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    When Gimli is but a child, he gets lost in the mines of Ered Luin. It is dark, and it is cold, and he is alone.

    He will never recover.

    With his shaking hands and his Stonefear Gimli cannot perform as well as he wished, as a Dwarf. He can't go on a Quest to reclaim Erebor. He can't go on a Quest to reclaim Khazad-dûm.

    He can, however, force his way into the Quest to save all of Middle-Earth.

    There he meets Legolas, who reminds him too much of his friend Ori, in many ways.

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    10 May 2024

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    No matter what the situation, the dwarf and the elf learn that they can rely on one another, throughout the War of the Ring and beyond.

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    07 May 2024

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    "The Elf's whereabouts do not weigh upon my thoughts, Aragorn."

    "Pray pardon my presumption, then," Aragorn inclined his head, yet a glint in his gaze led Gimli to suspect that he remained unconvinced. "You have but become forlorn since his departure.”

    “Forlorn!” Gimli threw his hands up, both mortified and indignant, “A Dwarf would scarce endure such sentiments, especially for an Elf. You forget yourself, Aragorn.”

    “Peace, my friend—I intended no offense, as you should well know. It need not be a matter of shame that you have come to hold him in esteem."

    At this, Gimli could only huff.


    Or, the five times Gimli and Legolas' bond strengthened, and the one time they fell off the precipice of friendship into the deeper waters of something else.

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    06 May 2024

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    Gimli's journey with Legolas started in the forest of Lorien and went all the way to the sea.

    This story is written as a series of drabbles and double-drabbles that highlight important (and sometimes less important) moments in their life together.

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    04 May 2024

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    Life after war has much more politics than Gimli thought, and much less Legolas than he would like, but the latter he knows (or believes) he has to get used to. Or: Legolas leaps, occasionally stumbling, into a new age, while Gimli can't see the wood for the (green)leaf.

    "How do your people court then?"

    The question was not as abrupt as it would seem, firstly because the news that his brother was courting had clearly left Legolas in deep thought for a number of days, secondly because Legolas had long ago confessed his curiosity about the lives and customs of Gimli's kin, and thirdly because Legolas' grace was well-known to be in his light feet and not his manners.

    However, Gimli saw no reason to let him have his own way entirely. "And by my people do you mean the Longbeards, or the Dwarves of Erebor, or the wandering mender that I now seem to be?"

    "I meant," Legolas said, "wandering jesters."

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    03 May 2024

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