Dwarf Lovin'!

[mousapelli]

so...after watching all three LotR's in a row, I'd been ragging on two of my friends at school about the high volume of questionable exchanges between Legolas and Gimli, with the understanding that I'm blatantly misreading it because it's funny.

When I got home, I dug out my old beat copy of RotK to read the Appendices, and lo and behold, the end of App A says this:


"Legolas followed at last the desires of his heart and sailed over Sea.

'Here follows one of the last notes in the red book.'

We have heard tell that Legolas took Gimli Gloin's son with him because of their great friendship, greater than any that has been between Elf and Dwarf. If this is true, then it is strange indeed: that a Dwarf should be willing to leave Middle-Earth for any love, or that the Eldar should receive him, or that the Lords of the West should permit it."

OMFG, it's CANON! Right there in black and white! I nearly died laughing as I sent an email off to my slash-skeptical friends.

Theirloveissoburiedinthefineprint!

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I just got back from RotK

[hetaira9.livejournal.com]

hm. I didn't quite see the slashiness potential between Gimli and Orlando Bloom Legolas, but the hobbits...oh those hobbits...there was snickering throughout the theater, especially near the end when they were all jumping on the bed, and Elijah Wood and Sam Astin were gazing at each other.
*sigh*

so emotionally drained right now...

Re: I just got back from RotK

[vvvexation.livejournal.com]

It's much easier to see the slashiness in the books than in the movies.

Re: I just got back from RotK

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

i KNOW, colin was burying his face in his hands the whole hobbit-pile scene while I cackled my head off...oh those schmoopy hobbits.

I think I'm seeing it again tomorrow with my brothers.

PS-L&O is on, but the 'visually impaired' narrator got turned on somehow, and we can't figure out how to turn it off, so every couple of seconds some random guy goes "they enter Ben's office" or "Ben shakes his head sadly".

Re: I just got back from RotK

[hetaira9.livejournal.com]

oh man, no cable = no endless hours of L&O *weeps*


yeah, the hobbit orgy was just too much even for my firmly-not-into-fic-and-slash sensibilities. I resisted the urge to cackle.

I think I'm going to watch the Two Towers tonight, for lack of anything better to do.

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

And yet Legolas is so unlike anyone else Gimli could ever have dated! Just look at his lack of a long beard!

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

haha, there's another choice bit that's all about why so few dwarves get married, and it says something like "some of them simply don't choose to, being too involved in their...craft." You can practically hear Tolkein adding "if you know what I mean."

[kattahj.livejournal.com]

*grin* Naughty Tolkien.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Legolas/Gimli was one of my first OTPs, when I was a wee!Vic. It never occurred to me that they *didn't* get married, just because they were both male.

I mean, Legolas waits around 120 years for Gimli. That's devotion.

[wisdomeagle]

:) Another one has seen the light! Hurrah for L/G!

-bookverse fangirl who's shipped L/G since she first read the books and has been frustrated by A/L for... about three years.

::here from metaquotes

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

yeah, aside from the 'bridal scene' right at the end of RotK, I don't really get the A/L either. Their both tall...but that's about it.

oh geez, did I get metaquoted again? *blushes* That happens from time to time...I wonder how often people put me up there and nobody tells me...

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

Oh, my god. I SO love Tolkien but now I love him even more. (And now I have to be thinking about how this should be made into an icon...!)

[mousapelli.livejournal.com]

so totally should be an icon.

so totally should involve a ventriloquist axe. "Write me more fics, you Big Folk bitch!"

[ljash.livejournal.com]

Theirloveissoburiedinthefineprint!

Heeeheee... I'll have to steal that one.

It's understandable that there's no Legolas/Gimli chemistry in the movies, though, as the actors can't really interact much. Too bad 'cause while the Orli/Viggo chemistry was strangely intense it means yet another character is after the King. Hasn't he got enough love interests to deal with?

Plus Legolas and Gimli were sweet in the book.