I just made the mistake of re-reading Sansukh chapter 15 after reading a bunch of Silmarillion stuff and I am legit making high-pitched squeaking noises because GALADRIEL NOOOOoooooo (This fic will be the death of my feels)

WHOOPS *hugs*

SORRY NONNIE SORRY BOUT THAT

I’ve been questioning my gender a lot lately, mostly leaning towards being a boy, but I had run into this one rather big problem. I love my initials, like seriously adore because they do this special thing and I could not come up with a SINGLE FREAKING NAME that resonated with me but stared with a V. Not one. I am not kidding you not a single one sounded right to me. Until I read Sansûkh. I have checked, and checked and CHECKED elven names (a, because I’m a huge Tolkien dork and b, because my-)

II – second name is elvish already (yes my parents are also huge Tolkien dorks). I couldn’t find one. Not one felt quite right. Then I read Sansûkh. Admittedly it took me a few months before I realized there was one staring me in the freakin’ face this whole time! Silly me, I hadn’t even considered looking among the other races of Middle Earth. And that is the story of how you helped me discover the name I am now trying out, Víli. Thanks, really. Even if Víli didn’t have that particular name-
III – Sansûkh alone probably would have made me think to look among the dwarven daylight names. Ah, and this is a lot longer than I intended it to be. Anyway, thank you so much and sorry if you got this part already, my computer’s bugging.

*hugs* Glad I could help in any way, Nonnie. I wish you everything wonderful in the world! You’re awesome, Vili.

Headcanons about the dolls: Once all the stories are told and peace comes, dolls of literally everyone get made: there’s Faramir, Eowyn and Eomer, Theoden (and their horses), Treebeard and the Ents, Each wizard, Radagast and his rabbits and sled, Saruman (2 versions: one with white robes and another tye-died), the 2 Blue Wizards, there’s even one of Gandalf’s Shadowfax. Of elves like Elrond, Celeborn, Galadriel, Arwen, Elladan, Elrohir, Haldir, etc. (Part 1)

(Part 2) Laerophen eventually ends up with dolls of his brothers and father while in Erebor (Gimizh and the kids give them to him; they worry about their loved ones too and the dolls help them so they figure the dolls would help him too). He’s not quite sure what to do with them, but he keeps them anyway safe in his room and they go with him back to the Greenwood. Legolas eventually visits Erebor and gets them too, along with a Gimli, Tauriel, Fellowship set, and dolls of the friends he made.

(Part 3) Gandalf was given a doll of Bilbo by a dwarfling years ago and couldn’t refuse it. He secretly loves the dolls and has collected a doll of everyone he’s ever met since. He keeps them safe in Rivendell and takes them with them when he sails. (It’s a large chest that ends up holding them all.)

This is all SO cute, omfg. I can’t believe that a little detail in the fic has turned into such a lovely world-building thing, and that people are thinking up their own headcanons for it! *boggles and awwws*

(I AM TOTALLY STUCK ON TIE-DYED SARUMAN HELP HELP HE IS SO TUBULAR AND RAD)

looks at my planned writing Legolas, I’m sorry in advance but I am going to put you through literal hell. Also can I use your OCs? Please? Credit will be there, naturally.

Yeah, absolutely! Looking forward to reading it, Nonnie! 🙂

Is it possible that before Dagor Dagorath there was a great need of new Orcs and Goblins so the enemy captured elves and, as in days of old, tortured and twisted them until they became what he needed them to be? Is that even how Orcs are made or did I miss something big? (I’m jut asking out of curiosity and not because I’m planning a mega sad Arda remade fic, nope, not at all shoves notes under a desk while whistling)

Hey Nonnie!

I suppose it is possible! However, here’s a thought I had: Dagor Dagorath itself is meant to be the return of Melkor from beyond ‘the door of night’ ~~which frankly makes me think of one of those old lavvy doors with the crescent moon cut into it~~

sooooo, because all of his servants/cronies/hangers-on are p much defeated long before Melkor returns, I am not sure who it would be who was nicking Elves and twisting them. It would take a long long time to corrupt an Elf sufficiently enough to call them an Orc, I expect. And I don’t know that the newly-returned Melkor would have leisure, what with the whole Ragnarok business.

There’s also the notion that by Dagor Dagorath, all the Elves would have sailed for Aman (or dwindled and disappeared) and so would be under the Valar’s far more direct protection…? Eh.

IDK, those are only some ideas, and no doubt there is more to consider that I can’t think of rn and dun wanna research (I am being tired and grumbly tonight, don’t mind me). Still – don’t let anything I have blabbed about stop you! WRITE THAT DAGOR DAGORATH ANGST FIC, ALL THE ELVES-TO-ORCS, ALL THE TEARS, YESSSS, TO HECK WITH IT.

~~my kingdom for Morgoth being in the loo all that time, hahahaha~~

Headcanon: Dain 1’s craft was glassblowing. The Grey Mountains have a lot of the ingredients needed for fancy glass-work, and so something similar to Murano glass-work developed there. Forra has lots of very pretty glass jewelry (Hrera has a bunch too). Thorin learned a lot about flower language from Dain, because a lot of glass-work has flowers on it because that’s what people like to buy. Thorin’s workshop has flower-patterned candle-holders from Dain.

OH OH GOOD YES I LOVE IT

Dain I is definitely the sort of Dwarf to go in for glassblowing: the intricate, delicate dangerousness of it!

At some point, Bofur made nutcracker-versions of the now-famous Dwalin doll. Bilbo got one for Yule one year and laughed himself sick. The dolls are /especially/ scowly. Dis keeps one in her apartments and uses it regularly to get kids to eat green foods.

OH MY GOODNESS NONNIE, that is SO CUTE

Orla absolutely bought one. She absolutely did. She makes it ‘talk’ back at Dwalin, her face impassive as always but her eyes dancing.

(I can imagine Bilbo using his to unstopper particularly stubborn wine-bottles, ha)

Did Gimizh ever get that Gimli toy from Bombur from “little wild one?”

Yes, he did actually. It has red fuzzy woollen hair, a grey knitted mail-shirt, and a tiny little axe. Bombur even articulated the joints, so it can be posed. Toy-Gimli’s face is set in a big smile, and he has boots that can be taken off and put back on again! Gimizh ADORES it, and makes it sing naughty songs when his mother isn’t in earshot.

~~bet Gimizh is wishing he’d asked for a Bombur-doll now aha ouch~~