#gimli the gnome

[laisrinel]

Legolas of Gondolin meeting Gimli the Gnome - Part 1

Worked on my vision of my own post

Part 2

Legolas, an elf of the house of the Tree of Gondolin (Book of Lost Tales), met Gimli, a gnomish elf rescued from Telvido (Book of Lost Tales).

There is near to nothing in canon about these two but I hc they meet at Nan-Tathren or the Havens of Sirion.

Legolas is in his house attire. We know his house helped the refugees of Gondolin to escape and he was at the front of the escape. So he survived Gondolin. For now, he is not in guard duty but it's kind of a habit to keep his weapon ready. His hairs are braid (the fall of Glorfindel is still recent) and he's ready to put on his helmet if necessity arise.

Gimli was meditating before hearing a stranger approach. He likes to be in natural places and listen to trees and animals. He still has some ptsd from his captivity. His clothing is more modest and more sinda/nando : his captivity was really long and he lost envy to beautiful gnomish noldorin things. He keeps long clothings to hide his scars and a band on his eyes to show is blindess to others. He also always keeps a small sword with him : he will never be retaken alive ! and a stick to help him.

My principal hc is that they will help each other to heal. That's the most important. The tree shows it : the left part dying in the past and the right part going better in the future.

[gnomescarfcomics]

Optional Dungeon pages 33-36

[abardnamedreginald]

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[balrogballs]

early congratulations on your upcoming wedding to Mr. Balls aka Eomer with a corporate haircut 🫶🏻

my question is- do you have any Thoughts on Boromir, specifically Boromir & Aragorn. bc i adore Boromir both due to his character and the fact that I am a fellow dilf enjoyer and he seems like the only normal one out of the whole fellowship, which makes me believe that every morning he woke up thinking “what the actual fuck am i doing here”. only to push it down and move on bc he has a job to do regardless of Aragorn singing poetry at 2am and licking rocks for fun.

Thank you! Although Eomer the Goldman Sachs Intern is currently on THIN ICE because he just called me “Luthien in the streets, Pippin in the sheets” 🥲

I absolutely LOVE Boromir for that exact reason.

Because the guy’s already had a hard life and now the most abnormal elf in the realm has just announced that the fun tea party he’s invited everyone to is actually the Hunger Games.

And then he find out that literally every single person on that quest is a fucking freak, like the Hobbits are the most normal ones on there and you have the Chosen One, Buddy of the Chosen One, Tweedledumbfuck and Tweedlederanged.

And then you have Gimli who clearly eats sawdust for breakfast, the Maiar version of your freak ass uncle, and the less said about Legolas the better.

And you assume that Aragorn would be a vaguely sane person because you know he’s the heir of Gondor and the son of the noble Arathorn and the hope of your long suffering people… only to find out that Elfie Trinket And His Valley Girls were the ones who raised him and so there was absolutely no chance in hell that he’d be even remotely normal. A fact Aragorn proves to him in two seconds by saying he’s in love with said foster father’s irl daughter.

And it’s even worse in movieverse because what the fuck do you mean Elrond sends everyone off with a slice of elf toast and little cups of elf whisky but keeps the pieces of the Big Special King Sword right at home in the lap of a glorified garden gnome until his daughter looks him in the eye and says “guess I’ll die then” yes I know Aragorn didn’t want the kingship but listen it’s funnier if Elrond just wanted to keep his statue props

TLDR: Boromir is a stronger person than I because if I was him the films would have been ten minutes long because the minute Legolas started his cuckoo clock from hell act I’d have shoved the ring so far up his ass even Sauron couldn’t get to it.

[peasant-player]

Lost Tales and found Possibilities

Or

Legolas of Gondolin meeting Noldor Gimli the Gnome in his shop~

This came from @laisrinel and I liked the idea of a noldor gimli. So I kinda run with that.

I still stand on my opinion that feanor and his noldors would have got along great with the dwarves and it was kinda rude that none of the dwarves had a chance to go with the elve to valinor with orome. Such missed opportunities of fun smithing shenanigans.

I say that gimli looks really good and he was the only reason I finished this drawing.

It was cursed.

That was the third try!

I ripped one yesterday and then I spilled my soup everywhere just to find out ,after I made the whole line art again, that the new paper I use has this fun water color effect -that I did not wanted.

I made it work though for gimli. ❤️

Don't look at legolas. I'll draw him in the future again as a apology!

Btw I used glorfindels clothes for legolas and some maedhros clothes for gimli!

[aldhar-ibn-beju]

A recipe for blackstone beer á la Thrór's curse

Greetings, lovers of fine beverages and many a good drop. Today we delve deep into the sick world of the mad dwarf king. Some claim Thorin Oakenshield's grandfather was possessed by dragon sickness, but the ancient writings of the sage Raldha of Ejub from Gelsum - also known as Mordor Minor - prove that the royal craziness possessed a miraculous correlation with the consumption of Morgul-Psilos. However, his drug-savvy majesty had even more fun in the head than with the miracle mushrooms and occasional lucid moments exclusively when drinking blackstone beer, which was reserved only for the noble members of Durin's gender.

As we all know, at the end of the Fourth Age, the dwarves went mad because a powerful sorcerer called Primus Amazonias Idioticus forced upon them a mind-numbing spectacle called 'The Rings of Power'. Eventually they made the most stupid and incompetent their leaders, destroyed their high-tech forges and, through all manner of folly, their prosperity. In the end, they stuck themselves in their mines to demonstrate against global warming under the earth and thus transferred themselves united into dwarf heaven.

But enough of the history lesson, let's now get down to the preparation of the Blackstone Beer. We need the following ingredients from the shop of the Druid of Tingeltangel (today's offer is a free 'Dulldwarf' branded pointed cap only for a mega-small handling fee of a measly £99.99):

- 5 litres of beer (stout, porter or a mix of both)

- 1 litre of whiskey (the Druid recommends Laphroaig with a minimum age of 10 years)

- 0.5 litres of mulled wine (but please not the cheap stuff from Shiddl or similar food abusers)

- Peel of 2 lemons

- 200 g 'magic mushrooms' from your local chemist. Okay, if you're not keen on studying jailology and don't want to run a bit afoul of current law, you can also replace the magic mushrooms with the same amount of cranberries, but they should be soaked in 250 ml vodka (at least Smirnov) a day before.

- 1-2 teaspoons cardamom

- 2-3 cloves

- a pinch of black pepper

- 250 g obsidian

If you are too stingy to finance our needy and climate-loving druid's next Bali holiday, you can also buy the ingredients elsewhere.

First of all, let's dig out the magnificent jug of the great kings of the dwarf kingdom from the royal junk room. If this is unfortunately not available, the druid of Tingeltangel offers you the model 'Moria Deluxe' in his shop, which was produced completely climate neutrally by industrious Indian orphans for the fair price of 50 cents, for only a tiny £9999.99. If you do not want to support the selfless druid in his development work of his fortune, simply offer a suitable container with a capacity of at least 8 litres.

Normally, suitable courtiers would now supervise the production process of the delicious swill, but since they unfortunately live in the dwarf graveyard at the moment, as many garden gnomes as possible - if necessary, you can steal them from the stuffy neighbour, but please none that ride a wutz (Palatine for a truffle-loving proboscis animal) - should be distributed in the kitchen regarding the ambience.

Now fill the energetic gems (obsidian) and the whiskey into the jug. Stir according to an old custom in honour of the seven dwarf gods the mixture for 7 minutes with a suitable utensil - you don't have an original dwarf axe(?), you can also get it from the druid as the brand 'Gimli's Shame' for only £999.99. Now add the beer by the litre and stir the noble drink for 77 seconds each. Do not forget to make an appointment with your therapist or take your psychotropic drugs before continuing the process.

Then we send a suicide squad of volunteer heroes with a short life expectancy from the tribe of militaristic 'dimwits' into the mines of Moria to get Balin's Cauldron for the mad king. Let's leave the druid out of it this time, we don't want to make one-sided advertisements in an attitude journalistic manner. So we quickly get an ordinary saucepan and fill it with the mulled wine, which we now heat up on medium heat until it reaches a temperature of 77° C. Now we add cloves. Now we add cloves, cardamom and pepper and let the mixture simmer for 7 minutes.

While the mulled wine cools down afterwards, we use the time to cut the lemon peels into the smallest possible pieces - in memory of the ritual slaughter of hobbits by the mad dwarf king during the brewing process to appease the gods of the Morgul-Psilos. Then we put the cut-up hobbits (citron peels) with the miracle mushrooms (cranberries) into a mortar and pound them - well, how do you think?- for 7 minutes.

To crown it all, we combine all the components with the brew in the ceremonial jug and stir the mixture for seven minutes. Afterwards, the delicious potion should be kept in a cool, sinister dungeon for 77 minutes to refine the flavour, while his psychologically deviant majesty cruelly tortures recalcitrant high elves for pleasure. Less insane people can, of course, keep the blackstone beer in the fridge instead.

Cheers then

© 2023 Q.A.Juyub

[trixcuomo]

The Very Secret Nighthold diaries??

Meanwhile inside the Nighthold...

Haris: We're nearly at the top of the tower. The site of Gul'dan's demise, and his old wedding ring, can't be far. Come on!

Dramatic music: dun dunn dun dun dunn. Dananana naa naa na na dun dunn dun dundun... 🎶

Trixany: H-Haris, I... I don't see why we had to hire those gnomes to hike through the Nighthold with us. It's so hard traveling with them!

Haris: I thought it would be a nice nod to the LOTR fans out there. Crossovers mean big bucks.

Trixany: Maybe if Merry and Pippin weren't clinging to my legs! *eyes a smirking Frodo*

Pippin: Sam will kill you if you try anything.

Trixany: And why do you keep saying that? It is the weirdest threat ever--do you think I'm somehow coming on to your rude friend? He's the one who keeps smirking at me!

Gandalf: Fool of a took! You know what would calm everyone down? Did I ever tell you all about how back when Sauron and Sarumon dated, and he was more than a burning eye at the time, I used to do this pointy hat trick for them--

Everyone: NO.

Haris: Honestly Gandalf, you should stop talking about that pointy hat trick. I put a decency clause in your contract.

Gandalf: Dagnabbit!

Sam: Gandalf, I will kill you if you try anything with Frodo.

Trixany: Stop saying that!

Sam: Or Haris.

Trixany: How come she also gets special treatment?

Haris: Aw, thanks!

Aragorn: *writes in his journal* Day 3,051 with these flirty gnomes and that nancing elf. She really thinks she's some Horde B-celebrity. As if. She's hardly even a shieldmaiden with that hair.

Trixany: Um. I can hear you narrate that journal. Could you do that quieter?

Aragorn: *writes smaller, mutters* ...stubble count: 54. Good, but could be better.

Frodo: *pouts* I wish we were back at the castle, taking a bubblebath in Galadriel's basin. She had the nicest shampoo. *pouts more*

Gimli: Aye! Wouldn’t mind bein' tossed inta that!

Boromir: Heh! And I got to um, wash Frodo's cute feet.

Sam: Hissssss

Boromir: Sam. One does not simply bathe Frodo's feet. You shoulda realized that.

Trixany: Hey, so. I want to double-back and find Legolas.

Haris: Huh? Where'd he prance off to?

Trixany: This morning, he said he couldn't stand the journey anymore and was going to the Gap of Rohan with Galadriel. He was supposed to bring me something back, but now I'm worried.

Legolas: *strolls in, no Galadriel* Bad news, Trix. The Gap's closed.

Trix: No!! But you said they were supposed to be having a big summer sale!

Haris: ...

Gandalf: ...

Trixany: Look. Legolas is the only one on this weird trip who gets me, okay?

Legolas: Yes, boyyyy!! *waggles his fingers*

[hatakashashrimp]

Also Gimli just being an adorable little gnome

It was supposed to be a WIP of a big serious work, but I had no "progress" with this drawing at all, so... just a headshot with the two of them. 《¤~¤》

[jackbootsinc]

Shorthand Review - Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

I was never gonna come in stanning a Gnome franchise, that's a no brainer. But this one is much worse than even the first movie.

Also, STOP PRETENDING ACTORS ARE THE SAME THING AS VOICE ACTORS.

Final rating:★ - Of no value. Avoid at all costs.

[laisrinel]

Legolas of Gondolin and Gimli the Gnome - Part 2

Part 1

[gnomescarfcomics]

Optional Dungeon pages 37-40

[semiramis-audron]

On the topic

As a child I loved the animated TV series "David der Kabauter" (German title) which in English is David the Gnome, in the original Italian David el gnomo

German Wikipedia says kabauter are small dwarfs... With pointed hats

So what looks like your cliché garden gnome is actually a cousin of Gimli I guess

However the English wiki says kabouter is just the Dutch word for gnome, which corresponds to the Irish leprechon, English hop, Scottish brownie or German kabauter which is an old word for KOBOLD

But apparently the series was based on a series of Dutch books about kabauter, which in German was translated to Heinzelmännchen

Which are benevolent House spirits who scuttle through the city at night and do your chores. And in the supposed city of origin, Cologne, they are tiny men with pointy hats, who can become violent under certain circumstances (which is why I immediately grew wary of one character in Neil Gaiman's American Gods)

In the City of Mainz though, their cousin the Mainzelmännchen, are little guys with no beards and specifically round hats, who do the same job, but also 6 became the mascots of a TV station, doing little funny skits between ad breaks

So these are leprechauns, Kobolds, gnomes and dwarfs all in one and words are meaningless in the face of "small guy with a penchant for chaos"

I'm asking you because I've seen people ask you similar questions before. Why are kobolds, as a fantasy creature, so nebulous?

Generally when people say orc, goblin, elf, dwarf, werewolf, vampire etc. a person can have a pretty solid idea of what traits that animal will have. I guess because they're usually copying that species from the same similar source works?

What happened to kobolds? I used to know them as a kind of german folklore creature, but then also as a short lizard person, and most recently there's been Dungeon Meshi, which gives the name kobold to anthropomorphic dogs.

Well, the trick is that none of these terms have a standard definition. In folklore, the words "elf", "dwarf", "gnome", "troll", "goblin", "pixie", etc. are used more or less interchangeably – all of these words might refer to the exact same folkloric critter, and conversely, the same word might be used to refer to several completely different folkloric critters, even within the same body of regional folklore, to say nothing of how their usage varies across different regions and over time.

Literally the only reason any of these terms have "standard" definitions in modern popular culture is because one specific piece of media got mega-popular and everybody copied it. For example, Tolkien is responsible not only for the popular media stereotypes of elves and dwarves: he's responsible for popularising the idea that "elf" and "dwarf" are separate kinds of creatures to begin with. Similarly, while Bram Stoker's Dracula isn't solely responsible for cementing the idea of what a vampire is in popular culture, it did standardise what vampire magic can do, and it helped cemented the idea that a "vampire" and a "werewolf" are different beasties, which hasn't always been the case.

So the short answer is that there's just never been a mega-popular work about "kobolds" to provide a standard template for the type. Most modern depictions in Anglophone popular culture ultimately point back to the interpretation set forth by Dungeons & Dragons, but D&D itself has gone back and forth on the whether they're tiny dog-people or tiny lizard-people, with the tiny dog-person version being the earlier of the two, so even folks who are directly cribbing from D&D will vary on this point depending on which particular edition they're name-checking.

[reality-warp]

Someone asked me about a year ago if Modern AU versions of the Ravame’s Bane cast were to play in a DnD campaign together (which they absolutely would), what race/class/subclass combos would they choose to play as? And look what I found scribbled at the bottom of one of my old notes documents:

The Main Party:

Eleanor – half-high-elf warlock (celestial patron) – chaotic good

Aragorn – half-wood-elf ranger (gloom stalker) – neutral good

Legolas – tiefling rogue (scout) – neutral good

Gimli – goliath barbarian (berserker) – chaotic neutral

Boromir – halfling paladin (oath of redemption) – lawful good

Gandalf – silver dragonborn wizard (school of abjuration) – chaotic good

Merry – dwarf artificer (artillerist) – chaotic neutral

Pippin – gnome sorcerer (wild magic) – chaotic neutral

Frodo – gnome cleric (life domain) – neutral good

Sam – dwarf druid (circle of the land) – neutral good

Tink – aasimar barbarian (path of the totem warrior) – chaotic neutral … (alternatively the chaotic neutral cat who sits in the dice trays and knocks over the drinks)

Guest Characters:

Arwen – human druid (circle of stars) – lawful good

Merileth – air genasi bard (school of glamour) – neutral good

Haldir – half-drow paladin (oath of devotion) – lawful neutral 

Sarra – half-orc fighter (battlemaster) – chaotic good

Elladan – autumn eladrin monk (way of shadow) – chaotic neutral

Elrohir – spring eladrin rogue (thief) – chaotic neutral

Eowyn – dwarf cleric (war domain) – neutral good

Faramir – human wizard (school of transfiguration) – lawful good

Abrazir – human cleric (light domain) – lawful good

Bonus:

Var – The DM

[wearesorcerer]

Gorgoldand’s Gauntlet One-Shot...Part 2?! (of 3?)

To give the DM of our Sunday campaign a break, we players agreed to do round robin DMing sessions. I’ve somehow managed to be the first up for actual DMing. I hate DMing (except by play-by-post) and had joined this group so that I wouldn’t have to DM yet again, so naturally I was the first to have to DM an actual session outside of character creation. They gave me two demands: the game couldn’t be hack-and-slash and I was to make pregenerated characters.

So I did.

They are all quirky af. I’m running them through a module (”Gorgoldand’s Gauntlet,” 3.0 1st-level dungeon crawl, Dragon Annual #5, pg. 39-51) I thought wouldn’t take long. We just finished session two and I can foresee at least another session and probably two to complete it (12-14 hours of play at the rate we’re going).

Characters

My original intention was to make each character a character sheet that would neatly fit onto a 3″ x 5″ notecard, as I’d found dot grid ones at Walmart and figured I could manage.

Unfortunately, I lost those immediately before the session and had to remake the character sheets from memory an hour before the game was to start. These were on normal notecards because I didn’t have character sheets on hand, either.

Originally, I had rolled on the Random Edgelord Backstory Generator for each character and given them a detailed boon and drawback. (I managed to remember some of what I’d done, but only so much, so each is a little weirder as a result.) Each character comes from a different time period, the rationale being that they’d all been the victims of Victoria Belanger (with faux French pronunciation), a seemingly immortal medusa, and had found themselves restored in the bizarre-looking chambers of David Astanox, who requests as repayment that they survey Gorgoldand’s Gauntlet. The main DM couldn’t make it to the first session, so I left his character frozen in carbonite petrified in Astanox’s domain.

The characters are:

Gimli O’MacGloinovskiidesson, LN Male Dwarf Rogue. Medieval. Has a suit of mithril full plate of which he’s protective to the point of paranoia (it’s his former blankie), a phobia of all things bug-like (shrieks like a little girl [as in high pitched] on sight), and a fondness for good cheeses (specifically brie).

Ronan the Bardbarian, NG Male “Half-Orc” Skald. Bronze Age. He’s not actually a half-orc, but a genetic throwback; this gives him the Ferocity monster ability (but no Darkvision or fluency in Orcish) and Small Man Syndrome (despite being one of the biggest non-monster people he’s ever met). A former ~kindergarten teacher, he manipulates people into doing what he wants by treating them like his students (gold stars, etc.).

Phillip Withtwoells, NE Female “Halfling” Witch. Totally not a pile of crows in a coat. That’s because she’s actually a nickel possessing a pile of ravens (which have become her flock of familiars) and using them to masquerade as a halfling from c. 1955. She’s looking for a better host body (she’s immobile otherwise) and wants “shinies” to bribe/trick said host into accepting her.

The other DM’s character, Florence “F” Valentine, CN Male Dhampir Magus. Contemporary (petrified a couple of months ago). A coven of night hags and succubi seduced and devoured his imaginary friends; now he’s (almost literally) Batman. Despite this, he gets a twitch when confined to dark, dank spaces. Not particularly fond of short, human-like creatures (dwarves, some fey, gnomes, goblins, halflings, etc.). Surprisingly flammable.

Sessions

We’ve managed to make it through two rooms and a doorway each time we’ve played (c. 3-4 hours).

In the first session, Gimli repelled down a steep cliff face with Phillip tied to him (Ronan followed behind) to get into the dungeon. Unbeknownst to him, the jinkin (originally jermlaine; same thing lore-wise) who had taken up residence in the dungeon had added a trap at the entrance: a dead giant spider’s husk filled with dust of sneezing and choking (Fort DC 15 vs. 2d6 Con damage). Being arachnophobic, he attacked the husk and both he and Phillip took (2? 3? I forget) Con damage. Ronan then fell into a spiked pit with poison ivy, but saved vs. the ivy and instead just lost all but two HP (not that it matters, given Ferocity). Finally seeing the jinkin, the group walked into the next trap (wires made from human hair stretched across the passageway; hanging from these were fish hooks), got flustered, set fire to the hair, and then saw the jinkin escape on similarly made ropes (used as ziplines) strung across a wide chasm.

This session, F showed up and the group stood around trying to figure out how to cross said chasm (for the better part of twenty minutes; highlights include Phillip pulling out a raven from under her blouse) before F pulled out a grapple gun to swing across the chasm while holding Phillip as I played fitting music (skip to :20 if it doesn’t start there). He threw the grapple gun back to Gimli, who succeeded at swinging across, and then to Ronan, who lost his grip and fell into the water below. As Ronan was climbing out of the water, the merrow living down there grabbed his leg and pulled him back in. A short fight ensued; the only injured party was the merrow. Afterward, it took me quite a bit of time to convince Phillip (remember: obsessed with shinies) to show interest in the twenty pound bag of coins (1000 coins -- 750 silver, 250 gold) stuck beneath a boulder in the water. Finally lifting it the rock and dividing the treasure, the party moved on to the next room, which had a weird “trap” (riddle door plus hidden rust monsters). Gimli went “berserk” (full panic mode), had his axe melt before him, and fainted from fright on turn two. (F’s rapier also got rust monstered.)

You may be wondering why it took three hours to do all of that. Well, between more introductions, tangents, figuring out how to deal with each obstacle, and hilarity, we could only do so much.

The reason I project another one or two sessions is that the next trap is Minesweeper, followed by a teleportation trap, then another riddle door, and finally the loot room (which has a weird mirror, the “boss”, and a “you screwed up” encounter). Even without needing to introduce themselves, I doubt we’ll make it through any single trap in the span of an hour.

I’m stuck on the question of continued hilarity, though. See, Gimli has nothing left to fear in this dungeon besides conductivity (the Minesweeper trap is made up of lightning tiles). There isn’t anything in the dungeon that can set F aflame except (maybe) that trap, as well. Ronan’s player isn’t sure how to play up the kindergarten aspect (he’s trying admirably, but he’s clearly confused). Phillip, meanwhile, will want to try to take control of the dungeon’s final boss (a “coin dragon” -- a magical sword that telekinetically creates a dragon construct out of nearby coins and treasure), but that’ll take at least a session to get to and will require some passing of the buck. Or nickel. Whatever. Thankfully, the teleportation trap ties into the local fey (gremlins), though the gremlins didn’t make the trap (they just utilize it for shenanigans). I might be able to concoct some arbitrary suffering from them via F’s hatred of short people.

[leviathanlazarus]

The Laughing Gnome, Lazarus, Oh, You Pretty Things! , Space Oddity 💙🌲

The Laughing Gnome - The worst song you've ever heard?

Oh gosh...so many. But I avoid songs I don’t like so it’s hard to think of one that REALLY is god-awful. Anything by 3OH3...or Dua Lipa

Lazarus - If you had one hour with ANYBODY, dead or alive, who would it be and what would you say/do?

Nick Cave. I was blessed enough to attend his Conversations with Nick Cave tour and experiencing that was incredible--he is so intelligent and has so much insight but isn’t at all afraid to not know the answers and to be a flawed person. I would love to sit with him for an hour, drink tea, play with his dogs and talk about literally anything.

Oh, You Pretty Things! - Share one favorite piece of any kind of art

Carnival Evening by Henri Rousseau. I nearly fell right into it when I saw it in person, it was so enchanting! I’d never come across it at all before that--I don’t really know what it is...I can’t figure it out. But I love it.

Space Oddity - A fictional character you relate to?

Gimli, apart from our height LOL. Stubborn as heck, often the peacekeeper, and is better at sprinting than long-distance running!

thank you for asking, my queen ~~