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Huh. Something no one knows about it…

The original version of Until You See the Light was actually set during the quest, and a good part of it was from Bilbo’s POV. It was originally split evenly between Bagginshield/Fílori, and a lot of the Fílori romance was complicated by the idea that Fíli and Ori knew one another all their lives but were only just starting to fall in love, whereas Kíli fancied himself in love with Ori. The whole idea of the romance was going to be based around the complicated relationships between the three younger Dwarves, and Kíli realising that he loved Ori, but was not in love with him, and that even if he was, it wasn’t worth distancing himself from Fíli. The Bagginshield was going to be the main focus though, since the majority of it was going to be from Bilbo’s perspective.

Sun Bak does look a lot like how I picture Sori, though Sori of course has longer hair and a beard. Doona Bae just has great body language. But personality-wise, she’s more like Mori, in the sense of “a problem is usually solved by me confronting that problem with my fist”. Sori is usually Mori’s back-up.

Yep. Which is part of the reason why their relationship took so long to develop. Legolas is not terribly off in Elven aging, it's just sort of that they are actually both that touch younger than is appropriate to be romantically involved (in the forever sense) in both their communities. Like, for the "times" The Hobbit/LotR are set in, not terribly wrong, but they are very young.

And dumb.

(I am inclined to think most teenagers are dumb because I was dumb then and so were all my friends and most people I knew. Didn't mean we were wrong, per say, just sort of stupid in our way of going about things)

Ficlet for Until You See The Light

"Nori..."

Nori knows what Dwalin needs to hear. He knows he needs to put the blade down, needs to stop twirling it through his fingers. He's scaring Dwalin.

He hates scaring Dwalin, so he hands the knife over, handle to Dwalin. 

Dwalin takes it, and comes to him, kissing his temple. "My love, it will be all right, I swear, whatever it is."

He wants to believe him. He does. "Ori is bearing."

Now Dwalin pulls Nori in close, lets him hide in Dwalin's bulk, lets him feel safe as he begins to cry, not for the first time since he's learned. He cries, and rages against Dwalin's chest, until his throat aches and his chest is tight. He had not cried in front of Ori, too afraid he would cause Ori undue stress, that he would harm this one too. He had done his best then.