#irim

im gonna cheat a bit and do both hehe… these arent really secret just previously unsaid but im letting it count 🫢

Irím (Wife of Glóin, Mother of Gimli)

- she was born in the ered luin (i found very little info on this but ive always been under the impression there was a small colony of dwarves living there that merged with the refugees from erebor? but maybe that’s contradictory to something in the text! she and her sister were born and raised there, big on trading relations with hobbits etc).

-her father is a merchant from erebor falls fell in love with her mother and stays in the ered luin for her, escaping smaugs attack. her mothers passion is stained glass windows. she survives her husband by several years, he dies not long before gimlis birth. (considering that perhaps gimli is named after him? not sure though)

- irim & gloin do not get along well at first! they knock heads a bunch of times, both being very opinionated and outspoken… they eventually fing common ground in some typical romcom way. their marriage earrings are made of tourmaline!

- when the lonely mountain is retaken, she and gimli, under dis‘ leadership, leave behind her mother and sister, and travel to erebor. (as she was very close to her father, she grew up with stories of erebor in its glory days). she and her family remain close through constant correspondence.

- irims favorite game, played during free time, involves complex rules, many small figurines, many lines, cards, small rocks, and, if played well, can span an entire week. gloin lacks the patience for the long games (those are the best of course, but gloin forfeits too early) and her son rarely likes to play. the strange elf though, that gimli brings home after the war, picks up the rules quickly and plays well and gladly.

Ruiwen (Findis‘ Wife)

- despite her occupation as winemaker her favorite fruit is not grape but rather orange 🍊

- she braids her hair with red ribbons that findis gave to her as a courting gift

- findis being the favorite aunt of celegorm and aredhel led to ruiwen being close to them as well. she does make the best wine!

- before she knew findis, she was close with fingolfin (he did not introduce them though). because of this, and because feanors words deeply moved her, she took part in the flight of the noldor. this led to her and findis seperating and it was bitter and painful and plagued both of them. ruiwen was not a fighter but she survived until the dagor aglareb, where she was slain