Clarity of Vision Chapter 28
Title: Clarity of Vision, Chapter 28
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin, Kili, Fili, Balin, Dwalin, Dís
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3600
Story Summary: In a Middle-Earth where Erebor never fell, a shadow remains in the heart of the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo Baggins finds himself drawn ( Read more... )
Relationship: Thorin/Bilbo
Characters: Bilbo Baggins, Thorin, Kili, Fili, Balin, Dwalin, Dís
Fandom: Hobbit
Warnings/Spoilers: None
Rating: PG
Word Count: 3600
Story Summary: In a Middle-Earth where Erebor never fell, a shadow remains in the heart of the Lonely Mountain. Bilbo Baggins finds himself drawn ( Read more... )
I know! That line of Aule's "They shall still have need of firewood" strikes me as one of the funniest in the Silmarillion (admittedly, not a book known for its punchlines!) I don't think I can get them to meet Treebeard in the continuation, but there must be Ents to the east too, right?
Wait, wait! However, prior to the Third Age, the Entwives abandoned the Ents in order to start a garden east of Fangorn in what became the Brown Lands; following the end of the Second Age, they disappeared. When Treebeard went searching for them, he could not find them.
CAN THEY FIND THE ENTWIVES? Apparently Tolkien said he thought they were destroyed in the Second Age, but maybe they moved further East? *ponders*
Aww :( But yes, I do wonder what Elrond's reaction would have been to dozens of dwarves turning up on his doorstep! :P
Even the most well-behaved dwarves would probably cause him to throw his hands up in despair and fumigate the whole place!
Doriiiii! His little brother is traveling with the company too, he gets mentioned (not by name) in the next chapter and I'm hoping he will show up more!
Oooh! I love this take on the making of the Sun and Moon... I can't quite remember, did Tolkien write somewhere that the dwarves helped Aule to make them?
I spent a long time talking with Dan about it--I kind of wanted them to have a totally different take on how they were created, but since the Silmarillion is historical fact, not a myth, within the world, I decided to stick closer to it. The canon says that Aule "and his people" made the vessels, and I'm pretty sure Tolkien meant the Noldor or his own Maiar, BUT it could totally be the dwarves, couldn't it? Oooh, now that I think of it, it would be maybe better if the Noldor made the sun and the dwarves the moon, so they had a special connection with it? I sort of imagine that after years living in the mountains with only starlight, the dwarves found the sun almost unbearable and preferred the moon...
OK, this has become really detailed, so I'd better stop here! Thank you for the wonderfully thought-provoking comment! *wanders off, thinking more*
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YES. YES. THE ENTWIVES!!!!! YOU HAVE TO INCLUDE THEM, PLEEEEEASSSSE! I so desperately want Thorin and Bilbo to meet an Ent, somehow...
I spent a long time talking with Dan about it--I kind of wanted them to have a totally different take on how they were created, but since the Silmarillion is historical fact, not a myth, within the world, I decided to stick closer to it. The canon says that Aule "and his people" made the vessels, and I'm pretty sure Tolkien meant the Noldor or his own Maiar, BUT it could totally be the dwarves, couldn't it? Oooh, now that I think of it, it would be maybe better if the Noldor made the sun and the dwarves the moon, so they had a special connection with it? I sort of imagine that after years living in the mountains with only starlight, the dwarves found the sun almost unbearable and preferred the moon...
Ooooh! I really like all those thoughts, it would make a lot of sense that the dwarves... well, wouldn't like the sun very much! And I just love the idea of them helping Aule make the moon...
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I have to re-read how Gimli responds to them! Because they're...sort of racial enemies, more than elves and dwarves are, after all! I suspect the "Entwives" call themselves just "Ents" and have lost their "Enthusbands," too. :) I know they're smaller, so now I'm imagining some rather cute ents based on lilac bushes and apple trees...who could still probably crush you pretty easily...
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