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once sansukh is done (i can’t believe it’s so close to being done!) do you think you would ever compile the fic & fanart into an ebook like they did with the shoebox project? bc i personally would love to be able to reread it all over & over even when i’m offline

oh wow um

well, the fic is already in several formats, you can get (art-free) pdfs here!

And I would LOVE to compile it all together into an ebook, with all the art and all the sidefics and everything, the sheet music, even the recipes. That would be ASTOUNDING. But it would be a hell of a job! 

I would have to ask every artist involved whether they wanted their art to be a part of the project, for instance. I never link or embed without permission. 

It’d take some time to do, Nonnie! I’m not ruling it out, though 🙂

(I KNOW, I can’t believe I’m so close… nearly four years later!)

I think the last anon just explained to me why I love sansukh and why I will carry it in my heart, like no other fanfiction every will: There is so much healing. You send hope out into the world.

oh my…

wow. just. oh my absolute wow.

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I had a whole lengthy and very personal sort of answer here and it’s just not even enough so I deleted it – even with all that context, even trying to say WHY it means so much, I still can’t put into words how much this affected me. 

I am honestly and ridiculously happy. And just so grateful. SO GRATEFUL That’s just the best thing ever to hear, and thank you SO much. SO much. 

hi im new and i just wanted to say thank you so much for your writing its really helping me through a tough time and sansukh is so beautiful and like im crying but its good and theres so much forgiveness and healing and thank you on a different happy note im obsessed with dwarrowdams and want to draw them all thank you

*hugs very tight, rocks you a bit* hey there, I am so sorry to hear that things are so rough for you right now. I hope that there’s calm and peace on your horizon, Nonnie. 

And I’m SO glad you like the story! Thank you so much, if it helps then I am doubly triply quadruply millionty glad. 

(AHH ME TOO, I AM ALL ABOUT DWARROWDAMS AND AAAAAHHHHH if i could only draw! So I settle for

creating a whole ton of them and then making a big ole Dwarfy dress :)))

What do you think Dagor Dagorath would be like? The aftermath? Tolkien didn’t give a lot of specifics but have you ever thought about what Middle Earth would be like after that last battle, or even shortly before it happened? It’s supposed to be a more perfect world with no pain or suffering, right? Or at least very little. Would people even die or become sick? I always wonder what kind of structure the world would take after it happened. Just wanted to hear your take on it, if you could.

Tolkien eventually abandoned the idea of Dagor Dagorath, apparently! But I like it as an apocalyptic prophecy anyway – bc prophecy as a concept in itself can be a tricky and twisty thing, even in a fantasy universe. We can’t be sure of how it will play out – we dunno much of anything about it, really. 

I honestly don’t know! I’d be thrilled to read a Dagor Dagorath fic, though. Everybody is BACK, and oh my goodness, that particular bitter ancient feud is still rather spicy, isn’t it. The leadup to the battle! Bickering! A million famous war-heroes and leaders, all trying to be in charge! Everybody having to work under the lead of the Valar – lmao, oh of course, and no Elf has ever disregarded what the Valar say, ever. /sarcasm

And Morgoth’s Extra Extra-ness, everywhere you look. Just him and his fortresses and his “got anything more gloomy or doomy?” naming schemes and his mega-monsters of gargantuan evillll and his AVALANCHES OF PETTINESS – because he MUST tear down the mountains again. bc Aule remade them, so naturally he does. Godlike toddler kicking down sandcastles much 

also he has a new rule, and it is No Elvish Singing Allowed.

(and no naptimes, either)

And afterwards, too! All those Dwarves busily rebuilding Arda, the Elves asking each other, ‘wtf you’re back? but weren’t you dead just last week?’ 

Meanwhile, Mandos regrets experimenting in prophecy. Now he’s out of a job.

hey dets, just finished my 10^nth sansukh reread and i thought i’d drop by and gush a bit. i would do anything for a leatherbound gold embossed copy of this fic. thank you for the incredible representation (especially from my part for the best ace/aro representation i’ve seen in anything, ever, fic or not) and thank you for your dedication to this amazing project. you’re the best.

OH NONNIE

it is my honour, truly. And holy shit yes, I would also love it as a book – gdi copyright!!! As long as we just keep it for ourselves and don’t sell it, we should be good tho 🙂

Fuck yeah, aroace representation! I love my aro and ace headcanons and characters, so damned much. ❤ So honoured and glad, Nonnie. Thank you SO much.

(10TH TIME??? REALLY???? *faints dead away*)

Just wanted to let your latinx dunedain and asian earendilion anon know: there are not purists everywhere! Most of Silm fandom is very gung-ho about racial diversity in fanart, to the point where it’s rare for any artist in the fandom to have a group of character designs where more than say, 1/3rd of them are white. Latinx and middle-eastern dunedain are the most popular racecasts for them, fingolfin+kids are usually drawn as black, and I’ve seen 15+ different asian elrond and luthien designs :)

I’ve seen that too! Hey Nonnie – check it out! Many wonderful works await! 😀

I tried few times already to ask you that, but I felt lost at words, maybe this time I’ll succeed. So, from the beginning : I have never been one to cry or depress easily, but lately I feel like I am in void. I have no one to talk to(my friends have their own lives), I am attracted to many genders and not still comfortable with it, living with very strict, Catholic family. I feel alone and sad. I wanted to ask… How do you deal with such things? How you make yourself believe that you matter?

Nonnie, you matter. You matter. YOU MATTER. 

If I were to hazard a guess, I’d say that this is totally depression talking, Nonnie. It’s not all crying – often it is a blankness, a nothingness, a meaninglessness… a sense of just drifting in time and space while life happens to everyone else. A “void”. This is EXACTLY the way my mental script plays out, right before I go into ‘hibernation mode’ and withdraw from the world. 

I get off the internet. I spend time with my family and friends, people who know ALL of me and truly care about me. I see a professional therapist. I am on medication, and probably will be for the rest of my life. I take on projects that I enjoy, such as composing, or sewing. I work with my students, teaching them to do a thing I love (music and singing). That’s how I manage. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn’t. 

I don’t know how to deal with your family situation, I am so sorry. But I am proud of you. You have a capacity for love that is simply wonderful and unique, and I hope you can feel comfortable with it one day soon – maybe even joy and pride yourself. 

I feel that your friends would most likely want to know that you are feeling so lost. Yeah, they have their own lives – but you are their FRIEND, and you matter to them. They’ll make as much space and time for you as they can, BECAUSE YOU ARE THEIR FRIEND AND YOU MATTER TO THEM. 

I feel as though you should see a professional for some help also. Don’t be afraid or ashamed to stretch your hands out to people, PLEASE. 

You matter, Nonnie. And you deserve care and friendship and companionship. You deserve to feel as though you are a part of the world and not just drifting through it. You deserve acceptance and love. You are a person, a wonderful real living complicated fabulous human person, right here and now, and you MATTER.