To Determamfidd ❤ I love your fanfiction so much! It is a great inspiration to me! ❤ ❤ ❤
I finally finished it! This is the accompanying art piece to the short ficlet entitled ‘Filit’. I might write/draw more about the interactions between these two as I find that they would be interesting. 🙂
determamfidd. legolas/gimli (gigolas is such an unfortunate name)
from the prompt:
Thranduil somehow sees Legolas with his shirt off and notices that his son has a tattoo on his chest, right over/near his heart. It’s a dwarven symbol with letters around it. When Thranduil looks it up, it turns out that it’s Gimli’s family crest, encircled by Gimli’s name. In Erebor, Gloin sees a similar tattoo over/near Gimli’s heart.
The tintinnabulation of bangles alerted Laindawar to the presence of her. That foreigner who sought out those in charge with a dogged passion.
The fact was Laindawar had been doing his best to avoid her for about a week and it vexed him to no end that she found him. It was as if she could sense where he was! Why wouldn’t this <i>Hisildi</i> take the hint? She was not wanted.
oh Laindawar, you little shit ilu. ❤ And your OC is so cool omfg AHHHH she is great i love her!! (and fab job on the Sindarin – I know it is so so hard!)
For @determamfidd‘s birthday. I was gonna record something new but I haven’t had the chance (or the voice I’m congested) to record anything so I dug up this one that I thought She’d like. Happy belated birthday Dets.
AHH OH MY GOD LACE’S SWEET RICH HONEY VOICE FOR MY BDAY?? I AM THE LUCKIEST POTATO IN TATERTOWN, AHHHH
*clings like a crazed koala* THANK YOU THANK YUO LACE!!!
Okay, so maybe the film guide says he was born in TA 87, but looking at clues from HOME and the Silmariilion, he’s at the very most a bit over 2000 years old at time of The Fellowship of the Ring. He’s the youngest elf that we know about in that time period. ARWEN is older than him. He’s creeped out by Fangorn being so old but he calls all mortals children because he’s a little shit.
Tolkien would get super pissed off when Legolas was shown in illustrations as “pretty or lady-like” and insisted that he was the biggest, roughest, toughest of the elves and the most hardcore of the Fellowship. Legolas is like the freaking Schwarzenegger of the elves, nbd.
Best friend is a dwarf whose father was literally imprisoned by Legolas’ father and yet he still brought him to the Undying Lands for the most awkward family reunion because screw you Thranduil. And let me remind you that a) Gimli is the only, only dwarf who got to make the trip and Legolas invited him. Other people had to get permission from like the literal Valar and Legolas was like I want to bring my mortal bff yeah he wasn’t a ringbearer but whatevs. Also b) most of the people who left in TA 3201 went on like these fleets of beautiful vessels with a master shipbuilder but Legolas was like nope, going to build one myself, never built one before but it can’t be that hard, right?
While Sindarin is the most common Elvish language by the time Legolas is alive, it’s considered really ugly and and unrefined, but here Legolas is running around probably not even able to speak the language of his ancestors, and I imagine him super proud of what must sound like an awful accent to his people.
Also super explains how useless he was at Moira trying to decipher the door because he doesn’t have time to deal with those snobs.
All the Fellowship got useful gifts or ones with spiritual meaning but instead Galadriel was like no, Legolas, I’m going to give you this big ass bow that’s bigger than the Mirkwood ones and it’s going to be so sick yeah it’s like taller than you are BUT ITS GOING TO LOOK SO SWEET.
are you telling me that Legolas is like… the baby gay dudebro redneck of the elves?
yes my friend, that is exactly what I am telling you
Do you ever read a fanfic that is just so good it just sticks with you into days or even weeks after you’ve read it. Like you could be sitting in class or alone in your room and suddenly you’re just like, wow, that was a really good fanfic. Like it was really good.
(passing it on, though: @culumacilinte, jsyk, this was literally me with ‘Strange and Uncomely’ (and the sequel too); @scarletjedi‘s work stays with me CONSTANTLY; and finally a shoutout to icarus_chained’s dieselpunk AU ‘Northern Babylon’, which sent me into an AU worldbuilding daydream that lasted MONTHS)
Aw Yiss 