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hey, i wanted ask if you had any accents/ voice headcannons for any of your characters? even canon characters? (seeing as you’ve given them so much more… character than others have ;))

OOOH GOSH, WHAT AN AMAZING QUESTION.

honestly, thanks to the efforts of the amazing Sansukh podfic, I now hear the most delicious multicultural mix of accents when I think of these characters.

For example? Dis, to me, has a warm American accent. This is totally @grimminsanity‘s fault. 

(I ADORE YOU AND YOUR GORGEOUS MITHRIL VOICE, GRIMM – even though you make me cry. a lot)

And it is the same for all the cast members. I now write dialogue for the fic with their distinct voices in mind. I do the same for the narration too, knowing that the gorgeous tones of @fuckthisimgoingtoerebor will give it life.

As for characters that HAVEN’T been cast, well… I kind of hear all of them in my own accent still. It’s the one I use in my thoughts, after all! However, I’d be interested to hear what other people think of when they read that character’s dialogue!

(Specifically, though I DO hc Jeri as having an Australian – or perhaps Kiwi – accent, very broad and ocker. Heh.)

im also drunk and i also love you!!! and i think you should do what YOU want with the chapter and fuck anyone who says else. i love your writing n your music and youre great and awesome!! i love the sneak peek n im looking forward to orla n thorin stonehelm n gimli being wonderful and eloquent and smart and blowing thranduils small mind!!! i love you!!

Thank you, Nonnie *hugs* I’m just a bit irritated atm. I keep getting pushy ‘suggestions’ in my inbox about what I “should” write, and I’m over it. It’s been happening for months. MONTHS. Totally sucks the wind out of my sails.

I’m glad you like it! Awwwwww, and I love you back – have a FAB night, have a drink for me! *raises glass* Cheers!

You said that dwarves choose their One, right? And you’re very good at showing the gender/sexually spectrum, but given the whole concept of “one love,” I was wondering if it’s possible for dwarves to have multiple loves? Multiple “ones,” at once?

(I’ve answered this before, Nonnie. Try here, and here!)

And yes, as far as I’m concerned. To quote that last answer, “what Prof T says is: Dwarves fall in love once, and if it isn’t reciprocated they devote their lives to their crafts. What Prof T doesn’t say: Whether they fall in love with one person at a time. Fall in love once – okay, gotcha – but nothing says that love must be for one individual alone.”

could i have a hug, please? im just feeling really down and tired and i kinda just want it all to not

Oh Nonnie. Absolutely. Here we go, I’ll try and evoke one for you in words. It’s real and it’s on it’s way to you, via the magic of the internet.

Nonnie, it’ll be a very warm, gentle-but-solid hug. I am a smol and squirmy type of person, so it is sort of like hugging a bony-but-affectionate cat. One hand can be rubbing your back reassuringly. My arms are short and noodly, but very strong, and I can hold you tight – not too tight, but firmly. I want to hug you, and I can show it.

I can sing a bit, softly in your ear, just for you. Or I can stroke your hair. Either way, and whatever you need. 

It can go on for as long as you like. You can fall asleep on me, I don’t mind. 

Ready? Here it is.

*HUGS*

Hey! I was just wondering, you wonderful, beautiful, and downright inspiring person, what are your favorite books (including fanfic)? I really adore your writing, and in order to become a great writer and hopefully become like you someday, I’ve got to read like a madwoman!! Thank you!! *hugs* (P.S. If you don’t have the time, what about favorite writing tips?)

omg okay, this is actually – both of these are really hard to answer, for me! 

Here’s all my fic recs for LOTR (Gigolas and Bagginshield). 

It’s easier for me to name authors, rather than books. Because I tend to fall in love with the way a person writes, as well as the story they tell, and the two become conflated in my weird head somehow 🙂

Notable fanfic authors whose works I ADORE include @elenothar, @scarletjedi, @poplitealqueen, @emilianadarling, @culumacilinte, @yubiwamonogatari, @salviag, @themarchrabbit, @bgtea, @alkjira, @avelera, @lindzz, @notanightlight, @diemarysues, @urbanspaceman, @bigmamag – and honestly this is only the tinest and most partial list, bc there are so SO many wonderful authors and works out there.

On AO3, I adore icarus-chained, enigmaticblue (THIS AUTHOR IS MY FAVE SCIENCE BROS/DR PEPPERONY AUTHOR), thehoyden, keelywolfe, astolat, winterhill, rageprufrock, waldorph, versaphile, and ohhelpme so many more.

Published authors include Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Ursula Le Guin, Diana Wynne Jones, Guy Gavriel Kay, John Birmingham (read Leviathan if you want to see how history and people shape a place, and vice versa), Jasper Fforde, Robin Hobb, China Mieville, TE White, CS Lewis (OF COURSE), Ben Elton, Neil Gaiman, Jonathan Safran Foer, Christopher Koch (Highways to a War was a formative read for me), GRRM, Vikram Seth, Alexandre Dumas, Joseph Heller, Spike Milligan, Agatha Christie, HG Wells, Gregory David Roberts…

… I have a LOT of books. A LOT of books. My house doesn’t need insulation: every room is covered in bookshelves, basically! I’ve chosen mostly fantasty/sci fi authors here, assuming that that is what you are into, Nonnie. 

Poets I love: Edna St Vincent Millay, Emily Dickinson, Seamus Heaney.

eep Nonnie, I am occasionally asked for advice, but tbh I don’t feel like I am up to the challenge. I try to rise to the occasion, but I feel that advice is an odd sort of beast: sometimes a tip from a reputed writerly-type source will work for you, and sometimes it doesn’t. I suspect it is because we are all different people, with different minds and ways of succeeding. So idk, maybe try them all out: read all the advice out there, there are so many blogs, so many forums. I read the advice sometimes too, and sometimes it is the opposite of helpful for me – but sometimes it is great. 

So, there we go, a list of awesome authors for you! But this is a tiny, tiny drop in the ocean of all the work out there. I began hiding in the school library during lunchtimes when I was 8 years old, and I think I left a part of me there – or found it, pressed amongst all those pages.