Okay, so I saw this post, and my brain exploded. Because I love Gimlas and I love Tolkien’s languages and combining them makes me very happy. So, have a two-part fic with sappy pining Gimlas, some family quarrels, and an eventual happy ending.
Sindarin translations are at the end. (If anyone has any corrections for my translations, please educate me! I’m getting better, but I’m still learning and I’m fairly sure I’m making at least a few mistakes. -whines- Grammar, why?)
Legolas
truly had not intended to make a habit of it. It had been an accident
at first, after the terror of not knowing where Gimli was during the
Battle of Helm’s Deep. On seeing the dwarf hale and whole, if a
little bloody, he had called out, too relieved and grateful and
joyous to still his tongue “Ai, Gimli, melethen, guren linna cened
ci mae!”
Gimli,
predictably, had rolled his eyes and fixed him with an impatient
stare. “Westron, blasted elf! You know I can’t understand your
fancy trilling. I should speak to you only in Khuzdul, and teach you
a lesson in civility!”
Laughing,
Legolas clapped a hand onto Gimli’s shoulder. “I am glad to see
you well, melethen.” He said, softer and more subdued, but no less
happy. Gimli eyed him from under his helm, then grinned behind his
beard and returned the sentiment. Well, most of the sentiment, but
Legolas didn’t care. As long as Gimli was alive, all was well.
While AO3 has a way to click to see notes at the end, this tutorial is how you can not only have your viewers click to view certain notes, but also click back to where they had been reading before. We don’t even need to use a workskin for this, but just an implementation of simple anchor links. So whether you have a lot of references in your work or just want to let your inner Pratchett* loose, this is how you do it.
I have made learning Renaissance and Early Modern poetry into a game: how many poems directly remind me of Sansukh, and how many of the rest can I make about Sansukh anyway? (A lot. A lot of them.)
Announcing a new short collaborative work! Art by fishfingersandscarves, text by myself, this is 1711 words of Sansukh angstiness broken up into 6 little one-shots, each with an accompanying picture.
BALIN AND OIN AND DIS AND DWERIS AND DAIN AND GIMRIS AND EDMUNDUR AND DORI AND VISIIIIII *heart slowly shatters* AUGH AUGH AUUUUUGH THIS IS SO AMAZING AND BEAUTIFUL AND REAL
I LOVE THIS I LOVE YOU
GO READ IT EVERYONE, GIVE THESE WONDERFUL FOLKS SOME LOVE COS
We’ve uploaded the first chapter of the podfic to A03 and the Audiofic Archive. You may find the links in the “Links” tab of the blog. Tell your friends. 🙂
Look at this family of nerds. What a bunch of loosers!
Will redraw it digitaly later, so please exuse the crappy phonecamera for now. >A>
SHRRRRIIIIIIIIEEEEEEKjsaljshfdlasjdfal!!!
THEIR HEIGHTS! YES! ANd omg the armour, the fact that Laerophen doesn’t wear it, but Laindawar DOES, and Legolas is in his forest garb and AH, the different face shapes, the different ways they hold their heads, it’s just so indicative of their personalities, you are amazing you did that so incredibly perfectly just inferring who they are through such subtle details I AM HOWLING I LOVE IT SO MUCH
Bilbo grew older, but barely showed it at all. He became a little reclusive as the years turned, and took to writing in his study more and more often. Thorin read over his shoulder. It never occurred to him that he shouldn’t.
Aw Yiss 