#dwarrows

[thorinsbeard]

@dwarrows tagged me in this Topsters favourite game list. Mine are also in no particular order though the first 4 are definitely faves.

I tag @normaleeinsane , @the-blue-wraith and anyone else who wants to do this.

[ulex-hobbits]

I'm deciding that Dwarves' eyes reflect in the dark based off of that one line in The Hobbit and also a couple bits of Unfinished Tales where it describes Mîm's eyes as having a sort of red glint to them.

I can't find anything that canonically states that Dwarves have better night vision, but it's a common enough fanon thing that I'm just going to accept it as canon, and therefore why their eyes glow.

[ent-maiden]

A Young Lady  Dís

They are in voice and appearance, and in garb if they must go on a journey, so like to the dwarf-men that the eyes and ears of other peoples cannot tell them apart. This has given rise to the foolish opinion among Men that there are no dwarf-women, and that the Dwarves 'grow out of stone'. Appendices Return of the King

For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike; nor indeed can their womenkind be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice, nor in any wise save this: that they go not to war, and seldom save at direst need issue from their deep bowers and halls. The War of the Jewels

For my dwarf woman I gave her a beard, but I figure they have a different facial hair pattern from the men so I didn't give her a mustache. I wanted to give her a strong but feminine build and beautiful clothes that you would expect to find on a princess. Not a body builder, just strong. Victorian Strongwomen came to mind. I picked Vulcana as my reference because her poses looked the most regal.

As you can see she is just a pretty typical looking woman but she could carry a man in one hand.

For the second image I drew her in male dwarf traveling garb, as that is apparently what dwarf women would wear going out. It practically obscures her figure in the manner she wears it.

[haamuart]

Hobbit girl from 2019.

There were a few other Hobbit doodles but I liked this the best!

[disdainy]

tolkien's middle earth lyrics

part 3

todays song across different canons: Chip the Glasses and Crack the plates

(part 1 , part 2, part 4)

book

by the dwarves in bag end except thorin bc "he was too important, and stayed talking to Gandalf":

Chip the glasses and crack the plates!

Blunt the knives and bend the forks!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates-

Smash the bottles and burn the corks!

Cut the cloth and tread on the fat!

Pour the milk on the pantry floor!

Leave the bones on the bedroom mat!

Splash the wine on every door!

Dump the crocks in a boiling bowl;

Pound them up with a thumping pole;

And when you've finished, if any are whole,

Send them down the hall to roll!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

So, carefully! carefully with the plates!

from "An Unexpected Party", in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Or There And Back Again, Harper Collins: London 1996, p.12f.

movies

1977 movie (found here)

background music during the dwarves' dinner & cleanup of bag end:

Chip the glasses, crack the plates!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates,

So carefully, carefully with the plates!

Blunt the knives and bend the forks!

Smash the bottles, burn the corks,

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates,

So carefully, carefully, with the plates!

from Arthur Rankin Jr. and Jules Bass' The Hobbit, Rankin/Bass Production and Topcraft Limited Company, 1977.

2012 movie (found here)

by the dwarves in bag end except thorin who only arrives after this song:

[Bilbo: Can you not do that? You'll blunt them!]

[Bofur: Ooooh! You hear that, lads? He said we'll blunt the knives!]

Blunt the knives, bend the forks

Smash the bottles and burn the corks

Chip the glasses and crack the plates

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

Cut the cloth, tread on the fat

Leave the bones on the bedroom mat

Pour the milk on the pantry floor

Splash the wine on every door!

Dump the crocks in a boiling bowls

Pound them up with a thumping pole

When you're finished if they are whole

Send them down the hall to roll

That's what Bilbo Baggins hates!

from Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, New Line Cinema, 2012.

BONUS: tolkien singing the song!

[matrose]

they rarely use the written word but to me that makes the whole thing even cooler..science reliant entirely on cultural memory & passing on & preservance of information…and we know they DO this (song of durin) !!! auuuuuuu

[matrose]

had a discussion with my mom today over who would be the likeliest people to be palaentologists in middle earth if they had fossils. i of course said dwarves bwcause they are actively digging ! they are curious and knowledgable ! life turned stone what a fascinating subject?! she was initially against this and claimed numenoreans would be palaentologists & that dwarves dont have a proper scientific/ academia community to publish papers on the subject. fair argument but i dont think anyone in middle earth is doing academia… i won her over by reminding her that we only get elven & hobbit & partly human perspectives and no writings from dwarves so we dont even KNOW!!! and there is a BIAS!!!

[matrose]

We hear a lot about the legendary weapons of elves and men In tolkien's works but dwarves seem to keep those stories to themselves. Do you have any thoughts about the stories dwarves might have about famous weapons wielded by their ancestors? I'm sure they'd love the idea of passing an axe down through the generations. There's Durin's axe (because of course there is!) but that's the only one I can think of.

OH what a nice ask!

The funny thing is, a lot of famous weapons wielded by men and elves were forged by dwarves... Narsil (Andúril), one of the most famous swords we hear of, was forged by Telchar, and so was Angrist, the knife that cut a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown. You probably know this already but my first thought was that some of the most famous weapons are already of dwarvish make, and the do pride themselves on this, I think, though not as much as they might over a weapon wielded by one of their own. We do only hear about Durin's Axe as a weapon heirloom, though there's also the other Dragon-helms, perhaps passed down as a set should dragons ever strike again (with the exception of the one Hador was given of course), and Nimphelos, a pearl given to the Lord of Belegost by Thingol, though perhaps that one sank with Beleriand...

I would like to think that the knife Azaghâl used to strike Glaurung became a very important heirloom for the Broadboam clan (or Firebeard! I headcanon Azaghâl as a Broadbeam but he could be of either clan). Maybe the knife became indestructable after being drenched in dragonblood, or atleast was said to be indestructible, similar to how Siegfried becomes invulnerable after he bathes in dragonblood. If the dwarves managed to recover this knife, I can definitely imagine it being an important heirloom to whichever clan Azaghâl belonged to ❤️ This knife was likely important to the Dwarves during the war with the dragons in T.A. 2500s, as a symbol of hope!

Speaking of the Dragons - Dwarves conflict of that time, the Éothéod (ancestors of the Rohirrim) took some of the ancestral dwarvish treasures from a Dragon during this and refused to yield it, so in my heart, following close relations between the Rohirrim and the Dwarves of Aglarond, many ancestral belongings were restored to the dwarves in the early fourth age. Some possible dwarvish heirlooms related to weaponry could be:

- The Hammer of Telchar (this one is actually heavily disputed - some dwarves say that telchars hammer lies at the bottom of the sea where it was once beleriand, others are 100% convinced that this is THE Hammer of THE Telchar that he used to make Narsil. not a weapon TECHNICALLY but it is said Telchar also went into battle with it though others dispute this. a highly controversial item amongst scholars!)

- Borin's Bow (said to be capable of shooting even a dragon out of the sky, such force was behind it if pulled through!)

- The Horn of Dragonfire (made early in the third age, it was said to sound so loudly it could alert even the deafest dwarves in the deepest mines. used to warn against dragons, of course!)

- Náin‘s Shield (another renowned heirloom, it was purportedly the shield Nàin I used to protect his young daughter against Durin's Bane. She escaped with the shield to Erebor and it was passed down her line)

And I love the legendary Axe of Durin of course ❤️ I am sure it was recovered when Durin VII reclaimed Khazad-dum later on ‼️🥰🌙💘 ach theres so many lovely stories you could spin here its wonderful!