#gigolas

[maalidoesart]

hello my old heart

[chainuuser]

& they were in love!

[r0cket-lotr]

i love ‘em

[bugstuff4ever]

headcannon gimli likes to sleep near to legolas while the elf is on night watch. bc he’s immortal and needs less sleep, lego is literally assigned watch all the freakin time, so he usually just finds a tree to lean against and posts up. but once and gimli start becoming closer, he notices the dwarf will stay up to talk with him (chatting about everything under the sun. family, grief, art, music, legends,jokes) and they’ll converse late into the night. lego finds it very sweet how he sacrifices his precious sleep just to talk to him.

he can always tell when Gimli is getting tired bc his words will slow down and he’ll start to lean forward. Once that happens, it usually doesn’t take very long for him to excuse himself to go sleep.

but one night its warm and the crickets are chirping and the stars are out and they’re talking and it’s just so good that gimli pushes through the exhaustion just to hold onto the moment a bit longer. During a pause in the conversation, legolas notices soft lil snores coming from the dwarf, and looks over to nudge him and help him to his bedroll a few feet away,,,but he sees the dwarf is beginning to lean and lean and leannnnn until his head is resting on lego’s shoulder.

oh. wow.

he ignores the butterflies in his heart, and instead focuses on remaining as still as possible can so he doesn’t jostle the sleeping dwarf.

carefully, he rests his head atop gimlis. they remain this way for hours, leaning into each other, with legolas awake, trying not to think about how much he likes this.

When the sun crests the horizon and the dwarf wakes up, he blushes at the closeness

legolas spends the whole of the next day worrying that he overstepped somehow, but when they settle down that night for his watch, gimli sits as close as ever. And when his speech begin to slow and his head begins to nod, the elf braces for the “well I really must be going now”. Instead, gimli leans his head on his shoulder, nestling close, and immediately dropping off into sleep.

this time, legolas can’t ignore the butterflies

[gay-mooshrooms]

me mentally: these characters have a relationship that cannot be defined by any one thing and reaches throughout the narrative and is so woven into their characters that trying to force it under one label would be inaccurate and doing it a disservice.

me out loud: idk man they're fuckin gay

[eliounora]

the besties three drinks before ruining aragorn's wedding

[fourdogsinatrenchcoat]

Drew something really fast about Gimli’s hair turning white but Legolas still likes it 🙄 whateverrrr 🙄🙄🙄 don’t care about them 🤢

[assiraphales]

it’s the way that aragorn introduced his lifelong friend to a mutual and ended up becoming a third wheel on his own quest to save middle earth. like bro was covered in dirt trying to sleep for an hour while the dwarf n elf were giggling n flirting on their bedrolls forced to witness an enemies to friends to lovers fic in real time

[seatokki]

Lorien 🍂

[weevilwizard]

so we all agree that lord of the rings is a musical

[deheerkonijn]

PDA at the function. 🍑

[maalidoesart]

traveling companions

[eldhuug]

Gigolas kings of miscommunication and cultural differences

[injureddreams]

Just being with you makes my day so much better.

Did an OTP 30day challenge and these are some of my favorite ones. Lots of AU Gigolas for days!

[keltii-tea]

(affectionate <3)

[a-sneaky-bagginses]

Gimli, who went through standard dwarf education: "We'll need to be careful to elevate the head and monitor 'is blood pressure for the next few hours."

Legolas, who grew up in the woods surrounded by other weird ass Mirkwood elves: "...Why don't we just ask the moon to fix him?"