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Ailments challenge, Earache: In Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old

Mar 20, 2013 23:10

And here is the last in the series!

Author: Azalais
Title: In Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old
Character: OFC (a Dwarf of the Lonely Mountain)
Source: LoTR Appendix B
Rating: G
Disclaimer: Middle-earth belongs to Tolkien and his heirs: I wander there for fun, not profit( In Dungeons Deep and Caverns Old )

challenge: ailments: ear ache, character: ofc, author: azalaisdep

Comments 13

lindahoyland March 21 2013, 07:23:47 UTC

Goof for Fris!

azalaisdep March 21 2013, 18:22:16 UTC

Someone has to take charge!

someplacetobe March 21 2013, 08:20:42 UTC

I felt bad for her, being stuck with males!

azalaisdep March 21 2013, 18:23:20 UTC

Well, there really aren't that many dwarf-women, of course. And I wanted to turn on its head the Alan Bennett quote from The History Boys which inspired the series: "History is women following behind with the bucket"...

jay_of_lasgalen March 21 2013, 18:54:27 UTC

Oh, of course! I totally missed that reference, and I know it was mentioned earlier in the series ... :(

jay_of_lasgalen March 21 2013, 08:57:25 UTC

Oh, I can just picture Fris ordering her team around! A great glimpse of life under the Lonely Mountain :>)

(But that wasn't the last prompt - there is another this week ...) OK, just ignore me ...

azalaisdep March 21 2013, 18:25:43 UTC

Given that I'd had mortal women of the Rohirrim, Gondor and the Dunedain, a Hobbit-lass, and ellyth of Rivendell and Mirkwood, I thought the Dwarves ought to get a look in...

(And yes, I unhelpfully put my prompts out of order. One of the advantages of getting behind!)

jay_of_lasgalen March 21 2013, 18:57:55 UTC

After I replied, I scrolled down and saw the other drabble!

curiouswombat March 21 2013, 13:17:34 UTC

Good lass! I can imagine that the place would need a good spring-clean.

azalaisdep March 21 2013, 18:29:21 UTC

Dwarves are very fastidious and organised by nature, I think, but without access to the outside world at all, (and all the mortal Men cooped up in the Mountain with them) things might have got a bit difficult after a few weeks.

ysilme March 23 2013, 22:29:19 UTC

The parts of the story nobody ever thinks about, the cleaning-up afterwards... but one of the most important jobs to do, after all. I like how Frís strokes her beard, I just can picture her so well.

azalaisdep March 23 2013, 22:33:45 UTC

Just imagine if you had to clean up Isengard! I was very grateful that Dwarf-women also have beards - it did help to picture her in just a few words...

ysilme March 23 2013, 22:53:03 UTC

I'd rather not. In fact, I came upon some fanfic some time ago where the consequences of the flooding for everything downstream was described rather vividly - ugh.
Do you happen to have seen the images in that Weta book about The Hobbit? They created such awesome female dwarves there, with very sophisticated beard hairdos (or however that is called in English).