This is somewhat of a modern AU spin-off on Chapter 5 of my story “A Thief’s Calling”; the scene in when Nori just stole the spoons back from Lobelia during Bilbo’s coming of age party, and gave them to Bilbo. chainelements wrote following comment to that: “For some reason, Nori shoving a handful of spoons at Bilbo remind me of a lover giving his date a bouquet of flowers”.
That was incidentally exactly what I had in mind writing the scene, but now that someone pointed it out I suddenly saw the entire thing in a sort of Grease (the musical) setting, and I absolutely had to write it. This is supposed to be a cute little something mostly for my own amusement and yours, so I will completely ignore period appropriate slang, behaviour and social norms. It’s just some world building and Nori being an adorable dork. …show more content…
He currently works on fixing up the library to reopen it at some point. It’s not that books aren’t valued, just that before him everyone was busy fixing the previous major’s mess, so no one had quite the time or finances to do it.
I couldn't not include the last sentence XD It's my little head-canon for this spin-off that Dori is instantly hooked on the polite little thing that is Bilbo, Ori loves everyone who gives him sweets and makes one of his brothers smile, and Nori will need three more dates to stop blushing every time he sees Bilbo, and will never be able to look at spoons the same way again.
It’s also Bilbo who discovers Dwalin and Nori basically suffer the same plight in form of a best friend with a crush on someone they believe out of their league, and makes them join forces to finally free the whole town from the epic pinning. Some will claim the sappy romance that replaces the pinning is worse, but it’s really only in jest. Nori’s jail time at least drastically decreases from them on. This particular spin-off won't be continued. I really just wanted to do the scene about Nori giving Bilbo a bouquet of spoons
That was incidentally exactly what I had in mind writing the scene, but now that someone pointed it out I suddenly saw the entire thing in a sort of Grease (the musical) setting, and I absolutely had to write it. This is supposed to be a cute little something mostly for my own amusement and yours, so I will completely ignore period appropriate slang, behaviour and social norms. It’s just some world building and Nori being an adorable dork. …show more content…
He currently works on fixing up the library to reopen it at some point. It’s not that books aren’t valued, just that before him everyone was busy fixing the previous major’s mess, so no one had quite the time or finances to do it.
I couldn't not include the last sentence XD It's my little head-canon for this spin-off that Dori is instantly hooked on the polite little thing that is Bilbo, Ori loves everyone who gives him sweets and makes one of his brothers smile, and Nori will need three more dates to stop blushing every time he sees Bilbo, and will never be able to look at spoons the same way again.
It’s also Bilbo who discovers Dwalin and Nori basically suffer the same plight in form of a best friend with a crush on someone they believe out of their league, and makes them join forces to finally free the whole town from the epic pinning. Some will claim the sappy romance that replaces the pinning is worse, but it’s really only in jest. Nori’s jail time at least drastically decreases from them on. This particular spin-off won't be continued. I really just wanted to do the scene about Nori giving Bilbo a bouquet of spoons