Tag: Anonymous

dets you are just one of the most wonderful sunshiny people around- i know you’re not really really in my life but you are still kind of this presence of bubbly joy and your laugh is super cute- just thank you for always being so lovely and sweet and loveable to everyone ☺️

jhgfkjaqiueryqiweq YOU ARE SO NIIIIIICE AHHH

Thank you so much! I am gonna have to go put my face in the fridge, oh my word!! Really, that is such a lovely lovely thing to say!

(ahhh you like my laugh ahhh *blushes even harder*)

Mandos and Aule sitting around chatting about all their dead tenants. Mandos keeps complaining about how Feanor keeps charring the carpets b/c he won’t hover his whole disembodied-flame thing high enough off the ground.

LOL, Valar having cathartic bitch-sessions over a drink (or nine, hahaha!)

“…won’t stop burning stuff, I swear to Eru, I’m going to have to resurface everything with fireproof material and install showers in all the ceilings.”

“Try gypsum, it’ll cut down on the damage. And ugh, I feel your pain, I’ve got one that trashes his room on a regular basis.”

“Don’t suppose you’d lend me some of your little guys? Resurfacing the whole of the Halls is going to take a lot of work….”

“Nah, they’re all watching Middle-Earth and taking bets on the outcome. They’re absolutely obsessed. Also, I’m not sure that adding Dwarves to the situation would cut down on all the uh, inflammatory incidents.”

“Fair point.”

But can you imagine the reactions of the elves in mandos to Legolas and Gimli? Like when Galadriel gives Gimli his gift and somewhere in Mandos Feanor is flipping the fuck OUT. (Oropher takes one look at Legolas and Gimli and has a an almost Thorin-style freak out)

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Feanor: …

She gave what-what-what to a what.

Everybody else: (uh-oh)

Feanor: 

Oropher: … my grandson is what-what a WHAT

everybody else: *whimpers* (oh help not again)

Oropher:

everybody else: (is it safe to come out now?)

Thingol: IS THAT A DWARF

everybody else: (oshit)

I really like the idea of – so, since elves do have to stay in mandos a little while before being reimbodied. Fëanor would be there. So, going off the other anon, every single elf reimbodied since Fëanor died have experienced Fëanor’s angry yelling *at least* once. (and, in the background, Maglor bangs his head against the wall while Maedhros eagerly demands the latest news of what Elrond’s gotten up to, what do you *mean* he had twin sons, this is great, finally he will know our pain)

LOLOLOLOLOL

Feanor – the Elves’ version of Cerberus. Love it!

(ohgod yes, Maedhros would be all *fold arms and sits back* SWEET SERENDIPITY BWAAHAHAHAH)

Balinith had a frog phase in his teens. Learned everything he could about them. Had a frog-patterned hat (green, stick-on eyes, stick-out red tongue), mittens (green, “pads” on fingers), and scarf (green, frog pattern) from Dori. Fell asleep muttering about frog facts. Still has a little book of frog drawings that he made during this period.

I don’t blame him: frogs are awesome. So many kinds! Poisonous ones, tree-dwelling ones, teeny tiny ones, colourful ones! So much to learn about, what an awesome special interest to have 🙂

(i bet Orla drew the line at frogspawn in the bath, though)

Sansukh has made me wonder: can elves watch those who are still living too? is there a star pool equivalent in the Halls of Mandos?? Bc on one hand: woah, sad feels everywhere! on the other hand: Feanor yelling angrily at EVERYONE. also would ghost!elves be able to see ghost!dwarves and vice versa or are there different levels of ghost?

Awww, Nonnie! Thank you! It’s such fun to consider this stuff, I hope you enjoy!

Actually, I am considering something quite different for Mandos. We know from Tolkien that because Elves are ‘tied to the world’ (can’t remember the exact phrasing rn) unlike most of the mortal races whose spirits move on to some place unknown, Elves’ spirits stay put and cannot leave except in exceptional circumstances. They are re-embodied after a time (most of them – not Feanor yet hahaha) and sent back to live in Aman. 

Unless you’re Glorfindel

So, I think??? I could be wrong idk – that this means that the majority of Elves who have lived in Middle-Earth are eventually re-embodied in Aman, and so would have to find a way of watching stuff going down from their cities there.

There is this cis, straight, white man from an upper middle class background who I work with, and every time someone says something he doesn’t like or doesn’t agree with, he says they’re ridiculous, or silly, or stupid, or emotional, or his favorite, irrational. Incidentally, the only other cis, straight, white man in our workplace is the boss, who never tells him to stop, or that he’s being inappropriate. When he acts up at work, if I can get away with it, I read your blog for comfort.

*hugs and hugs and hugs* Ahhhh, Nonnie – I feel for you so much right now!! People like that are just SO draining to be around, *hugs you some more*. I wish I could sit down with you with a glass of wine and you could just let it all out at me. It’s so tiring to fight constantly to be heard, and even more tiring to be angry and frustrated constantly – and then told you’re being irrational for being angry and frustrated. 

God, that’s the most dismissive and infuriating term: ‘irrational’. Because if he can dismiss what you are saying as ‘irrational’ just because he doesn’t like it, it means he is never forced to think about it. And so his bubble of hubris, ignorance and privilege remains unpopped. 

I am really, really glad that my blog can provide you an escape from that. I hope things improve for you at work. *more hugs* May he sit on a tack. And may your hard work be recognised by your boss, and you get an unexpected raise. *even more hugs*