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Hi!! I wanted to let you know that Sansûkh is the most awesome fic I ever read. Your work is brilliant and inspired me to write again. I just finished my first fic after ten years without writing. And I thank you because you are great and I want to write like you someday. Your characters are realistic and every time I close my eyes I can see your scenes playing in my head. Thank you for being the most awesome writer and the most kind person ever. Thank you for sharing your stories with us <3

dear god

*hugs* THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU wait a mo – *finds a box and a megaphone* THANK YOU SO SO SO SO MUCH YOU ARE SO INCREDIBLY KIND AND I AM SO TOTALLY BOWLED OVER 

I CANNOT EVEN DESCRIBE HOW MUCH 

Another reason why your writing is so good … so many people are 200% invested in you characters? Including all of the minor ones and OCs. Like, you have so much art and writing and caring. People care so much about you writing-babies! They’re cosplaying your OCs! Because you are. Just. That. Awesome! *puts flowers at your feet in awe*

i cannot compute, I am breaking down a bit here AUGH I AM AT WORK, I AM A BLUBBERY MESS AT WORK

*hugs tight* thank you, dear. Thank you and bless you. I am always just so grateful, and I can never thank everyone enough for giving all these new characters a chance. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. 

I really love your character development! People change in messy and ugly ways and you don’t sugar-coat it. Thorin throws a fit when he is finally confronted with overwhelming evidence, Thranduil is having his nose rubbed in his mistakes until he sees his wrongs. People often don’t just /change/ … you are so good at showing the impetus for people’s growth and development.

*SCREAMS* OH MY GOD THANK YOU, this is absolutely absolutely something I have been striving for, the whole fic long!!! CHANGE CAN BE HARD, it is different and weird for everyone, and people are messy!!! IT IS NEVER THE SAME, and god, it can be wonderful, and terrible, and quiet and noisy and soft and agonising, and dreadful – and WONDERFUL. LIKE

– Baris (stepping outside her comfort zone, fucking up in a horrifying way, and still getting up and steeling herself and trying again)
– Bilbo (learning to TRUST!!! TRUST, this secretive hobbit who mutters to himself and distrusts everything, who is full of suspicion and bluster and old pain!! HE IS SO UNWILLING TO TRUST – himself, Thorin, ANYONE – but he will, he does eventually)
– Gimli (gets the arrogance knocked out of him, learns to listen and not just decide he knows what is best, learns to see beyond his suspicion and his ingrained ideas, LIKE – HE ROARS AND SHOUTS AND ACTS LIKE A TWIT ABOUT ACCEPTING COMFORT FROM AN ELF, but in the end he does)
– Stonehelm (it takes a war and his dad’s DEATH and the shouldering of the responsibility for his entire people for him to finally see that he is no poor successor to his famous forebears, that he needn’t style himself after his heroes, he’s drowning in grief but he’s standing up and leading anyway, he DOES IT ANYWAY and god it hurts)
– Thranduil (BOOM-TISH HAHAHAHAHA)
– Laerophen (MORE BOOM-TISH)
– Thorin (THE WHOLE POINT. HE IS THE WHOLE DAMN POINT.)
– Bomfris (figuring out that she can be soft and loving and it doesn’t mean she is any less strong, making friends despite herself, refusing to become a ‘proper princess’ but still becoming a war-leader all while pregnant)
– Fili (letting go of anger and resentment and hero-worship, maturing under a terrible responsibility, watching people he cares for suffer and hating it but enduring it nevertheless, finding new ways to protect that don’t involve bristling with weapons lmao)
– Frerin (he is full of jealousy and fear, tbh, but he masters it over and over again, learns to be appreciative of his OWN skills instead of constantly comparing himself to his brother, learns not to hate his youthfulness but to find pride in it, begins to find joy in others, admits his fears at last when he finally explodes, learns to accept care as well as give it)
– Kili (secrecy SECRECY SECRECY ONLY MEANS YOU CARRY THINGS ALONE, you’re cared for little prince, you little TWIT, it is hard but you must open up the way you expect others to)
– Legolas (WAY MORE BOOM-TISH THAN CAN BE FITTED IN A SINGLE SUMMARY. WAY MORE.)
– so many more, gah – Aragorn, Eowyn, Eomer, Pippin, Bofur, Gandalf, SO MANY AHHH

I AM SO FULL OF JOY AT THIS, I am SO happy, I really am, your ask has given me golden wings, I am GONNA YODEL TO THE HEAVENS FOR AT LEAST AN HOUR. Thank you SO SO MUCH

Oh and besides the confusion about the Dol Guldur timeline — Chaper 40 is?? so amazing??? I HAD GOOSEBUMPS THE ENTIRE TIME. AND WEHN BILBO APPEARED OH MY GOD I THINK I SCREAMED THANK YOU DETS FOR ALL THIS AMAZINGNESS

AHHHH THANK YOU SO SO MUCH, oh god that chapter wrecked me while i was writing it – I’ve never been so ruined by doubt and nerves over my writing, it was the climax and augh how to make it different and new and yet keep that terror and fear and momentum when we all know? what’s going? to happen?? AHHHH

*hugs* THANK YOU SO SO MUCH, you’re absolutely wonderful and you’ve made my morning, this is just the greatest thing to read! THANK YOU!

Hello, I have a question! I read Ch40 just now, where Galadriel & co. destroy Dol Guldur. And the way it’s slotted into the rest of the story, it seems like in Sansûkh this happens on the same day that the Ring is destroyed so March 25th. But in a footnote you say “Thranduil and Celeborn met in the forest upon April 6” & the internet told my curious self that Dol Guldur was actually destroyed some days AFTER Sauron’s fall. Did you change that on purpose? I got a bit confused as to what day it is

The timing in that chapter is deliberately very hazy -very well spotted, though! Eagle eyes, you have! The book’s timing is weird when it comes to that period – there’s meant to be A COUPLE OF WEEKS between the fall of Sauron and the celebration at Cormallen, for example, but Tolkien skips it all in a paragraph. 

In the book, during those weeks, quite a LOT happens. We don’t see the cleanup after the battle. We don’t see the progression of the armies from the Black Gate to Cormallen. We don’t see the convalescence of Frodo and Sam. It’s quite literally a handful of paragraphs. 

(And then spends a page and a half describing Frodo and Sam’s walk from the tent, through the forests and along the stream and through the wood again and then through the army)

(I have bitched ENDLESSLY about this, ngl)

So, when it came to Dol Guldur, I decided to do the same, in order to keep the momentum and tension rolling. If I’d spent time detailing the days between, I feel like I would have lost too much of the urgency of the Ring War stuff as that conflict began to settle, and the Dol Guldur stuff would have been far too much a departure in tone. I really wanted the ‘aftermath’ stuff to come, well, after!!

That sneak peek! Dis! Thranduil being dragged kicking and screaming into character development! Vili! I just want to cuddle all of them and you. -sniffles-

Heeeeeeee, I am SO GLAD! Thank you, Nonnie! 

And yeah – Thranduil is absolutely resisting this new knowledge, he can’t find out ANYTHING terrible about Gimli – but he’s being forced to confront some of his own less-than-compassionate decisions heh. YOU’RE GONNA DEVELOP – WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, MISTER. :DD

Vili is such a goddamn sweetheart, I wanna hug him forever. And Dis needs all the love, god. So much love. 

Thank you for answering my ask! I don’t mind that my guesses are wrong, half of the fun of guessing is getting it wrong and then trying again. I’ll probably keep making mental guesses up until we actually find out who his friend is, but whether I’m right or not, it’s really fun :) Thank you for writing this fic, I love reading it (and re-reading it), especially when I’m feeling down.

*hugs* I LIKE SOME OF YOUR GUESSES SO MUCH THO, I may end up using them by the end! Laindawar could use some more friends, heh.

Thank YOU so much, for reading (and re-reading!!! AHHHH) and for being so generous and commenting and asking me stuff, you are a gem!

I feel like Laindawar and I would get on as I also have negative amounts of chill because I just graduated university and have no idea what I’m doing with my life but I’m hiding the pANIC under an icy layer of I Don’t Care – only another panic squasher would be able to see past the veil in my eyes and hear the constant internal screaming (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧

*hugs* YOU WILL MAKE IT. If I can suggest anything at all from my own uni experiences, just let things unroll for a bit. Don’t rush (like I did!!!), or you end up racing for a million things at once and sticking to none of them. You’ve got time. Uni is a crazy sort of world within a world, and you get exhausted and then you’re done and you’re expected to be INSTANTLY READY and *boom* success, yeah – it takes a while for it all to fall into place again after existing so long in a closed-ish environment with set expectations and rules and clear-cut deadlines and stuff. Don’t bother with forcing a sense of chill if it doesn’t help you! But yeah, that’s something that I keep in mind, underneath my customary post-degree panic 😀 

Laindawar would be proud of you, Graduating Nonnie. I am!