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Character Name: Ori
Canon: Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy
Canon Point: end of Desolation of Smaug
History: There isn’t a lot of canon on Ori’s backstory. As far as the general assumption goes, Ori and his two older brothers are all children of a whore, all with different fathers. Their mother died in childbirth while bearing Ori, and he was raised primarily by the eldest of the Ri brothers, Dori. While technically distantly related to the royal family of Durin, the Ri brothers cannot be found on any genealogy chart that has been produced. Likely they are distant cousins, a fact which is mostly overshadowed by their mother’s promiscuous lifestyle. Ori no doubt grew up very poor, and though he spent a good part of his childhood playing with the princes, Fili and Kili, his interests soon began to differ from theirs. Between book canon and the Peter Jackson movies, we can see that Ori doesn’t really show up anywhere until the quest. Along with his brothers Dori and Nori, as well as eleven others handpicked by the king, Thorin Oakenshield, himself, Ori embarks on a quest to regain the lost dwarf kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug. At the journey’s end, Ori survives the Battle of the Five Armies. Almost 50 years later, he accompanies Balin and several others on a journey to Moria, where their small kingdom thrives for only a few scant years. Ori dies there in Moria when an army of orcs overruns the underground kingdom.
As for the journey itself, here is a wiki link to An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug. Ori’s rather slim wiki page is found here.
Personality: Ori is, most of all, very shy. He keeps to himself, partially because he’s very different from the other dwarves. He is scrawnier than most of them and not perhaps as bawdy or rude. Polite and mild-mannered, he’s used to being told what to do. His eldest brother, Dori, who raised him near-singlehandedly, is incredibly overprotective when it comes to Ori. Because of this, it’s most likely that the only reason he allowed Ori to accompany them on the quest is because of Ori’s unusual skills for a dwarf. He is a scholar in training, more or less, and serves as the Company’s scribe, detailing their adventures in his journal.
Ori defers to everyone. He is the youngest on the quest, according to Peter Jackson’s movies (which is contradicted by Tolkien himself; he states that Fili and Kili are the youngest of the Company by a good 50 years, but I go off PJ’s version of Ori). Because of his age, and because of his inability to fit the traditional view of a “real dwarf”, Ori has a negative self-image and doesn’t like to speak out of turn. He believes that everyone else has more experience and therefore their knowledge is more important than his own, even though he is the most educated of the group, aside from perhaps Balin.
He doesn’t like to stand out. Ori is most comfortable lurking in the shadows. He’d rather not be noticed, likely because he’s afraid that he’ll do something wrong. He’s not a warrior like all the others, and his less than respectable parentage doesn’t help him much. It’s easy to assume that most of his life he was ignored by just about everyone except for his brothers, though the working theory is that the middle brother, Nori, was gone for most of Ori’s life. This lack of a strong family is perhaps why Ori is so insecure with himself. He doesn’t act like he’s comfortable in his own skin. In the beginning of the movie, there’s a scene where Ori asks Bilbo what he should do with his plate. While all the others are having a grand time, Ori finds an excuse to slip out and be with the more mild-mannered hobbit, whose temperament and behavior match Ori’s much better than that of the dwarves.
But while Ori has a rather fragile outward appearance, there are moments when he shows an astonishing amount of courage. Early in the movie after he’s had a few drinks, he stands up at the table. “I’m not afraid! I’ll give that dragon a taste of dwarvish iron right up his jacksie!” While this is no doubt partially induced by the amount of ale he’s imbibed, Ori does show a certain steely determination during a battle, as can be seen here (Ori is on the far left). Even with only a slingshot to defend himself, he doesn’t back down from a fight. He shows this once more when the dwarves are in Erebor fighting the dragon, Smaug. Ori doesn’t panic or freeze. He does what he’s told and plays an essential part in trapping Smaug in molten gold, as well as keeping the dragon from killing his friends. It’s obvious that he’s terrified, and yet, he fights on, with limited experience in weaponry. He doesn’t expect praise or recognition either. There’s an inner strength to him that could easily, in my opinion, make him the bravest of the dwarves.
Items on your character at canon point: slingshot, his sketchbook and charcoal, his journal with detailed notes on the quest thus far, a handful of braid beads
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: Generally, dwarves are stronger and sturdier than other races. Ori is a bit on the slight side for dwarves, but he’s tougher than he looks. He can handle intense weather easier than any of the other races, though he may not particularly enjoy it. As a race accustomed to living underground and working in mines, dwarves have a good sense of direction whilst underground as well as an excellent sense of time when they cannot see the sky. Dwarves are also less easily corrupted by evil, as seen by the dwarf lords given rings crafted by Sauron. While it increased their greed, they did not undergo a transformation like the Nazgul, who were once Men.
As a scribe, Ori knows several languages. He is fluent in the Common Tongue, also known as Westron, as well as the sacred language of the dwarves, Khuzdul, and the dwarvish sign language of Iglishmek. The dwarves typically use the Cirth alphabet, which Ori is very familiar in, though he also is an expert with the Tengwar alphabet, used more often by elves. It is likely that he has the ability to read some elvish scripts.
Ori is not exactly a warrior, though he’s accurate with a slingshot and usually carries a small knife with him that he’s fairly proficient with. At one point in the movie, he wields a borrowed warhammer, and is surprisingly good with it.
Ori is also an artist. According to statements made regarding the character, he has a talent at drawing and will oftentimes be found doing so. The book also states that Ori can play the flute.
I’ve mentioned many of his weaknesses in the personality section, so I’ll just touch on those once more. Ori is not a fighter in any sense of the word. He is a bit more fragile and slight than other dwarves, less armored and more emotional than them. His heart could be considered a weakness as well; he’s a good person that wants to help others and rarely thinks of himself. He could easily be lured into some kind of trap using someone close to him as bait. Ori has a negative self-image and doesn’t value his own life worth much at all.
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“It’s just a rock with her name on it, Dori. She isn’t really there.”
Nori was complaining again, just like he always did when forced to accompany his eldest brother. Ori kept quiet as usual, walking down the stone steps behind his brothers to visit their mother’s tomb.
“You hush your mouth,” Dori snapped, clearly having had quite enough of it. “She is your mother and you can show her some respect.”
Nori snorted and fell silent as they finally came to a halt beside the resting place where they had laid their mother. It was a stone shelf, a name engraved in stone there. It was just her usename, not her proper, dwarvish name, but it was something. Ori gingerly traced the runes with a finger, not looking at either one of his brothers.
“She was just a whore,” Nori mumbled under his breath.
Dori snapped, punching Nori square in the mouth. Ori sighed. It was impossible to have his two brothers in the same room, let alone at their mother’s resting place, and he finally took this chance to raise his voice.
“Please,” he said softly, looking pleadingly at the two of them. “Not in front of Mother.”
It was too late; Nori had already turned on his heel and stalked off, nursing his bleeding mouth. Dori took off after him, muttering about disrespect for the dead, and Ori was left alone in the quiet catacombs.
It was hardly the first time he’d been down here on his own. He’d been visiting his mother since he was very small, just to tell her about his day. Ori had never known her; she’d died giving birth to him and there was never a father in the picture for any of the brothers. And while Ori loved Dori very much, he felt more often than not that Mother was the only one who really listened to him.
Letting out a soft sigh, Ori sat down on the ground, pulling his overly large robes a bit tighter around him to defend himself from the chill of the catacombs.
“I’m sorry you had to see that,” Ori told his mother, looking down at the ground. “Nori doesn’t really mean it, you know. He gets so angry sometimes...but he cares. Deep down, he cares. A-and he misses you an awful lot.”
He had spoken to her many times about his brothers, how Nori was always in trouble and Dori tried so hard to keep their broken family together. They had long since fallen apart, but Dori still tried. It was admirable, really. Ori thought highly of his brother for what he did. It was just that some things simply couldn’t be fixed. Still, he supposed.
“I won’t be able to visit for a while,” he said after a long pause. “The king is leading a quest to reclaim Erebor and...we’re all going. All three of us.”
Ori imagined the questioning, worried response that his mother would give and replied to it. “All of Nori’s crimes will be exonerated for going, and...I wanted to...show everyone that I’m capable of doing something. Dori is a good brother, and he takes care of me, but…” he lets out a soft sigh. “I-I don’t think he knows that I’m not a dwarfling anymore. I-I’m a scribe, a good one, and a historian, and...well, someone ought to document a quest like this, don’t you think?”
He liked to think she would smile and agree with him at that. “Anyway, King Thorin has already given his consent. Dori insisted on coming too. That’s just like him.” Ori smiled softly to himself. “Fili and Kili will be going as well. Poor Gimli is beside himself, he’s so upset. He wants to come too, but Gloin won’t have it.”
Ori looked down, folding his hands in his lap. “I wish you were here,” he murmured. “It would be nice to have someone to...to...come home to.” He shook his head, brushing himself off as he stood up.
“I should go make sure Dori hasn’t killed Nori.” Ori leaned against the stone, forehead touching the cool smooth surface lightly. “Goodbye, Mama.”
Player name: Theta
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Character Information
Character Name: Ori
Canon: Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit Trilogy
Canon Point: end of Desolation of Smaug
History: There isn’t a lot of canon on Ori’s backstory. As far as the general assumption goes, Ori and his two older brothers are all children of a whore, all with different fathers. Their mother died in childbirth while bearing Ori, and he was raised primarily by the eldest of the Ri brothers, Dori. While technically distantly related to the royal family of Durin, the Ri brothers cannot be found on any genealogy chart that has been produced. Likely they are distant cousins, a fact which is mostly overshadowed by their mother’s promiscuous lifestyle. Ori no doubt grew up very poor, and though he spent a good part of his childhood playing with the princes, Fili and Kili, his interests soon began to differ from theirs. Between book canon and the Peter Jackson movies, we can see that Ori doesn’t really show up anywhere until the quest. Along with his brothers Dori and Nori, as well as eleven others handpicked by the king, Thorin Oakenshield, himself, Ori embarks on a quest to regain the lost dwarf kingdom of Erebor from the dragon Smaug. At the journey’s end, Ori survives the Battle of the Five Armies. Almost 50 years later, he accompanies Balin and several others on a journey to Moria, where their small kingdom thrives for only a few scant years. Ori dies there in Moria when an army of orcs overruns the underground kingdom.
As for the journey itself, here is a wiki link to An Unexpected Journey and The Desolation of Smaug. Ori’s rather slim wiki page is found here.
Personality: Ori is, most of all, very shy. He keeps to himself, partially because he’s very different from the other dwarves. He is scrawnier than most of them and not perhaps as bawdy or rude. Polite and mild-mannered, he’s used to being told what to do. His eldest brother, Dori, who raised him near-singlehandedly, is incredibly overprotective when it comes to Ori. Because of this, it’s most likely that the only reason he allowed Ori to accompany them on the quest is because of Ori’s unusual skills for a dwarf. He is a scholar in training, more or less, and serves as the Company’s scribe, detailing their adventures in his journal.
Ori defers to everyone. He is the youngest on the quest, according to Peter Jackson’s movies (which is contradicted by Tolkien himself; he states that Fili and Kili are the youngest of the Company by a good 50 years, but I go off PJ’s version of Ori). Because of his age, and because of his inability to fit the traditional view of a “real dwarf”, Ori has a negative self-image and doesn’t like to speak out of turn. He believes that everyone else has more experience and therefore their knowledge is more important than his own, even though he is the most educated of the group, aside from perhaps Balin.
He doesn’t like to stand out. Ori is most comfortable lurking in the shadows. He’d rather not be noticed, likely because he’s afraid that he’ll do something wrong. He’s not a warrior like all the others, and his less than respectable parentage doesn’t help him much. It’s easy to assume that most of his life he was ignored by just about everyone except for his brothers, though the working theory is that the middle brother, Nori, was gone for most of Ori’s life. This lack of a strong family is perhaps why Ori is so insecure with himself. He doesn’t act like he’s comfortable in his own skin. In the beginning of the movie, there’s a scene where Ori asks Bilbo what he should do with his plate. While all the others are having a grand time, Ori finds an excuse to slip out and be with the more mild-mannered hobbit, whose temperament and behavior match Ori’s much better than that of the dwarves.
But while Ori has a rather fragile outward appearance, there are moments when he shows an astonishing amount of courage. Early in the movie after he’s had a few drinks, he stands up at the table. “I’m not afraid! I’ll give that dragon a taste of dwarvish iron right up his jacksie!” While this is no doubt partially induced by the amount of ale he’s imbibed, Ori does show a certain steely determination during a battle, as can be seen here (Ori is on the far left). Even with only a slingshot to defend himself, he doesn’t back down from a fight. He shows this once more when the dwarves are in Erebor fighting the dragon, Smaug. Ori doesn’t panic or freeze. He does what he’s told and plays an essential part in trapping Smaug in molten gold, as well as keeping the dragon from killing his friends. It’s obvious that he’s terrified, and yet, he fights on, with limited experience in weaponry. He doesn’t expect praise or recognition either. There’s an inner strength to him that could easily, in my opinion, make him the bravest of the dwarves.
Items on your character at canon point: slingshot, his sketchbook and charcoal, his journal with detailed notes on the quest thus far, a handful of braid beads
Abilities, Strengths and Weaknesses: Generally, dwarves are stronger and sturdier than other races. Ori is a bit on the slight side for dwarves, but he’s tougher than he looks. He can handle intense weather easier than any of the other races, though he may not particularly enjoy it. As a race accustomed to living underground and working in mines, dwarves have a good sense of direction whilst underground as well as an excellent sense of time when they cannot see the sky. Dwarves are also less easily corrupted by evil, as seen by the dwarf lords given rings crafted by Sauron. While it increased their greed, they did not undergo a transformation like the Nazgul, who were once Men.
As a scribe, Ori knows several languages. He is fluent in the Common Tongue, also known as Westron, as well as the sacred language of the dwarves, Khuzdul, and the dwarvish sign language of Iglishmek. The dwarves typically use the Cirth alphabet, which Ori is very familiar in, though he also is an expert with the Tengwar alphabet, used more often by elves. It is likely that he has the ability to read some elvish scripts.
Ori is not exactly a warrior, though he’s accurate with a slingshot and usually carries a small knife with him that he’s fairly proficient with. At one point in the movie, he wields a borrowed warhammer, and is surprisingly good with it.
Ori is also an artist. According to statements made regarding the character, he has a talent at drawing and will oftentimes be found doing so. The book also states that Ori can play the flute.
I’ve mentioned many of his weaknesses in the personality section, so I’ll just touch on those once more. Ori is not a fighter in any sense of the word. He is a bit more fragile and slight than other dwarves, less armored and more emotional than them. His heart could be considered a weakness as well; he’s a good person that wants to help others and rarely thinks of himself. He could easily be lured into some kind of trap using someone close to him as bait. Ori has a negative self-image and doesn’t value his own life worth much at all.
Samples
Network/Action Spam Sample: link to the test drive meme
Prose Log Sample:
“It’s just a rock with her name on it, Dori. She isn’t really there.”
Nori was complaining again, just like he always did when forced to accompany his eldest brother. Ori kept quiet as usual, walking down the stone steps behind his brothers to visit their mother’s tomb.
“You hush your mouth,” Dori snapped, clearly having had quite enough of it. “She is your mother and you can show her some respect.”
Nori snorted and fell silent as they finally came to a halt beside the resting place where they had laid their mother. It was a stone shelf, a name engraved in stone there. It was just her usename, not her proper, dwarvish name, but it was something. Ori gingerly traced the runes with a finger, not looking at either one of his brothers.
“She was just a whore,” Nori mumbled under his breath.
Dori snapped, punching Nori square in the mouth. Ori sighed. It was impossible to have his two brothers in the same room, let alone at their mother’s resting place, and he finally took this chance to raise his voice.
“Please,” he said softly, looking pleadingly at the two of them. “Not in front of Mother.”
It was too late; Nori had already turned on his heel and stalked off, nursing his bleeding mouth. Dori took off after him, muttering about disrespect for the dead, and Ori was left alone in the quiet catacombs.
It was hardly the first time he’d been down here on his own. He’d been visiting his mother since he was very small, just to tell her about his day. Ori had never known her; she’d died giving birth to him and there was never a father in the picture for any of the brothers. And while Ori loved Dori very much, he felt more often than not that Mother was the only one who really listened to him.
Letting out a soft sigh, Ori sat down on the ground, pulling his overly large robes a bit tighter around him to defend himself from the chill of the catacombs.
“I’m sorry you had to see that,” Ori told his mother, looking down at the ground. “Nori doesn’t really mean it, you know. He gets so angry sometimes...but he cares. Deep down, he cares. A-and he misses you an awful lot.”
He had spoken to her many times about his brothers, how Nori was always in trouble and Dori tried so hard to keep their broken family together. They had long since fallen apart, but Dori still tried. It was admirable, really. Ori thought highly of his brother for what he did. It was just that some things simply couldn’t be fixed. Still, he supposed.
“I won’t be able to visit for a while,” he said after a long pause. “The king is leading a quest to reclaim Erebor and...we’re all going. All three of us.”
Ori imagined the questioning, worried response that his mother would give and replied to it. “All of Nori’s crimes will be exonerated for going, and...I wanted to...show everyone that I’m capable of doing something. Dori is a good brother, and he takes care of me, but…” he lets out a soft sigh. “I-I don’t think he knows that I’m not a dwarfling anymore. I-I’m a scribe, a good one, and a historian, and...well, someone ought to document a quest like this, don’t you think?”
He liked to think she would smile and agree with him at that. “Anyway, King Thorin has already given his consent. Dori insisted on coming too. That’s just like him.” Ori smiled softly to himself. “Fili and Kili will be going as well. Poor Gimli is beside himself, he’s so upset. He wants to come too, but Gloin won’t have it.”
Ori looked down, folding his hands in his lap. “I wish you were here,” he murmured. “It would be nice to have someone to...to...come home to.” He shook his head, brushing himself off as he stood up.
“I should go make sure Dori hasn’t killed Nori.” Ori leaned against the stone, forehead touching the cool smooth surface lightly. “Goodbye, Mama.”
