#gigolas

[eden-falls]

the manwhores of the realm. i mean fellowship of the ring

design notes under cut!! this is the product of a lot of work and i planned to design EVERYONE but i got tired and this is a good stopping point. for now.

expect more sansûkh gigolas soon. what a genuinely phenomenal piece of writing

gandalf:

• just an unassuming scruffy old guy. nothing weird going on here definitely not a minor god wandering around kidnapping hobbits for quests

• the staff was inspired by a shepherd's crook which felt appropriate considering his role

• i did also design gandalf the white but i dont like that one as much so if it ever comes up i'll go back to it

the hobbits:

• tails!! the length indicates age which is why pippin's is the shortest

• frodo's outfit is inspired by welsh traditional clothing (i am welsh) while merry and pip are kinda more general edwardian style and sam more medieval aligned based on a particular vintage costume design i dug up

• pippin's pockets are endless and hold many mysteries! he ties his hair like that to look taller

aragorn:

• to be honest. still not sure about him. i think the green is a mistake when putting him next to legolas and i sort of think the elves of rivendell go for deeper blues and purples, but my reasoning for the green was like... nature and camouflage? this one is still subject to change colour wise

• i didn't forget arwen's necklace he just wears it under the jacket

• yah theres not really any real life inspo. the cut of the jacket is viking i think but it's like 90% made up

• the books say he is the tallest so i let that hold true. however. know i am not happy about it and will probably continue to draw legolas the tallest otherwise

boromir

• first and foremost black hair. idgaf thats what the books say and in this regard i like canon more so

• i didnt wanna just do black and white gondorian colours so i played about with saturation a bit

• i moved the tree from the shirt area to his belt buckle only because i have made the shirt too complex to properly display it

• a little inspired by traditional turkish wear! i don't have much reasoning its just how i imagine minas tirith style clothing

legolas:

• hes a WOOD ELF he is GREEN 💚

• always has a stray leaf in his hair its literally in the name

• he has scabbards for his daggers on the back of his belt

• silver metal details rather than golden like the others

• like pippin's pockets nobody knows how deep his little bag actually is. he probably puts bugs in it or something

• his bow is pretty simple. i like to think he made it himself or maybe tauriel if we r considering her canon

• hair defies physics slightly

gimli

• high ponytail gimli truther it's just GOOD

• as is usually headcanoned, there's an overwhelming viking influence here. i felt however that horns on the helmet would be too much (and historically inaccurate if thats something that matters)

• jewel tones! i think he has an appreciation for aesthetics like this. nice patterning as well

• i added leather armour here but i probably won't draw it very often because why would he wear armour to smooch legolas. it's just so i can be consistent when i DO draw it honestly

[tathrin]

The next story I am definitely 100% Not Writing: An Unexpected Wedding.

So: Elvish marriage is, we all know, a very simple thing that you don't need much...let's say ceremony to complete, wink-wink.

Dwarven marriages, on the other hand...! Well, let's just say that Durin's folk know how to throw a fancy shindig, yeah? Plus, there are the contracts. Oh, are there ever contracts! Can't have a marriage without proper contracts. No contract, and it's just a fling (even if lasts over a century), everybody knows that who knows anything.

And these sort of flings are lovely and can be very fulfilling, and many a dwarven family-unit has been based entirely upon such long-term flings; but without a contract to account for the merging (or not) of your crafts and your work and such, well, it's not a marriage, is it? Of course not.

So one day, Legolas discovers that while he's been calling Gimli his husband for like thirty years now, according to dwarven cultural standards, they're not actually married!

Gimli isn't bothered by this, and never has been, because everyone knows that he and Legolas are Together(tm), and he knows that elves consider the idea of a public "marriage ceremony" to be pretty weird, also. And it's not like there's any shame about these sorts of "flings" in dwarf culture, so everybody in Aglarond is content with the status-quo of having an unmarried lord who's known to be attached to a strange elf, and they respect that relationship entirely (even if most of them still find the fact that Legolas is an elf pretty odd).

(Also, Legolas is is going to live forever, while Gimli still assumes at this point that he'll be bound by a normal dwarven life-span, so of course from Legolas's perspective their relationship must inherently seem like a short-term affair, anyway, even if neither of them like talking about that fact...)

So Gimli's perfectly happy with their elvish-marriage. Lots of dwarves never get married at all, it's nbd.

Except Legolas doesn't see it that way. How unintentionally selfish of him, to have only wed Gimli according to the standards of his own culture, and not that of Gimli's people as well! He had no idea, but now that he knows, he must set about fixing it at once!

And that's the story of how the entirety of Rohan got roped-into helping a Wood-elf plan a dwarf-style wedding ceremony as a surprise for the Lord of Aglarond.

Needless to say, the "surprise" aspect of it doesn't last very long—just long enough for many and varied hijinks to ensue—which is good, because A: you can't really negotiate contracts without representatives of both parties involved and B: as well-intentioned as he is, Legolas has very little idea of what a dwarven wedding actually is or how to throw one.

But by gosh, is he going to try!!!

(Fortunately Gimli finds Legolas's earnest intentions endearing even when he's completely off-base about just about everything, so he looks at the near-debacle of what Legolas and his bewildered human assistants have done so far and declares it all to be extremely sweet.)

Even more fortunately, once he realizes that it matters to Legolas that they be wed in dwarf-fashion—because Legolas thinks it matters to Gimli—Gimli takes charge of the rest of the arrangements, which also means acquiring the help of a bunch of competent dwarven friends and advisors, now that the rest of Aglarond know what's going on much to the relief of Éomer and the Rohirrim who are now off the hook for anything but attending the resultant party.

Which is how we end up with Thranduil being invited to a dwarven marriage ceremony in the Glittering Caves of Rohan along with the entire royal family of Gondor and the elvish colony of Ithilien and a whole bunch of Hobbits.

He thinks the whole idea is ridiculous, of course (they've been married for years, everyone knows it, why are mortals so weird about this stuff?), but he goes along with it because it seems to matter to Legolas, even though Thranduil gets rather offended by the notion of signing contracts on behalf of his son, and has to be talked-down from interpreting that as a mortal insult by the combined efforts of Aragorn, Arwen, and Faramir.

But mainly he's just irritated that they couldn't have gotten their shit together earlier and done this before Bilbo left, because his Hobbit bestie loves a good party, and he's going to be so pissed in like four or five hundred years when Thranduil crosses the Sea and tells him about it.

(Also the party would have been way more fun with Bilbo there to make scathing commentary, and Thranduil is grumpy not having him in attendance. What's the point of declaring your favorite Burglar an Elf-friend if you can't pull him out for your own personal entertainment at parties!?)

Anyway the whole thing is a disaster, of course, because half the people involved don't actually understand what the fuck they're supposed to be doing or what half of it means, but.

But it's lovely, also.

And the Glittering Caves have never glittered quite so brightly as they do when Gimli and Legolas say their vows at last (even if Legolas's Khuzdul pronunciation is atrocious! fortunately Gimli finds that endearing, too, although the elder dwarves all wince terribly). Even the bright crystal casing that forms the centerpiece of the great hall, the one that Gimli spent five years carving until it was just right, the one that holds those three long golden hairs he's always waxing so euphoric about...

Well, even that shines brighter than usual, that day.

And far across the Sea, someone looks into her Mirror, and smiles.

And then Bilbo promptly elbows Celeborn out of the way so he can see, too. Why are elves all so blasted tall!

[sunnyrosewritesstuff]

The Hobbit Fandom Creators

I'm so excited to announce the awesome creators who have signed up to create The Hobbit specific content! Bidding opens Tuesday, February 25th, 8am ET so make sure to check out their pages over the next few days!

EDIT!!! I do apologize for jumping the gun a bit here, but it does seem I've left some creators off. They have now been added below if you want to give this updated post a reblog. (Also idk what happened formatting wise but that's been fixed as well.)

Fanfic

Thalion- Fanfic for anything Tolkien; Primarily gen fics

Humapuma- Fanfic for anything Tolkien; Pairing of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin

Juniperwick- Fanfic for anything Tolkien

Meinir Rhos (@rhosmeinir)- Fanfic for anything Tolkien

KandiSheek- Fanfic for Hobbit or LOTR; Pairings of Interest: Gimli/Legolas, Sam/Frodo, Bilbo/Thorin, Dwalin/Ori

SunnyRose- Fanfic for the Hobbit; Pairing of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin

Sleepingcreep- Fanfic for the Hobbit; Pairings of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin, Bilbo/Smaug

Anxioussquirrel- Fanfic for the Hobbit; Pairings of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin

Likorys- Fanfic for the Hobbit

Golwen_Lothlindel (@golwenlothlindel) - Fanfic for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm

Molly- Fanfic for the Hobbit; Pairings of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin, Thranduil/Bard

Wanderingjedihistorian (@wanderingjedihistorian)- Fanfic for Hobbit/LOTR

Fanart

Daughteroftheteleri- Fanart for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm; Pairings of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin, Faramir/Eowyn, Aragorn/Arwen, Morgoth/Sauron, Canon/OC

Khorazir (@khorazir)- Fanart for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm/Unfinished Tales

Paintchipblue- Fanart for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm

Mysandwichranaway (@mysandwichranaway)- Fanart for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm

Victor Makes Art- Fanart for Hobbit/LOTR; Pairings of Interest: Sam/Frodo, Kili/Tauriel

Kaciart- Fanart for Hobbit/LOTR

Piyo13- Fanart for Hobbit/Silm; Pairings of Interest: Thranduil/Bard, Mairon/Sauron, Maedhros/Fingon, Celegorm/Oromë

Podfic

WolffyLuna- Podfic for anything Tolkien

DevilWithABirdDress (@devilwithabirddress)- Podfic for Hobbit/LOTR/War of Rohirrim; Pairings of Interest: Gimli/Legolas, Sam/Frodo

Paintchipblue (@paintchipblue)- Podfic for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm

Chantress- Podfic for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm

StasiaReader- Podfic for the Hobbit; Pairings of Interest: Bilbo/Thorin, Nori/Dwalin, Dwalin/Ori

Chestnut_pod- Podfic for Hobbit/LOTR/Silm

Fan Labor

Lalaith Quetzalli- Fan Labor for Hobbit or LOTR

Heckofabecca- Fan Labor for anything Tolkien; Experience in LOTR and Silmarillion

CelticSky- Fan Labor for anything Tolkien

Anxioussquirrel- Fan Labor for Hobbit or LOTR

[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

[frodosrings]

i love ‘em

[eldhuug]

Gigolas kings of miscommunication and cultural differences

[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 🍂

[deheerkonijn]

From the early days of our modern ‘verse. 💪🏻 Out on the trail, stuffin pamphlets, sniffin each other out.

[weevilwizard]

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

[deernopie]

✨✨✨

[maalidoesart]

hello my old heart

[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!

[butchjesus]

still obsessed with these drawings of legolas and gimli.....