He sure will, and VERY soon! We are catching up with the Battle Under the Trees very soon. Thrandy and Laindawar are going to make an appearance… and we’re going to discover what Galadriel and her crew have been up to!
(Nope, no help here Nonnie, sorry – succumb to his awkwardface haughtiness and total helplessness in front of children!)
oh god, Nonnie. I will try? Bear in mind, I am no expert on HUMAN physiology (let alone fictional races), nor do I know a danged thing about tasers. I looked up some stuff to do this, and I cannot vouch for its veracity.
Sooo, apparently the effects of a taser momentarily ‘scramble’ communication between brain and muscles in a healthy human adult. The muscles’ energy stores of blood sugar are immediately converted into lactic acid, which means that the muscles are forced to do a lot of work in a very short time and are virtually exhausted, nearly instantaneously.
I would think that in a Dwarf, a taser would not necessarily affect them to the same degree. They are hardy after all, and their dense heavy muscles would not exhaust quite so readily. It would affect them though I suppose… perhaps it would send them to their hands and knees rather than dropping them flat to the floor. IDK!
Elves do not suffer physical hurt unless in battle or in emotional distress. They also heal at a remarkable rate. So I expect that an Elf would either a) shake it off like an irritating bug, or b) fall over but jump straight back up again, fully recovered.
*helpless shrug* this is very difficult! I did my best!
Ooooooh, very good point, Nonnie. I hadn’t considered that!!
(I think I’d have to be very cautious about implementing that in the fic. It’s a rocky area to tread.)
HAHAHAHA oh gosh, oh dear!
But now I’m remembering that Elves now and again wear paints, in Sansukh. Legolas mentioned it in Lothlorien, from memory… if you suspect this was a response to Eyeliner Legolas in The Hobbit… you would absolutely be right, lol.
So, I’m imagining Laerophen showing Gimli how to apply black eyeliner. And it is a very cute image. Elf and Dwarf both staring intently into a mirror, pulling the extraordinary faces you have to pull (idk, I always do) when putting makeup on.
😀
Slightly older thing for thatgermangirl that I think I forgot to post, but I still like how it turned out. Height differences give me l i f e.
*___* EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS IS LOVE
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
(I am forcefully reminded of the ‘Brad the Bowman’ post, snrk)
LOTS of elves, yeah! Tolkien does mention specifically in the Silm that Melkor nicked the Elves who ran away when
Oromë invited everybody to the party in Valinor. So, they would have been of the Avari mostly, I guess.
There’s a hint in Morgoth’s Ring (THOME) that some leaders amongst the Orcs were in fact Maiar who had chosen Orc-form rather than Man-shape like Gandalf and his pals. The Great Goblin is suggested to be one of these (!!).
But there’s nothing to suggest that Elves of other clans/families might not have been stolen later on, too! idk, I really have no idea on this particular issue. I was just trying to answer the question as best I could 🙂
(the idea of an Orc whose eyes glitter with a strange light sometimes, whose fingers ache for harp-strings instead of the hilt of his wicked sword, who is ever-driven by a terrible unending compulsion – as though words spoken long ago are whipping at his heels – is a very very heartbreaking one, Nonnie. Ouch.)
Augh, Nonnie. SO SO TRICKY.
*stares a little worriedly at the ask*
Okay, let’s try something. We know that Orcs are descended from Elves that were corrupted by Melkor. So, perhaps it is that they go to a separate part of Mandos’ halls.
We also know that Mandos holds onto those souls that need to be held *smiles sweetly at Feanor*. He keeps them within his halls and does not allow them to be reborn. It’s like Elven purgatory, I suppose.
So Mandos probably doesn’t allow those souls to be reborn as Elves until they have been renewed, refreshed and uncorrupted? idk. That’d take millennia for some of those Orcs (hey hey Azog, cheers Gothmog, you boys are nasty).
Considering that the entire recorded history of Middle-Earth isn’t actually all that long, I suggest that many of those former Orcs will only be released after the final battle, when all evil and sorrow is finally gone from the world and everybody can start again.
Okay – that’s ONE idea! I’m sure other people have other ideas, though. I hope it’s helpful to you, Nonnie! 🙂
This is a possibility, Nonnie! The party’s where it’s at, after all.
(Just for laughs, though: your ask made me wonder if Elves would then logically refer to North as East? East as South? South as West? Have they, in fact, turned the compass 90 degrees clockwise?)
idk, I don’t pay too much attention to that aspect of the movies, really. I am much more tickled by the Captain Obvious Legolas stuff. That’s a little character tweak I can get behind: makes him feel a little natural and flawed and real rather than perfectly-perfect… and perfectly boring.
Aw Yiss 