Yo dets, a headcanon that I wanted to share with you. In the Glittering Caves, when Gimli and Co. start to gently chip away at the walls and rock, they come across one cave deeper than any of the others. Its empty, save two things. They’re smooth columns of rock, stretching from ceiling to the ground, one silver and the other gold. They were created by Aule before the marring of the world, and they are reminiscent of the Trees of Valinor. Gimli shows these to Legolas, who cries from joy and awe

ohgod that is goooorgeous, I love it!!

BUT WHAT IF Erebor was actually a volcano and that’s the real reason why Smaug wanted it for himself because it’s sooooo warm and he’s embarrassed to say so because he doesn’t want everyone to know that he’s basically just a giant cat. But he still killed all those dwarves and took their home so OF COURSE there will be other dwarves who’ll want to take it back jfc Smaug, I thought you had common sense. (mahal’s balls, that was lame. i’m so sorry, please ignore me)

LOLOLOL, awwww Nonnie! 

In which case, I admire the extreme ballsiness of Dwarves, for settling in a volcano in the first place!!

does this make Smaug the equivalent of the cat who sleeps on the laptop

With the Dwarrow-scholar update, do you think you will eventually update the Khuzdul in Sansûkh, or leave it as-is? Because I have to admit, I’ve grown very fond of many of the words your dwarves use so often, and it’d be strange to see them changed (oh, and I just realized that the Gimli – star thing, for example, would not work anymore either…)

Heya Nonnie!

Nope, I intend to leave the existing words as they are. 

Any new words and phrases will be in the new Khuzdul (which makes it a bit disjointed, I know I know I know SIGH) but the words that have already been established (such as inudoy, Kurdu, nadad, namad, etc) will remain as they are. 

(god, editing the whole thing would make me cry hot tears anyway, urgh – it’s so loooong)

out of curiosity, what are your NOTPs?

IT’S CUT TIME. (Sorry to those on mobile)

Okay, I have answered this before? But hell if can find it! And that’s bc I didn’t tag it or anything – nobody needs that noise.

So before I reply to this, please – if any of these are your ships please, this is not a personal attack on you. OR upon the things you ship. It simply is a list of the ships that I dislike. I’m sure you’ve got your own. Some of them might even be ships I love. That’s all awesome!

OKAY. Here we go. 

Kili/Legolas. (UUUUUUUGH I wrote it, urgh, must disinfect keyboard. I can’t bear the demonising and erasure of Tauriel in this ship. Like, seriously. I can ship Legolas with anybody – Haldir, Gimli, Eomer, Boromir, you name it – anyone EXCEPT Kili. It’s just. NO. So it’s him, aaaaand….)

Aralas. (*shudders* Again – ERASURE AND DEMONISATION AND/OR FRIDGING OF ARWEN EVERYWHERE. I just. I can’t ever read it again. She is amazing and I fucking adore her. So nope.)

Durincest. (anything incest, tbh. Can’t do it. There are survivors, real living people whom I love, in my life. Knowing the reality of incest really sucks all the ‘sexiness’ out of it.)

(It’s not a NOTP but it IS a dealbreaker for any fic I read: If it contains Evil! or Villain!Dain, I will back out of that fic so fast the backspace link will catch FIRE. I will also probably steer clear of all works by that same author. Once burned, etc etc. Also applies to ‘Dumb Goofy Gimli’ or ‘brutish fuckmonster Gimli’.)

*quick fandom jump* aaaaand last one…

Stony. (so, I love Science Boyfriends, I love Stucky, I love Pepperony, I love Dr. Pepperony, I love Steggy – but Stony? Brr, not for me, no thanks.)

AGAIN. If these are your ships, I am not judging or censuring you. Have fun! Ship away! But please tag em – I have everything blacklisted and tumblr-saviour’d to the max – and I’ll continue to tag mine, and we can all happily play in the ballpit together, me with my faves and you with yours. 🙂