looks like that, that's why annatar looks like that. I think the fact that he came back in such a way shows that he was at a point of unknowing, of inner conflict, of possibly wanting to be redeemed. I view sauron kind of like Darth Vader sometimes. There's Mairon, who admires beauty and creating things and peace and order, who was manipulated into sauron. When Morgoth fell, he still had adar and the orcs by his side so he was able to maintain that facade without Morgoths manipulation but once they turn on him and then he's left as goo for 1000s of years, he's not so confident. But the manipulation won, in the end, and while he may have been a desire for a new start the minute sauron saw a flaw in the world, he'd seek to fix it by world domination.

Nori is a direct ancestor of the Tooks.

Keman is The Mouth of Sauron.

It's 1030 and my brain is mush I know there's more but i can't write it

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[snazum]

i wish i could build upon my DA:O dwarven society headcannons (And just dwarven society in general) and make stories and stuff but I'm terrible with words lol so I shall just daydream

[masontes]

(Tw slight g0re?)

Next up Dwarven necromancer and my first dnd character Skillavard Goldstone bc why not

Gender: male

Age: 127? (He's not to sure anymore)

Sexuallity: straight (but an ally to the lgbtq)

Alignment:neutral good

Dwarven necromancer from copperhollow... once very powerful...until he died... some magic nonsense later he accidentally cast raised dead on himself and came back... now cursed for every time he dies he becomes more like a revenant until he dies a final time and ceases to exist...(hence the glowy hand)

Agere headcannons:

Caregiver. He is like that kinda grandpa that is a touch old fashion but has great stories... he might not fully get it but if it helps who is he to judge... definitely raises a few skeletons to help with the little one. Sometimes likes to do a little sneaky spoilage of the regressor... he was loaded when he was alive because dwarfs and mines... gold is in his name... just don't tell their primary caregiver... usually a babysitter then a caregiver but won't complain if he had a regresor to care for

[erosofthepen]

Dís left erebor when she was like 10 and i headcannon that she has a super thick accent that’s different from Thorin’s, an accent from the blue mountains.

And their sibling arguments are always the greatest, since Thorin has this fancy upperclass accent and Dís is there spitting out swears in this nigh unintelligible accent to the point where Thorin can hardly understand her. 

Fili and Kili have Thorin’s accent (for some bizarre reason?? It’s the same as Thorins in the movies), but understand their mother perfectly, and always sit down with a tub of popcorn whenever their Uncle and Amad get into a good old fashioned sibling fight.

[blitz-and-hearth]

Merry Christmas y'all, anyway let's talk about if elves and dwarves would celebrate Xmas. It's like a Pagen based holiday that the Christians stole, and then capitalism stole it from them so now it's much less religious in nature. You think Elves and Dwarves have like a similar winter holiday or just completely different holidays at different times?