There was a Thor comic where the young Thor meets a shield maiden who is as crazy as he is. She fights, drinks, and parties as hard as he does. They are happy together for many years, and then Loki comes along and asks Thor to go on a brief adventure. Thor and Loki go off for a few weeks and then return. But sly Loki knew that the realm they had gone to ran on a different time, and years had passed. Thor's love had died alone, waiting for him to return.

I'd be fine with the dwarf disappearing for 36 hours and forgetting I exist.

Reminds me of [William Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Adams_(samurai)) the first english Samurai. He had a wife and two kids at home in England, but got stranded in Japan in the 1600s after a shipwreck. He was not allowed to leave the country for a whole decade, but gained employment and trust from the emporer as an advisor. He did send money and letters home to his family using East India merchants, but they never saw him again and his wife died in the same year as he did, thousands of miles apart

Nobody ever accused Legolas and Gimli of being straight.

Ursula le'guinn wrote a novel with this premise!

Dwarf gonna carve the sides, not the strikeface which will get damaged and does it's job better when flat.

TIL I'm a dwarf

You'd probably like Vintage Story. So much time sculpting blocks.

I mean, I don't carve but I make things and get completely absorbed and lose track of time, then gain track back, ignore it and keep working

You are using subpar metals, brother. And the intricacy of their carvings will be delicate, nearly flat, so as not to disrupt functionality.

Except dwarves and elves hate each other in almost every lore

They said "a single" face so probably not the strikeface.

I mean, I might. In the books, they talk a great deal about their favorite elf women. None of it would be out of place for a gay couple with some bi tendencies - but it is enough that I wouldn't assume either is exclusively gay.

I remember Gimli talking about Galadriel, but who did Legolas talk about?

Ursula is okay, but here are a couple of broads who knock her for a loop. Joanna Russ was one of the first 'out' science fiction writers. If you want an adventure, try 'Picnic On Paradise.' Or get deeper with 'The Female Man' https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=joanna+russ Suzy Mckee Charnas. 'Walk To the End of the World' is 'The Handmaid's Tale' raised to an infinite power. After the War, the elites were locked in fallout shelters. Eventually the males decided that it was all the women's fault. Now centuries later, all the women are slaves. https://bookshop.org/beta-search?keywords=suzy+mckee+charnas

Neat! That sounded very similar to the character John Blackthorne from James Clavell's novel Shogun, and turns out that's who the character is based on.

The *Voices from the Past* youtube channel does a good job reading excerpts from his diary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keGQPzOd7lA

wow itd be like romeo and juliet

So like a regular married couple?