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What kind of dogs would the different races of middle earth have? Lord of the rings needs more dogs.

Laketown is Pugtown, this we know 😀

Erm. I think Elves would have hunting dogs, most likely: maybe not big packs of pursuers such as beagles, but certainly retrievers, pointers and birding dogs! They had Huan, after all, that we know of, and he was a hunting hound. Hunting dogs make sense with Elven choice of weaponry and lifestyle, also. 

I feel like Hobbits would go in for the big packs; the more the merrier. Farmer Maggot had his dogs, Grip, Fang and Wolf, who were intimidating dogs that he would threaten to sic on people found stealing his mushrooms. But the dogs were actually big softies who wouldn’t harm anybody. They were trained only to scare thieves, not hurt them. They were so effective at this, in fact, that Frodo was still afraid of them thirty years after his youthful mushroom-rustling misadventures 🙂

I feel like sniffers/truffle hunters would also be highly prized by Hobbits. Because FOOD. Also sheepdogs. They would LOVE smart, intuitive, sheepdogs. Oh. So. Much. 

idk about Dwarves! Perhaps burrowers or ratters? I feel like they would admire the go-get-em spirit of terriers. Also, a lot of Dwarf settlements seem to end up by rivers/the sea: perhaps they like water-dogs and fishing dogs such as spaniels! Which would be sorta awesome. 

I wonder if it was the ancient Numenoreans who bred the fancy show dogs. It feels like the sort of thing the Numenoreans might do. Their mutt descendants might still be sniffing around Gondor, the carefully-purebred traits and characteristics all but erased. 

There’s some ideas, Nonnie! Hope you like em.

Hey Dets! This is a PSA to say that you are awesome and amazing and fantastic and that we (your readers) love you! Even if you make us cry sometimes! I am in awe of your writing, and songwriting, and composing, and singing, and of you as a person. The Iron Hills to me is just magnificent even if it makes me cry half of the time. So this is just a little message from a grateful reader: you are amazing and I can’t thank you enough for sharing your words with us <3

Thanks, lovely Nonnie. I am esp. glad you like my music. I get a bit down about that sometimes! It’s a lot of work for not much payoff. 

But I keep on keeping on, because I love it. 🙂

And YOU are an epically kind person, who deserves all the hugs. Thank you. 

Could a dwarf ever find their One in the halls of Mahal? I know that sort of happens with Ori and Bifur, but they knew each other while they were alive. What about two dwarves who lived hundreds of years apart? Mostly I’m curious about what that would be like, but I’m also specifically remembering Zhori being so unlucky in love during her lifetime.

Yeah, totally! Dwarves can fall in love in the Halls, and it doesn’t matter whether they knew each other in life or not. That has no bearing on the connections they make in the Halls.

It takes a LOT longer, though, because of the enormous emotional intertia of the Halls. They make things slooooooow dooooooown – which is awesome for healing, because it gives you time to process things! But a little less brilliant for grappling with attraction, I am guessing. 

Talk about the slowest of slow burns, heh

Do you have any songs that really remind you of Sansukh and Lotr in general? Bands in particular that give you a vibe for the dwarves, that kind of thing?

Not really songs, or bands, per se. I tend to write the music I want to hear for the Dwarves and for Sansukh myself, lmao. This could be bc I am a giant glutton for punishment

out of the stuff I have written, the most ‘Sansukh-ish’ ones are Light on the Horizon, and In Western Lands (Sam’s Song). 

The most especially Dwarvish one is ‘The Iron Hills For Me’ – which surprises absolutely nobody, I am sure :)… but also the Broadbeam Cradle-Song, and Gimli’s Jig. 

I have had headcanony thoughts about Dwarven music before, though! Here is a big ole post about it. 

Out of curiosity, do you write or headcanon Legolas as autistic? I noticed some of my own tendencies of confusion and strange lacks of shame in your writings of him.

I hadn’t! I tend to explicitly state all the representation I have put into the fic, so that there’s no erm… Dumbledoring.*

But what a great interpretation, I love it! Nonnie, if autistic!Legolas is what you see, then it’s as valid a reading as any other. 

I’m now reminded of a quote from Boojum!: “Still, if words mean more than we mean to express when we use them, and if there are some good meanings in the book, I’m very glad to accept them.”

So, if there’s anything in the story that works for you, I’m very glad to accept it 🙂

*by this, I mean any minority representation that is not openly stated in the text itself, but is added as an afterthought through word-of-author. Like Dumbledore

Hey dets this is kinda personal but I hope you don’t mind. Anyway I’m asexual and usually avoid any media with sexual content, But there are a few authors I’ll read Absolutely Anything they write regardless and you’re one of them; I gotta get the Complete Sansûkh story. I love it. “Sansûkh” has actually entered itself into my autocorrect suggestions. I hope you keep writing as long as it makes you happy.

Hey Nonnie. Thank you SO much for sharing, and I’m so honoured that you read my work. And I am so flustered to hear that ‘Sansukh’ is in your autocorrect – it isn’t in MY autocorrect, and now I feel like lsjahdgflajghfdakhgfakhga whoa wut