serenbach86:

I really like the idea of dwarves thinking that the story of Bilbo and Thorin is The Most Romantic Thing Ever – after all, there is honour and battles and life-saving and near deathbed confessions and all that good stuff. I just really like the idea of lovesick young dwarves (even though a lot of dwarves are happy alone there has to be a few) looking at them and sighing because will they ever find some One who looks at them the way the king looks at his consort?

And I like the idea of when they retire to the Shire, the reaction is much the same from the hobbits (even if there is the occasional scandalised remark about dwarves and adventures) and heartsick young hobbits sometimes wonder if they’ll ever find someone who looks at them the way old Mister Baggins looks at his husband.

I just like the idea of them being obviously and soppily in love and happy to the end of their days, I guess.