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Oh look.
I haven't terrified anyone with my borderline-canon female dwarves in a while!


Here's a sketch of my take on Dís, sister to Thorin, mother to Fili and Kili. Experimenting with giving her tattoos. They are supposed to say stuff in Khuzdul, but I don't quite know what they would say, nor do I speak it.

"For the Naugrim have beards from the beginning of their lives, male and female alike; nor indeed can their womenkind be discerned by those of other race, be it in feature or in gait or in voice, nor in any wise save this: that they go not to war, and seldom save at direst need issue from their deep bowers and halls. It is said, also, that their womenkind are few, and that save their kings and chieftains few Dwarves ever wed; wherefore their race multiplied slowly and now is dwindling."