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How do you calculate the dwarves ages? It always stumps me when I’m trying to write anything to do with them (although hobbits and elves aren’t much easier), but I don’t want to mess it up.

Ohboy, do you mean in comparison to the ages of humans? Because there is no commonly accepted comparison for Dwarven aging. Tolkien never really gives us a decisive answer! 

So, I have written about this before, and explained how I am using their ages in Sansukh. But there isn’t really a ‘right’ or a ‘wrong’ way. This is only the way *I* am doing it. Other people may have different ideas!

(Short answer = I am making it so that Dwarves ‘come of age’ at 70, but may be physically mature – if not mentally – much earlier. They have an extended period of vigorous adulthood which lasts a great deal longer than that of Men. They are very enduring and tough, and do not become frail in their old age as do other races. Then they most probably crumble quite swiftly at the end of their lifespan – at approximately 250-270 years.)

Do you think Maglor is still alive near the end of the third age, and if so do you think the lotr characters would have ever met him? how would that have gone?? (oh man. how would Gimli meeting Feanor have gone. Forgetting to eat while arguing about which way of cutting gems is prettier?)

Ooooh, gosh. I don’t know. I really don’t, Nonnie. Part of me wants to say ‘YES MAGLOR LIIIIIVES;’ and the other part wants to say ‘that boy, he is SO DEAD.”

(plus, if he’s dead, the possibility exists that he mooched around in Mandos for a while and then was re-embodied in Aman. HUZZAH)

So, I notice how chapters of Sansukh get successively longer and more detailed… D’you think you’ll ever go back and rewrite and extend the early chapters? (runs away with the speed of Bombur)

Uh, very likely not! I’m sorry if that’s something you’d prefer, Nonnie. 

But tbh I want to get the story finished!

What’s written is written, it’s out there now. Plus, I am really loath to change anything about the earlier chapters now that they are being used to script the podfic. It’d make everything just wayyyyy too complicated. 

If I want to fix anything, I will simply have to learn to live with it!

(I am thinking of it as a crescendo – it starts small AND GETS BIGGER AND BIGGER, hee!)

What were the company’s families thinking, watching the quest? Were Fundin and Groin arguing over whose sons were better at killing goblins? Zhori wishing she could knock Dori and Nori’s heads together? I imagine it could have been a very frustrating experience, watching that journey.

Yes, VERY frustrating, Nonnie! It’d take too long to cover absolutely everything – there are a lot of moments during the quest that would affect different parents more than others, for example, and to detail them all would be exhausting. So here’s some brief overviews of how they acted for the majority of the time.

Fundin and Groin TOTALLY argued. Fundin and Groin ALWAYS argue. Unless someone attacks them/their loved ones. Then they turn it all onto that person like a spotlight, hahaha! BETTER RUN, THE SONS OF FARIN ARE COMING.

(aaaaand Fundin won that particular time. Well, it’s Dwalin. Awesome as Oin and Gloin are, Dwalin is sorta a one-Dwarf army!)

Dweris and Haban watched their boys with approval. And their husbands with exasperation. Who were the children here? URGH.

Zhori watched with annoyance, mostly, her lips pursed. Silly boys. And who is doing Ori’s hair these days, tcch. He looks like a mushroom!

Genna and Bomfur were very proud. Their lads were doing a good thing. (though Genna worries a bit). And they passed the time by commenting on everything and making off-colour jokes.

Nain and Daeris were tense. Oh dear Mahal, no. Not another battle, not another bloody summons. Family reunions are not exactly that family’s forte.

Bomris was quiet and worried, her hands wringing. Kifur was hopeful, and tried to reassure her.

Vili watched with a mixture of pride, irritation, and desperate concern. Pair of little terrors. Good shot, that’s my boy! OH, you pair of ragamuffins. Oooh, nice move. Your mother would skin you for that! No – no, pay attention to – oh, now you’ve done it. Stop being so much like me and keep your mind on the job, are you trying to get yourself killed?

Thrain and Fris, of course, worried constantly. But under that worry lay a tiny thread of desperate hope: will Thorin succeed where we all failed?

Hrera reminds me a bit of Queen Clarice from Princess Diaries (the movies, not the books). Just how graceful and always in control she is, even when everything is falling to pieces…I don’t know, she just reminds me of her. (Of course, that would also bring Thorin, Frerin, and Dis into the roles of Mia…which is pretty funny.)

(aaaaaanother film I haven’t seen! God, I am an ignoramus when it comes to SO many pieces of entertainment, seriously. Mr Dets nearly had hysterics when he realised that I had never seen Ghostbusters. He has since rectified that!)

Hi Dets! I’m having a lot of Sansûkh feelings today and I wanted to thank you for this fic. It’s gorgeous and marvelous and the representation means so much to me, I was so happy when I found out Merilin <3 And I was wondering.. what would you think about a lithsexual/lithromantic character?

*hugs you* Thank you, Nonnie. I am thrilled you enjoy the story.

I have very long-term plans for Merilin! We will be seeing much, much more of her. 

Hmmm, I haven’t currently got any plans for an akio- or  lithsexual/lithromantic character – but dangit, let’s fix that! 

Okay, making stuff up on the go again, but here’s a possibility: I actually think that Frerin is most likely lithromantic & lithsexual. He is very content to admire from afar, but has no real desire to act upon his attraction. 

And now that I come to think of it, I think Laindawar is most likely lithsexual as well. Huzzah for more ace-spectrum characters! Thank you for pointing this out to me, Nonnie – it’s wonderful to add more depth to these people and this world.

I love how you cast the dwarves for the HP houses. I think Dori could be a Hufflepuff too, though. The most important thing to him is his brothers, after all. Still, I think you nailed them all!

Yeah, Dori is another one that could be either house, to my mind! I actually wavered over him for a while: Badger or Lion, Badger or Lion… But then I thought, well, Molly Weasley was a Gryffindor… so! But as I said, I was only blabbing my own ideas, they’re ABSOLUTELY not law or anything 🙂

Glad you enjoyed them, Nonnie ❤