depressing quesiton – does every dwarf make it mahal’s hall? what happens to the ones that don’t?

idk, Nonnie. I’ve mentioned before that Mahal re-embodies his Dwarves in the Halls (there are a few answered asks regarding that, actually, if you check my ‘dwarves’ tag or ‘headcanony things’ tag). It’s a bit of a system, tbh, the way it has worked out. I’ll break it down, step by step, and see if that sparks any ideas…

Dwarf – Made by Mahal

Dwarf – Dies, is sent to Mandos’ Halls.

(canon bit: we know that the Dwarves believe that their halls of waiting, whilst still a part of Mandos’ domain, are set aside from other people’s halls. There they are looked after by Mahal until Dagor Dagorath, whoop)

Dwarf – in Halls, is re-made by Mahal in their eternal body (this guy takes a warranty seriously)

Previously, I have mused that perhaps those Dwarves who are truly awful souls, who are corrupted beyond help and are truly irredeemable, would not have been re-made by Mahal. Not sure where their fea goes. Perhaps Morgoth in Space has an Evil Dwarf Army, beyond the Door of Night?

a while ago you said something that all of the elven bros (legolas, laindawar, laerophen) were older than what the usual age for elves to marry at. so, what i wanted to ask is how old do you think they would be in human years if that makes any sense. so, as an example, if legolas as an elf is 2,000 and something or whatever (i don’t know his age), then he would about 34 in human years?? i’m sure if that makes anymore sense, sorry!.

god, I don’t know if there really IS a comparison to be made to human ages here, Nonnie. There is effectively no end to an Elf’s life, if they are not killed or do not become weary of living, and so there’s no real thing as a human equivalent of 30′s, 40′s, middle-aged, old-age, etc.

That said, we do know from Tolkien that most Elves are married at around 100 years of age. So that’s why that line is there.

We also know that some Elves are OOOOLD. But doesn’t mean that they are frail or their life is drawing to a close, like it would for a human? Their bodies simply do not age. So yeah.

As Elves go, Legolas is young-ish. Arwen is older than him. But Tauriel was meant to be only 600? But she’s an Elf that is 600, not a ‘twenty-something’ human, nnngh.

I don’t want to make you feel like I’m totally negative towards the idea, or that I’m being a snob about it. I’m glad you asked me, Nonnie, even though I feel like am not explaining this well! But I find it really hard to think of Elves and immortality and all that jazz being at all similar to the assumptions we make of mortal age brackets.

IDK, I can’t see Legolas (or any Elf, for that matter) having an equivalence to a human age, considering their agelessness. To me there’s just Elves, and older Elves and younger Elves… and the difference is: Young Elves aren’t as tired – or as wise. Older Elves CAN GROW BEARDS (hey Cirdan!) and get weary of unchanging life.

Other people who know Elves better than me might have some notions to put here, and I’d be glad to hear em! But that’s my little understanding of it, Nonnie, I’m sorry if it isn’t helpful *sheepish sort of look, pushes the cookies over*

Ok, I just a wanted to say that I read your sneak peaks for chapter 41 and I was DYING. I could not stop laughing at Gimli’s letter. There were tears. I’m super excited for it to be posted (but take your time)

AWWW thank you so so much, Nonnie! *hugs* I’m really really glad it was funny, and that you enjoyed it!!

Still working, I am afraid. Got a LOL SURPRISE visit from my sister and my utterly adorable tiny new niece yesterday, they stayed the night and have only just left. on the one hand TINY TINY ADORABLE NEW PERSON. On the other GAAAAH I NEED TO BE WRITING.

The universe is giggling at me, i can tell 🙂

How is Arwen the fairest elf anyway? do elves just hold mandatory beauty pageants every age where EVERY elf in middle earth has to show up? (the punishment for not showing up is a bad haircut, the most SEVER punishment imaginable) or is it just something Elrond calls her (proud papa) and every other race just took it literally instead of a elf-dad embarrassing his elf-daughter in front of all her friends

PFFFFFFTHAHAHAHA

(Elrond is one of the judges, and WOE BETIDE ANYONE WHO CALLS HIM OUT FOR BIAS)

So I admit that Ive been waiting on tenterhooks for chapter 41 since you announced it was soon forthcoming; and now I’ve read the sneak previews (ESPECIALLY THE SECOND), I’m even more excited, I CAN HARDLY CONTAIN MY EXCITEMENT. As always, you are amazing.

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aaaah thank you, Nonnie! i’m so happy you liked! I’ve been cleaning up what I’ve retrieved from my old hard drive, and heheheheh yeah, the end of this chapter is definitely in sight.

I will be working on it for a few days, I suspect – there’s one scene in particular that is RESEARCH HELL and also TRANSLATION HELL and I wanna get it right – but hold onto your hat, it’s a-coming!

So one of Bombur’s kids is a dancer. Maybe Gimizh gets into their dancing stuff and goes around for a while covered in fancy dancing clothes.

Yes! Bofrur, a dancer and musician who specialises in drums (and in dancing on the drums, BECAUSE WHY THE HECK NOT)

pfffffft Gimizh in the best dancing gear, wearing the special shoes and with the tails of the jewelled and belled shirt trailing along behind him, lmaaaaao

jingle jangle, little Dwarf…!

very important question- is laindawar ticklish? cause i love the idea of a really serious and uptight character being reduced to squealing when only the slightest bit toughed as they are so goddamn ticklish. i mean of course ya better run like hell when ur done because he will commit mass homicide but ive been thinking about this a lot and i love it.

Laindawar: I AM NOT TICKLISH. AT ALL. NOT ONE BIT.

Laerophen (whispers): try the backs of his knees.

Laindawar: WHAT WHO SAID THAT, WHO SLANDERS ME SO

Laerophen: *innocent look*

Legolas (whispers): and his ribs. Elbereth Gilthoniel, his ribs are the jackpot

Laindawar: LIES! DO NOT PAY ANY HEED TO MY FOOLISH BROTHERS THEY ARE LIARS WHO LIE. ALSO I AM NOT TICKLISH.

Laerophen (whispers): soles of his feet…

Laindawar: shut UP.

i’m not saying not to be upset, i understand! character bashing can hurt when you’re feeling low. but i know from exp that tumblr can be a bad site to go to when you’re venting with no filter, and you have tons of followers and there is no control on this site bc there’s no privacy and posts get out of control. i don’t think the artist meant for it to be bashing at all so that’s why responding to them might have felt personal maybe?

I’m discovering this now, and tbh Nonnie I am very sorry I didn’t listen to you. Please people – STOP. Do not EVER attack someone. Do not EVER send anon hate. DO. NOT.

I am incredibly INCREDIBLY ANGRY AND APPALLED and about a billion times more upset now!!!

a) Anon hate is not and shall not EVER be okay. Difference of opinion – fine. Anon hate – NO.

b) The recipient of the hate apparently thinks that I was the one to send it????? I am appalled and HORRIFIED. I have never sent anon hate in my entire fucking life.

c) Welp. Apparently I cannot be a person on my blog. I can’t even be upset about something. Looks like I get to be seventeen deliriously happy puppies chained to a keyboard.

Great.

I know this in no way decreases the hurt, and their response made me wince a bit too, but since in the art in question Dain only expresses doubt about Bilbo’s trustworthiness as an advisor, and it felt like Thorin’s response was the joke, when I saw it, it didn’t set off any of my character-bashing alarms. And people have gotten pretty aggressive in their askbox – they’re not esl, and i can’t entirely blame them for being defensive if the asks they’ve published are representative examples.

WHAT. okAY NO NO STOP.

STOP IT. IT IS NOT OKAY TO ATTACK SOMEONE. EVER. EVER.

i understand how you feel, everyone has had a favorite character bashed, as a survivor it triggers me when my favorites are made into rapists in fics. there are hobbit joke posts i hate. but i don’t this taking one scene means the artist literally think he’s exactly like jj abrams or that they meant harm and your blog is seen by a lot of people and more popular bloggers opinions get taken more seriously, which could cause wank and hurt on all sides.

Oh this again, oh no.

This is the goddamned tip of the iceberg, and everybody knows it. When it comes to Dain and character-bashing, it isn’t just this one instance, or even a handful. It is of epidemic proportions. There are easily ten times as many Villain!Dain fics as Good!Dain fics. Easily.

I do not intend to approach the artist, and I wish them well. I can want Dain-positivity and be sad about the flood of Dain-bashing without inspiring wank, and would be 9000% ready to shut that shit down if it occurred in my name, because I do not and never will condone it.

I am upset about the message (inadvertent or not – though I can’t see how, after that dismissive answer to the anon) in a piece of fanwork. After an avalanche of this stuff over the last few days. And I assume that, from the above, you are telling me it’s preferable for me to be silently miserable about what upsets me. That it’s not okay for me to be upset on my own blog…?

I have hashed this out before. I am not a corporation, I am a person, singular. A human. And this is my personal blog. I have tags. I have warned for those tags. I do not tag names, nor do I tag ships or characters in order to spread it around. People can choose to blacklist my clearly-warned-for tags.

I am also tired of defending my goddamned right to be upset on my blog bc people don’t want to hear that I am, in fact, not seventeen omnipotent, deliriously happy puppies chained to a keyboard.

Anon, I know you mean well. But telling me to be quiet when I’m sad and tearing my hair out isn’t very nice.