Ahh, I’m glad those breaks work for you, Bookmaker Nonnie! I’ve been wracking my brains trying to think of names, and coming up short! I will keep trying.
I trust you, I know it will be beautiful. (hah I remember discovering how expensive fonts are, in the discussion about Plantin some time ago. And I was just SO SHOCKED at the cost, lmao)
OH MY GOODNESSS
aaaaah!! Hello Bookmaker Nonnie! It is wonderful to hear from you again!
Yeah, it must come to an end. But no doubt I shall thrash madly about in the Appendices for a good long time while I go through withdrawal, heh
Ohhh, good question.. I would have said that I’d prefer it to be one volume. But heck, as I recall Tolkien said that he wanted LOTR to be all one book as well, but his publisher said it was too big. Lemme see.
OK. I just checked, and yeah. The whole of LOTR is 481,103 words (including the Appendices). Sansukh currently stands at 457,875.
Haha oh sweet mercy, it’s less than 30K away
ALL RIGHT. Bowing to the inevitable, here’s some possible breaks for 3 books:
BOOK I – Chapter 1 – 17
BOOK II – Chapter 18 – 33
BOOK III – Chapter 33 – 50
(don’t ask me to name the books, I can’t think of anything at all!!!)
Does that work for you, Bookmaker Nonnie? Love to hear what you think!
oh cheezels christ I am flattened by this comment
Nonnie, you are INCREDIBLY SWEET AND KIND. This is a beautiful, beautiful compliment – I personally feel that I’m so so SO amateurish, and so I am really super-thrilled to be compared that way!!!
Thank you so very, hugely, enormously much for reading it, and for sending such a gorgeous comment, I am gonna howl like a dingo, I am just so happy 😀
(2/3) I get that Gimli and Legolas’ families are a little shocked to be getting this news via letters. And as a sister myself, I completely understand Gimris’ position that he should have told them in person, the trollbrain. But given how far Gimli and Legolas have come, I’m not sure their families could have handled it all at once when they saw them again, without any warning at all. Like, the letters are shocking, sure. But if Gloin and Thranduil are going to cause an international incident
(3/3) over some letters, what might they have done if Gimli and Legolas had broken out the banter and the innuendo without any warning at all? For that matter, even with the warning I image they’ll be a little shocked. Perhaps when the families reunite, they will decide to be grateful for those letters after all…
I kinda wanna give you a GIANT prize, bc yeah – that is in fact the idea! They thought about it very carefully after all, Legolas was p sure it would have been a bad idea to spring themselves upon their families all unaware and unprepared. Something truly irreparable could have happened. Disowning, or even harm. You get the picture.
the letters are an attempt to circumvent that. Probably would have worked really well, too, if Thranduil were still in the Greenwood.
And so, yup, the timing truly truly sucks, what with Thranduil and Gloin in the same mountain, and a new peace and era of friendship being born and puppies and kittens and butterflies etc. A gigantic interracial royal family fight isn’t exactly conducive to the whole ‘Most Favoured Nation’ vibe, heh.
BUT the idea was actually very sound!
lsdhfglajh AHH THANK YOU SO MUCH
omg
you know that post that says to say ‘Bubbles’ in the angriest voice you can in order to cheer yourself up?
‘Inexplicable Battlepigs’ works too!
ugh. This happens every so often. I don’t know why: the code is correct, and in most cases the artist has not changed url or anything.
It’s very annoying! Thank you for telling me. I will fix it after I have finished writing the new chapter.
ugh.
So far it’s pretty illuminating
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omfg for serious? WHOA TY
(Boromir is alive and well dammit, Uinen and Ossë found his boat and thought he was hella hot and totally brought him back, and now they’re all living in slightly-squelchy bliss together)
YUP.
No dogs at this stage, or at least not ones I’ve written about. But definitely there are other pets!
And in particular: Watch the pigs that manifest around Dain as the rest of the story progresses. Now that he’s in the Halls, he’s always with a pig, or pigs.
But. They’re never the same pigs. Sometimes its a gigantic bristly boar, sometimes a sweet old sow. Sometimes there’s a piglet in his arms, or a litter racing around his mismatched feet. Nobody knows where they’ve come from, or where they go.
There’s one he calls ‘Petal’ and one he calls ‘Princess’. There’s Boots and Mittens and Blackie and Beryl and Beastie and Patches. They all have names, and he never seems to confuse them at all. 😉
Aw Yiss 