Hey Nonnie, I’m glad you like my writing, that’s very kind of you to say.
It sounds like you know exactly the fic you want, and you have some ideas and your premise already. So why not try writing it yourself? I’m pretty burned out on Canon Au, after this monstrous behemoth of a story.
I am honestly very happy that you enjoy my writing, and thank you for saying so.
We made a NEW CRACKED SHOW about QUIETLY AWESOME THINGS! Special thanks to Miki Matteson, @abeepp, Christina Newhall, Dustin Parsons, and my mom.
HEY: if you’d like to see a future episode of Everything Boring Is Awesomeabout a particular subject, lemme know! I’m open to suggestions. Please e-mail suggestions to: alex [dot] schmidt [at] cracked [dot] com.
As someone who is…intimately familiar with this particular subject matter and the industry, let me tell you that all that hoity-toity stuff is surface-level only and that classical music has always been nuts and filled with murderers (looking at you, Gesualdo), druggies (Berlioz…) and all kinds of nutball people (Stockhausen and his Helicopter Quartet, which is literally a string quartet played in four separate helicopters in the air I mean honestly, Karlheinz).
I like both 🙂 I hold the books very dear to my heart, though I use a lot of stuff from the films also!
Like, there’s stuff that is purely from the movies alone that I really, REALLY LOVE. In the book, Thorin has a long white beard he can tuck into his belt… so yep, I rather like the movie ideas there. Distinguishing the Company from each other and giving them all such distinctive stories and characters was also fab. I love the film addition of Tauriel. Smaug was awesome. Loved how chilly and poised Thranduil was.
(I am less sold on Super 8-Bit Legolas though. And I am honestly very annoyed that they took Dain’s young life and moment of badassery, and basically cut-and-pasted it onto Thorin.)
The team behind the films really DID do yonks and yonks of research! which makes the decision to put giant earthworms into the battle of Five Armies even more inexplicable to me
And the detail and thought and love and craft which goes into the costuming and crafting and miniatures and god, EVERYTHING that is created for these films is simply astounding.
I have to admit, though, even with all the incredible detail and extra characterisation the films have given to us, when held at knifepoint I would have to admit that I do prefer the book. It’s been a friend since I was seven.
(oh, and also – the book has Dori carrying a moaning Bilbo around on his back like a sad Hobbit-Backpack for at least four chapters, what is not to love about that)
YEAH HABAN AND NARVI ❤ huffy impatient genius and her bestie, the savvy, shrewd businesswoman ftw.
Oooooh dang – well, Narvi’s family exist, but they are Sir Not-Appearing-In-This-Fic. However, the awesome @christmashippo has given Narvi a whole family, including siblings! And they are brilliant, so you should go check out Hippo’s Narvi tag 🙂
The Kili and Narvi Elf Appreciation Club and Drinking Society is so, SO definitely a thing. Damn, now I wanna write a one-shot about that!
It’s just the two of them, drinking and saying ‘EARS, RIGHT?’ and ‘LEGS. FOR. DAYS.’ and ‘did yours do the thing with the staring and no-blinking too?’ and sighing a lot. There is most definitely also bitching, lots of bitching.
They routinely bicker over who is president of the Society. According to Narvi, she was appreciating Elves first. According to Kili, the Club was his idea.
(Azaghal is an honourary member for life death. Gimli has been added in-absentia, also )
Aw Yiss 