Well I don’t believe I can put a picture on here but I’d just like to share. I was on LOTRO (Lord of the Rings Online, an epic game) exploring Moria and I stumbled across a group of dwarves and one of them was named Frar! So I basically flipped and started looking desperately around for Lóni. Didn’t find him, and it’s set some time after the Fellowship passes through, but still… feelsy sigh

He must have been very frantic to not know where Loni was!

Awwww, that’s fantastic! It sounds like a great game! Unfortunately I am scraping at the clock for more hours in the day already – wish I could have a moment to play games. LOTRO sounds exactly like my cup of tea, and I’ve seen so many cool pictures from people who play it 🙂

THORIN’S DARK NAME WAS WORTH THE WAIT. I WAS CRYING. MY SHIPPING HEART WAS CRYING. IT WAS SO PERFECT.

*HUGS* THANK YOU, THANK YOU NONNIE THANK YOU

I was so nervous this time – like, HUGELY so – and that people like the name is such a relief to me!

eomer an eowyn sibling feels and love is probably my favorite thing in the world

Oh, I loved writing that part! I love them, oh so much. I loved writing their tenderness and pride in that moment, the relief and fear and understanding.

And now they’re all each other has in the world, and AUGH. NO.

Hey look, I found more angst!

tweenDís angrily chasing her brothers because they /ruined her necklace/

OSHIT RUN

(Thorin is slower than Frerin – he’d totally be the one copping a furious bundle of adolescent rage to the face)

What do you think hobbits do in their afterlife? I like to think it’s one giant birthday party and everyone is invited.

I’m going to be visiting this in the fic eventually! So I’m not going to go into heaps of headcanons here, sorry. Too many spoilers!

But we do know, from Tolkien, that Hobbits go to the Halls of Mandos after they die, like Men do. From there they go to a place unknown ‘even to the Valar’.

😀

Have (re-)read new chapter of Sansukh. SO MANY FEELS. IT IS AMAZING. love the dead peanut gallery in the Houses of Healing (so much Narvi love). and THORIN AND BILBO MY GOD. so good. possibly dead and/or dying of shipper feels. also, DID THEY HAVE TO MENTION HOW DAIN WOULD NEVER GET TO HOLD HIS GRANDCHILD?

(YES YES I HAD TO MENTION THAT. I HAD TO GO THERE. I HAD TO INJECT ANGST IN THERE SOMEWHERE.)

kjsgfsalhdfgas thank you, thank you SO much Nonnie! I am so glad you liked it so much, you re-read it! That’s such a wonderful and gratifying thing to hear, you’re so so kind!

(NAAARRRRVIIIII)

Balinith probably has a little notebook in with all his other gear. And a pen. Because as the mythbusters say, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing stuff down.

He absolutely would! I like to think that he’d keep notes of his discoveries.

Durin booty overload. Bilbo is flustered.

That is a LOT of butts. I mean. Line of Durin Roll Call: Thorin, Dain, Dwalin, Balin, Oin, Gloin, Stonehelm, Gimli, Thror, Thrain, Nain, Fundin, Groin, and so on…

No wonder Bilbo is flustered!

The new dark-name revelation has got me thinking about all the others… will we see Gimizh’s? Any of the Sons of Dwalin’s? ahhh so many possibilities

I… honestly have no idea, Nonnie! I will eventually work out Dark names for everybody, but I haven’t got them all yet, or I only have a vague idea.

Tiny Balinith talking at length about something Sciency and just collapsing asleep. Because science doesn’t sleep and rock formations are very very cool. His parents are grateful for the break.

oh god that is so precious. Also I feel for Dwalin and Orla!! I have a new appreciation for peace, nowadays 🙂