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Anonymous asked:

According to Alan Davis, it was actually editor Dave Thorpe who came up with the number Earth-616, not Alan Moore. Moore and Davis co-wrote the comic that first used the term, so it's anyone's guess who's telling the truth, but I trust Davis since Moore has been known to bend the truth in his recollections.

brevoortformspring answered:

Alan typically has a good memory for these sorts of things, so if that’s his account, I’d believe it.

vitruvian23

Interesting that he doesn’t say *which* Alan…

peoriarhetoriapeoria

This is why when in doubt, make sure there is name overlap.

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thranduil sleeps calmer knowing even if his son married a dwarf at least he married The Supermodel dwarf and singlehandedly crushed the hopes of single dwarves and dwarrowdams everywhere

words-writ-in-starlight

this is my headcanon and you will never take it from me.

listen, just Listen for a second, okay.

Gimli Gloinul is from the line of Durin okay, he’s from the line of KINGS, his bloodline stands up against Legolas’ perfectly, if the elves and dwarves got their shit together for a hot second they would be like “YES, PERFECT, A DIPLOMATIC MARRIAGE TO BIND OUR HOUSES TOGETHER AND NEVER SHALL THE TWAIN THROW ONE ANOTHER TO DRAGONS…again.”  because you have a king’s son and a king’s nephew which, well, I love Dain but he’s not an EREBOR KING and GIMLI IS FROM THE FAMILY OF EREBOR KINGS.

And Gimli acts like he’s from the line of Erebor kings, too, okay, he’s a diplomat and a warrior and a nobleman, he’s the sort of person who SAYS things like ‘faithless is he who says fairwell when the road darkens’ and stares down Elrond Peredhil in his own home when his strength and faith are questioned.  And he’s the kind of person who swears his allegiance to people he barely knows because it’s Right and Good and Gimli knows it.

And Thorin Oakenshield was handsome, and his sister the lady Dis is beautiful, and Gimli’s cousins Fili and Kili were fine young dwarrows, and Gimli’s mother is a great beauty.

Basically my point here is that Gimli, proud strong gimli with his firebeard hair and bold laugh and mithril tongue and clever fingers, broke the hearts of everyone in Erebor and not a few people outside of Erebor when he married a goddamn elf.  Like.  Not even Arwen Undomiel (WHO MARRIED A GODDAMN HUMAN, it’s been a weird couple of years in Middle-Earth, everyone wonders strongly if they’ve been drinking too much).  Like he’s not even marrying a great beauty of the elves, Legolas isn’t ugly by elvish standards but also he’s nothing particularly special, and he’s not a great diplomat, and he’s BARELY a king’s son because everyone knows that Mirkwood elves are…a little odd.  Legolas is a big cheerful hunter who sings songs he doesn’t remember all of, who chatters to trees and has no sense of the right thing to say even if he’s developed enough self-preservation to know the wrong thing to say, and FOR THE LOVE OF MAHAL HE FIGHTS WITH A BOW.

“GIMLI” Gloin bellows “YOU TURNED DOWN THIRTY-TWO SUITORS FROM FINE DWARVISH LINES FOR THIS”

“Ignore him, amrâlime, he’ll get over it” Gimli says in amusement as he beckons Legolas over to his forge, where he’s carefully smithing mithril-inlaid gold marriage clasps that will grip fine elvish hair.  It’s too hot in the forge to wear shirts, if you’re working.  Every dwarf in twenty feet stops what they’re doing to watch Gimli’s biceps flex as he holds up a jewel for Legolas’ inspection.

“YOU COULD HAVE HAD A HAREM” Gloin wails from down the hall.

fozmeadows

#a headcanon I never knew I needed until this very moment

demad69

@deadcatwithaflamethrower

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This is like the perfect marriage of headcanon comic and headcanon ranting.

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Okay but is no-one going to talk about Thranduil being secretly pleased that his son’s marriage is giving the dwarves conniption fits? Because that’s the best part of this. “My son is marrying a dwarf?! The disgrace of it all- Wait what’s that you say? He’s the handsomest dwarf? The other dwarves are going spare over this? No one can understand why Gimli would fall for Legolas? … Well of course my son seduced the most eligible, richest bachelor in the land. As if anyone else stood a chance? Bitches get on our level.”

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lotrlocked

Legolas, local himbo, possible middle earth equivalent of ‘Florida Man’, married up.

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Gimli: You’re late to our wedding?

Legolas: Babe I’m sorry, there were like fifty dwarves I had to duel for your hand on the way here, there was nothing I could do

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