to think Thorin Oakenshield is WAY WAY hotter than Aragorn?

[IwantaPetFox]

As played by Richard Armitage and Viggo Mortensen respectively.

I don't think Thorin would even be that much shorter than me

[PretzelTime]

I've found the original designs for Thorin and company:
art-of-the-dwarves.tumblr.com/post/40313010097/from-left-to-right-fili-thorin-kili-balin
More true to the book, but it's understandable why they change it

[SupermassiveLBD]

Richard Armitage is HOT!

Welcome to our world, BBBS!

[Blablablacksheep]

Hi ladies, i've just come back to ms after a long break.
Richard Armitage is HOT!
How could I've not noticed him earlier?

[CastingNasturtiums]

I know hattie, I was all at those pictures side by side!

[hattymattie]

OK ladies on Thorin Oakenshield's FB page - (which I have liked by the way). There is a photo of Thorin next to Boromir. I have to say Sean is just gorgeous yum yum - I want to blow that photo up poster size .

[HoratiaWinwood]

I luff the lady dwarves. They make me feel good about myself, their worthy queen.

[PretzelTime]

Haha yes. He is so modern!

[IwantaPetFox]

Sorry Pretzel, once I realised Thorin was on Facebook I had to read his entire page

[AutumnMadness]

Iwanta, goodness me, I am thinking unholy thoughts about poor Fili and Kili now.

Pretzel, I rather like the dwarf ladies! Am pleasantly surprised. I wonder how much time they spend doing their hair. But this applies equally to the men. Except Thorin, of course, whose raven locks just fall about him so artfully in a fully natural way.

[PretzelTime]

No comments on the ladee dwarves?

[PretzelTime]

Check this out! Official dwarf women concepts! Unimpressive beards, but I like the fab one with blue lipstick.

www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=385138174908323&set=pb.191879797567496.-2207520000.1357854683&type=3&theater

[IwantaPetFox]

And Autumn I'm pretty sure female dwarves have beards. I think you're the sexist one for assuming they were men. Maybe they were all females? Except Thorin, OBVIOUSLY.

[IwantaPetFox]

Remus I am with you on Jack Sparrow and Russell Brand! Beautiful men :)

[hattymattie]

ooh lady englefield I just read the thread properly and saw you were a kindred spirit in the Arthur of the Britons department. Can't believe we both wrote the same thing;

[DoodlesNoodles]

Do I have to choose?

I suppose Aragorn wins but only just.

[PretzelTime]

I prefer captain Barbossa over Jack Sparrow...IDK why

[SupermassiveLBD]

Ew, Cap'n Sparrow has a weird appeal but Russell Brand is taking the dirty hairy meme a touch too far.

[AutumnMadness]

Good lord, Remus, what have you been smoking tonight?

[RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie]

Nobody has mentioned Raven yet, if we're talking of hairy and slightly dirty looking men. And of course, Jack Sparrow. Russell Brand anyone? :)

[AutumnMadness]

Super, it's true! I read it on Wikipedia! (and in the massive appendices to the LofR, which I all read, but a long time ago).

[AutumnMadness]

Yeah, but in my twisted mind, Tolkien did not make the dwarves and the rest of the Middle Earth + Valinor up. He just writes about them like a historian or an ethnographer. Sick, I know.

[SupermassiveLBD]

The parody seriously rocks. Did anyone else hear Sir ian's voice in their head as they read it?

Talking of female dwarves, what are these Betty Butterbuttocks rumours, Mr A?

[PretzelTime]

That's Tolkien's fault I think, not the dwarves...

[AutumnMadness]

The only thing that worries me, ladies, is that the dwarves might be rather sexist. The annals of the dwarves mention only one woman - Dis - and only because she was Fili and Kili's mum. Hot but sexist . . .

[TheSmallPrint]

@ the parody. Sniggering away here.