When you write Sansukh, do the characters have voices in your head? Are they the voices of actors from the movies? The cast of the podfic? Really curious about how those inner voices might influence your writing, I know it influences mine sometimes. When the characters have voices, they feel a bit more real and less like I’m controlling them.

A bit of all-of-the-above!

At first, I had the actors from the films for many of the characters – however, not ALL. I did not always hear JRD for Gimli, for instance… I ‘heard’ someone similar, but closer to how I’d imagined Gimli speaking when I first read the books way back in the 90′s. It was a mishmash of actor voices and my own internal ideas of how the character should sound. Not always coherent!

After the podfic came out, I began hearing Cully as Gimli, without fail. Cully of the golden tonsils, my star! @culumacilinte

I hear Ricky unfailingly for the narration nowadays, and I write the descriptions with their smooth, engaging, flexible honey voice in mind. @fuckthisimgoingtoerebor

I still hear Christopher Lee for Saruman and John Noble for Denethor, etc…

But I 300% hear @baruk-hashem for Thorin now, and not Richard Armitage. @poplitealqueen‘s adorable goddamn voice is Pippin to me, not Billy Boyd. @morvidra IS Fili to me, not Deano.

I cannot CANNOT hear myself as Mahal. Frankly, I hear a nonspecific deep boomy voice when I write him!

lesbiankiliel:

I think I’ll go have a drink too (just raspberry juice tho, there are only so many options when you don’t drink alcohol)
and I’m glad that Fíli missed it too, my boy didn’t need to see any of it

bagginshieldy air smooches are currently my fave thing 

(raspberry juice sounds DELISH, I’ve never had it… right now my juicer is my fave thing ever 🙂

i hope i “grow up” to be half as amazing and wonderful and kind as you!!!!

Nonnie, I dunno what I did to give anybody the impression that I’m anything other than an imperfect lil bean sprout struggling along in the world, just like everybody else. But you are super super kind and nice, thank you so much ❤

You are already amazing, and you don’t need to add years to your life or to become anything other than you are. Promise. You’re enough, and wonderful, right here and now.