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What are your Oropher head canons?

I don’t really have that many, tbh Nonnie.

I think he was a lot warmer in his demeanour than our chilly diamond Thranduil. We know he was impatient – heck, that’s why he died at Dagorlad, through impatience. He didn’t wait for the signal.

I also think he had a real open dislike and resentment for the Noldor, heh. After the fall of Doriath, we know that the Sindar didn’t want to stay with Gil-galad and the rest of that lot, and instead they left the safety of Lindon and moved east. I suspect Oropher was all ‘fuck you, i’m out. Gonna be a king far far away from you crazy tragic murdering nutbags and your crazy world-destroying dramas.’

Basically, my mental picture is of an Elf who doesn’t have the icy demeanour, long-hidden wraths and griefs, and incredible ancient endurance of Thranduil. Instead, my Oropher was a quick-speaking, quick-thinking, witty and personable sort of Elf, with an almost-Manlike lack of patience, and TONS of Sindar pride. I suspect he was very well-liked, a very popular Elf. I mean, the Silvan Elves made him King, after all.

I bet he was a great dad.

Consider gimli visiting mirkwood after the war and legolas is basically dragging him all over the castle to show gimli his favorite spots (and then kiss him a lot to “add to the good memories there”) and they blush and giggle and kick each other under the table during meals, failing horribly to be subtle. legolas tells his dad after a week and thranduils just “wow! I had /noooo/ idea!!” he’s more offended that they thought he wouldn’t notice than he is abt his son courting a dwarf, I mean /rlly/

*professor voice* HHHMMMMMM, I SEE I SEE… HMMMMM. Yes, yes, excellent, a wonderful premise, good and fluffy and a bit cheeky, with an intriguing and uncommon use of Sarcastic!Thranduil…

(IN OTHER WORDS I LOVE IT I WANT IT I LOVE IT TO BITS, NONNIE)

hi. I sent you an ask non-anoymously, and I think it got lost. but. I just wanted to thank you for writing sansukh and everything else. sometimes, when I needed it, they were a light in the darkness I found myself in, or a hand squeezed in mine, gently reminding me that I am not alone. I really needed that. Sometimes I still need that. So. A thousand times, thank you. I hope you actually get this. Also? The other day I saw a tumblr called mostlycatsmostly, and you’d probs like it. So much fluff.

Oh cripes, my heart, Nonnie. 

You’re right, sometimes we all need that. I do, god knows I do. I’m incredibly grateful and just SO glad that what I wrote could do that in some way for you. Thank you, thank you so so so much for telling me this, for reaching out to me and letting me know. 

*HUGS*

(ALSO I CHECKED OUT THAT TUMBLR AND I AM DROWNING IN PRETTY CATS OMFG THIS IS WONDERFUL)

Hey Dets, do you have a good list of fics where the dwarrow get the recognition they deserve/go off on a rant about how the other races of Middle Earth keep fucking them over? I’m getting some very strong feels about how they (Thorin esp.) got treated in canon. (Alternatively: AU where they actually got aid from folks after Smaug instead of run out of towns)

idk Nonnie, I am a super fan of Dwarves but I go searching for predominantly Gigolas or Good Guy!Dain fics, and so those are the reclists I keep 🙂

Gimli does go off on a rather dignified sort of rant in ch10 of Sansukh, if you’re jonesing really hard!

dets, has anyone ever written a lotr band au? if not thats ok, but please imagine gimli and legolas stuck in pit orchestra together for weeks, thorin and thranduil as band directors quarreling over varsity and junior varsity marching squads, dwarves as brass and elves as woodwinds / dwarves as big band, elves as orchestra. i am drunk,. hello. good bye

ANON AGAIN??? why did i tlel you i was drunk, i apologize. i am making fool of self. love everything you’ve created and this little mini community, it fills my cold angry center with joy, everyone here is beautiful. good night 

AWWW NONNIE, LOVELY DEAR SLIGHTLY-TANKED NONNIE. 

Heh. I love everyone in this bar 😉

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(me rn – and yeah, that is an apron)

i desperately DESPERATELY need a musical/musician gigolas au, I don’t mind admitting. I know shit about Band AU, bc I am a string player and a vocalist, so if it =/= orchestra or choir, i am a newborn baby deer. 

BUT I WOULD READ THE SHIT OUT OF ANY MUSICAL/MUSICIAN GIGOLAS AU, I DON’T MIND TELLING YOU

Orchestra Au w lead oboist Legolas and double-bass player Gimli? Gimme.

Choir Au with bass Gimli (the only one who can keep the others in tune dammit) and soloist tenor Legolas? Gimme.

String Quartet Au with First Violinist Legolas, Second Violinist Aragorn, Violist Eomer and Cellist Gimli?

Gimme. 

Barbershop Quartet Au with Bass Gimli and Lead Legolas? Gimme.

A capella Au, a nontet (9 singers) called ‘The Fellowship” GUESS WHO IS THE BARITONE, GUESS WHO SINGS TENOR

Classical soloist Au with opera countertenor Legolas and pianist (and company accompanist) Gimli? Gimme.

Stage Au with renowned bass-baritone Gimli and side-stage dresser Legolas? 

Gimme.

Heck, if anyone thinks that any of these are worth looking at/investigating, you are more than welcome to em, or stick them on the 1000 Fics Gigolas challenge. DO IT! MAKE ALL THE GIGOLAS HAPPEN. ALWAYS.  

Your reflagging that long thread on biology and gender and species was PERFECT timing. I got into it with a colleague of my husband’s at a dinner party a few nights ago over these issues; said colleague was totally offended by my stance that gender is not biological, it is sociological. I just sent a link to everyone who joined this debate at the dinner party.

*highfives* I am so dang happy I was a part of that. Heck, I managed to keep my cool and hold my ground against a very down-the-rabbit-hole anti-vaxxer today. Hells to the fucking yeah, Nonnie, gimme a Go Science high-five!! 

Pity my next-door neighbours, for we have thin walls and I have finally decided to learn myself to sing “Iron Hills For Me”. Now, it would help if I could carry a tune in a bucket, but what I really want to know is how to stop my voice from breaking at “But gold and gems will turn on you/Where iron will not falter.” Every. Single. Time. That song is one giant heart-breaker, that’s what it is.

Heh, I’m very proud of it, thank you dear Nonnie, and I know @notanightlight​ is too! Awww, I hope that one day your neighbours come in on the harmony in the last chorus. That would kick buttock. 

oooh, okay. Um. I will give you the image I gave myself when I sang this thing. I didn’t cry, but damn it was a near thing. I hope it helps! 

You are an Iron Hills Dwarf, a refugee from two disasters. Your people have fled twice in living memory – both times from dragonfire and ruin. 

The Grey Mountains. Erebor. 

Your family has been decimated in the wars of the kings and his line, all for naught. There is so little left.

You’ve wandered and wandered, until at last you settled, weary and desperate, in the dry red dust of the Iron Hills. And they’ve been safe, and they’ve been true, and there it is you find your home at long last. 

Not rich, not grand, no. But poor and proud and free. 

Iron will. not. falter. 😉