and if you don't know who Dis is, just think "dwarf princess"

Today's Hobbit art rec post might require a bit of lead-in, since this is a character that doesn't appear in the books or the movie. Compelling!

Today's theme is Dis, younger sister of Thorin Oakenshield and mother of Fili and Kili. (And if you pause and think about it for a second, you promptly realize that she basically has the worst life ever.) She is the only dwarf woman to be named in all of Tolkien and the only place that she appears (unless I've missed something from the books I haven't read) is in the RotK appendices. So from that alone, she is awesome, and for a character that never appears, there is a surprising amount of art featuring her. ( Also let us stack up the dead men in her life by the end of The Hobbit. )

Because she doesn't appear in the books or the movie, there's no real consensus on her appearance, though there's quite a bit of art done that makes her look like a genderswapped Thorin. Two previous rec sets have had her in them, here and here.

Dis by kaetiegaard
Dis by kannibal
Dis and Fili by megatruh
Dis and her men by hvit-ravn
Princess Dis by flatbear

Oh, hey, I have enough Dis art left that I can do another Dis set.