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wait, dets, sorry to bother you with trivial questions, but when does Gimli realize that Legolas is his One? will you reveal that later in the story or would you be willing to tell us now? Thank you so much for Sansukh btw, I’m rereading it and just fangirling over how wonderful it is. Seriously you have wonderful talent as a writer. You have a truly amazing story.

Awwwwwwww *blushes like the sun* Thank you! I am so happy you are enjoying it! 

Welp, we are going to hear that from Gimli (very soon, in fact!) in the story itself, so I won’t go into too much detail here. BUT, in the scene in Chapter 30, in the tent upon Dunharrow, Gimli tells Thorin that he has ‘known the other half of me since the Mahal-cursed river!’ 

Angry and defensive Dwarf is angry and defensive, in other shocking news water rumoured to be wet

So, Gimli is referring to their little boat-ride on Anduin, after their reconciliation in Lothlorien. That’s when he first knew he was developing feelings of a slightly squishy nature for the pointy-eared princeling. 

With the dead dwarf peanut gallery, were any of them watching when Bilbo said goodbye to the dwarves of Erebor and the ‘To me he was…’ scene? Did any of the dead dwarves see it? And if they did what were their reactions to that?

I honestly don’t know. Most of Thorin’s family were, at the time, rather preoccupied with the very angry, very guilt-ridden, PTSD -riddled, very dead former King that had joined them, after all!

When I wrote that scene, also, it was LONG before even DOS had come out. And so I used the book-lines, rather than the eventual movie-lines: “Farewell, Thorin Oakenshield! And Fili and Kili! May your memory never fade!”

May I ask you a question? None of my friends would debate it with me, and my family had similar reactions, so I can’t talk to them about it either. In the books, Sam says a few times that he loves Frodo. I can’t remember it word for word, my cousin still hasn’t given my books back, but I always wondered how you interpreted that. I like to think of it as the ultimate friendship, but sometimes I consider it romantically too though, even though he marries Rosie. Is that okay?

Hey there, Nonnie. Certainly you may! 

Every single interpretation of that relationship is totally okay. You’re FAR from the only person to consider Frodo and Sam as a romantic pair! 

Myself, I think they’re the most queerplatonic Hobbits who ever queerplatonic’d. Here’s where I’ve talked about this before 🙂

hello! first i want to say that i am absolutely in love with your fic, its just incredible and i appreciate it so much! Anyway, i just wanted to ask where you got all of your Khuzdul translations, is there a website you could recommend? i am trying to write a fic myself and i am struggling to find any really good Khuzdul/Sindarin etc. translations. your help would be much appreciated :)

Thank you, Nonnie! And no problems! 

Okay, well – the Dwarrow Scholar is THE resource for Khuzdul. Check out the ‘Free Khuzdul Lessons’ header – everything you need is under that link!

Here is a list of resources, including the Sindarin sites, that I use. 

If dwarves are born with their dark names embedded in them, specially given to them by Mahal, is it therefore possible for nobody else to ever know the kherumel of a dwarf (for whatever reason maybe they had no one they wanted to tell it to)? I.e., unless and until a dwarf tells others, nobody knows? are parents/family able to force a kid to reveal it?

In my little headspace, it would be the grossest abuse to force a child to give you their dark-name. The most appalling, the most horrible abuse of trust. To do so makes you everything a Dwarf should not be. An un-Dwarf, basically. Exile would be the kindest thing to happen to you.

(sorta-kinda-maybe related: the Petty-Dwarves, a smaller variant of Dwarven people, were said to use their secret names openly (Silmarillion). The Petty-Dwarves were suggested to be normal Dwarves who were exiled from Dwarf society, possibly for some nameless crime. We don’t know. They all died out in the First Age. We do know that the Elves hunted the Petty-Dwarves for sport until they finally realised that they were sentient, though jeez seriously Elves ‘wisest beings’ yeah right wtf)

In Sansukh’s universe, it’s very common for a parent or parents to be the first one/s to hear their child’s Dark-Name. It’s about trust and openness and vulnerability. Their child feels safe and loved. And so, in a moment of sheer tender magic, the child tells their parents what is written into their bones, what words surge in their blood. It’s a moment that new parents long for and dream about: the highest and most sacred loving honour they can receive.

However, that’s not true of all Dwarves. There are (thankfully very rare) crappy Dwarven parents whose children cannot ever feel that perfect safety and trust needed. They would never want to give their parent such a huge part of them. These Dwarves would keep their Kherumel to themselves. 

I also think that some of the higher beings can see what is written into each Dwarf with such love in Mahal’s handwriting. So: Gandalf, Sauron, Saruman. Gandalf has better manners than to blurt it out, though. Saruman would probably use it to manipulate.

Sauron uses it to attack. It is obscene that he attacks each Dwarf (through the Ring) using that special, sacred name, the very heart of them. That is the most disgusting and profane and horrible thing he could possibly do.