I AM SCREAMING CONSTANTLY JSYK – LIVEBLOG BENEATH THE CUT
AHHAHDGLAJHDGLJAHD NOTA PLAYING HARP??? PLAYING HARP!!! PLAYING HAAAARP
GRIIIM YOUR VOICE YOUR SILVERY STEEL VOICE KAJHDGKAJGHDA
hakira YOU ARE THE CUTEST GLOIN THAT EVER GLOINED, NONE CAN GLOIN AS CUTELY AS YOU. LSAKDJFHALJSDFA YOU STAR
YEAAAAAAH WE SING LIKE BADASSES YEAH WE DOOOOOO
CULLY YOUR VOICE REMAINS THE SEXIEST FUCKING THING ON EARTH
NOTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAa!!!!!!!
holy shit bombur you are the most adorable, I’d marry you 10x
ALRIS! ALRIS! *SHOUTS TO THE SKIES* ALRISSS! SHIT YEAH, YOU SWEET THING, T’ERINA YOU ARE THE BEST!
Jon, my king. You are without fail able to break my heart. You are amazing. AMAZING.
BOFURRRRRR <33333333
Damn Ricky and HD, the SOUNDSCAPING is INCREDIBLE
(NOTA AND CULLY ARE MY FAVE SIBLINGS EVER BTW)
BILBO! BILBO!!!! WILL, HOW ARE YOU so PERFECT??????????
ohshit Thrain. Your TIMING. JuST. KILLED. ME.
THERIZA STOP MAKING ME FALL IN LOVE WITH BOFUR A ZILLION TIMES OVER 😉
ALSO BOMBUR AND ALRIS ARE THE CUTEST FAMILY IN THE UNIVERSE lsajdfghalsjhfglajh
ricky, your narration? IS SO GORGEOUSLY TIMED AND JUDGED, it slips in between and behind, paints the most perfect pictures, I have said it before but I am now and forever in AWE.
cully your DELIVERY HOLY SHIT I SNORTED LIKE A HORSE ‘Doesn’t your face get cold’ AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
will YOU SAID ALL THAT FOOD SO FAST, IT WAS THE FUNNIEST FUCKIGN THING I AM LAUGHING SO HARD
“would nobody stop touching the hobbit” OH MY GOD RICKY PERFECT PERFECT I ADORE YOU DEAR ONE
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LMAAAAAO NORI! bilbo you sneaky shit, Will this entire section was awesome, I am in awe of your comic timing!
bomBUR I LOVE YOU
“OH NO. OH NO NO NO NO” – BILBO… wtf HOW SO PERFECT???
i am gonna write a fic JUST OF GIMLI AND GIMRIS BICKERING bc you are both fucking AMAZING
fuck, just. Dis speaks and I WEEP
fuck FUCK AND BILBO AUGH
shit shit shit shit – and thorin. OUCH. ouch ouch augh FUCK bilbo
BILBO
BILBOOOOO
you SAID bilbo would destroy us, Ricky, and you were fucking RIGHT
thank FUCK FOR NOTA AND CULLY
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH BARIS!!! YOUR FIRST LINES AS BARIS?!
this is a goddamn tour-de-force, Will. Seriously. I am flattened by how good you are.
FucK JON. I CAN TASTE THE GRIEF AND ANGER AND GUILT. HOW DO YOU DO THAT.
AUGH IT’S OVER AND NOOOOO AUGH I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO MUCH, BTW. SO SO MUCH.
And yeah, Ricky: I promised I would! HERE IS THE LIVEBLOG RECORDING OF ME LISTENING TO THIS FOR THE FIRST TIME. I SQUEAK A LOT. A LOT. ALSO I CRY. AND LAUGH. AND THERE IS A LOT OF ‘HOLY SHIT’ and ‘OHSHIT’ so language warning, I guess.
(i had to split it in half bc Dwarfling didn’t want to go to sleep, and I had to go check on her. speaking of which, here is the recording of her debut in podficcing lmao – I am so glad, she had such fun playing with the mic and headphones!)
I LOVE YOU ALL. SO FUCKING MUCH. YOU ARE SUCH MITHRIL-PLATED STARS. ALL MY THANKS TO YOU, EVERY ONE OF YOU – but most especially baris, HD, Nota and Ricky. You are incredible.
(btw if anyone has read all this flailing and hasn’t gone to listen to this??? WTF GO LISTEN TO IT! IT’S AMAZING!!!)
They’d have to pass through not one, but TWO metaphysical barriers. There’s the wall between the living and the dead, of course. But there’s also the mists between Aman and Middle-Earth that separate the Blessed Realm from the ‘real world’ and keep it apart and inaccessible.
Hell, it’s hard enough for the spirits of the dead dwarves to make it there!
This is just an silly/odd idea, but I like to think that if a dwarf deliberately dropped something into Gimlin-zaram (say, a hammer, or a pen?), it would immediately sink without trace beneath the glowing water. No other change or sign to show its passing.
The next time that dwarf saw Mahal, that hammer or pen would be in His great hand, and he would give off a slight air of mild annoyance. He would give it back with pointedly deliberate movements.
“Please refrain from littering, my child. Please use the bins provided.”
The idea of Mahal somehow gathering litter is hilarious, but this is now making me question far too many things. Like what happens if you tie a string to the pen and lower it into the waters? Does the string snap when the pen disappears from sight or would it just keep feeding into the waters until you have no string left? Is there a bottom to the pool?
Could one pull the pen back up from the pool by the string if it did stay intact?
Could one theoretically swim in the pool? Like if instead of sitting on a bench and staring into the pool, you just jumped into it? Has anyone done that? Would your clothes get wet if you did somehow manage? What would happen if you dropped the pen while you were someplace on Middle Earth? Could someone else from the Hall find the pen later if they went to the exact same spot or does the pen disappear once it’s no longer touching a dead dwarf and Mahal has a dead dwarf litter radar and is going to have to go find this pen because you can’t just leave afterlife pens lying around on Middle Earth. That’s how you break the barrier between the living and dead, children. Could Gandalf pick up the pen and use it or can he only look but not touch? Does he send Mahal a message via god wifi to pick up this pen that Thorin dropped in Bilbo’s room because someone’s going to trip over it and cause a zombie uprising?
I’m going to go to the store before I start wondering about cross dimensional travel and death in the Tolkien universe and whether there’s like invisible litter all over Middle Earth from a bunch of dead dwarves.
WHAT IS YOUR GENDER: Pretty Pink Ribbon HOW DO YOU FEEL: Mahna Mahna IF YOU COULD GO ANYWHERE: The Distance MODE OF TRANSPORTATION: Long Line of Cars YOUR BEST FRIEND: Short Skirt/Long Jacket FAVORITE PART OF THE DAY: Commissioning a Symphony in C IF YOUR LIFE WAS A TV SHOW: Opera Singer (or possibly Extroverted Introvert 🙂 RELATIONSHIP STATUS: Love You Madly YOUR FEAR: You’re Never There AND Comfort Eagle
It’s a a sweeping fic in the lotr/hobbit fandom that retells the story from right after Thorin’s death all the way through the events of the trilogy (with more to come following). The breadth of this story is matched by its depth. It fills in missing spaces, like all of the women from the line of Durin, what happens during the War in the North, and quite or over looked scenes following the Fellowship.
And I really have stayed up developing and chatting about fantheories about this fanfic with several other people!
It really lends itself to it because it likes to dig into the cultures which just makes you itch to keep expanding it! And it has dozens of original characters that fit so well into the narrative that you forget they aren’t canon! (I frequently forget that there isn’t a canonical mother for Gimli, for example.) They are full characters of all different backgrounds, genders, orientations, and there are even some non-neurotypical characters which all makes me beyond happy. And the best part? They feel natural. They are balanced. And it feels like they are there because naturally people like them would be there.
I can’t recommend it enough, and if you haven’t read it, I would definitely suggest doing so!
They’d have to pass through not one, but TWO metaphysical barriers. There’s the wall between the living and the dead, of course. But there’s also the mists between Aman and Middle-Earth that separate the Blessed Realm from the ‘real world’ and keep it apart and inaccessible.
Hell, it’s hard enough for the spirits of the dead dwarves to make it there!
This is just an silly/odd idea, but I like to think that if a dwarf deliberately dropped something into Gimlin-zaram (say, a hammer, or a pen?), it would immediately sink without trace beneath the glowing water. No other change or sign to show its passing.
The next time that dwarf saw Mahal, that hammer or pen would be in His great hand, and he would give off a slight air of mild annoyance. He would give it back with pointedly deliberate movements.
“Please refrain from littering, my child. Please use the bins provided.”
Aw Yiss 