Off the wall question that I woke up thinking about bc I’m rereading sansukh to catch up: if a dwarf were to drop something while in the star pool what would happen? Would it ‘float’ out or would it be lost on Arda but not visible to the living?

*stares helplessly at ask*

ummmm….

*stares some more, thinking furiously*

HELP I DON’T KNOW

They’d have to pass through not one, but TWO metaphysical barriers. There’s the wall between the living and the dead, of course. But there’s also the mists between Aman and Middle-Earth that separate the Blessed Realm from the ‘real world’ and keep it apart and inaccessible.

Hell, it’s hard enough for the spirits of the dead dwarves to make it there!

This is just an silly/odd idea, but I like to think that if a dwarf deliberately dropped something into Gimlin-zaram (say, a hammer, or a pen?), it would immediately sink without trace beneath the glowing water. No other change or sign to show its passing.

The next time that dwarf saw Mahal, that hammer or pen would be in His great hand, and he would give off a slight air of mild annoyance. He would give it back with pointedly deliberate movements.  

“Please refrain from littering, my child. Please use the bins provided.”

*lies facedown on the floor*

i’ve worked for two and a half days straight on recording all the string parts for ‘Light on the Horizon’. I’ve re-recorded and deleted and re-recorded and adjusted and prodded and tweaked, deleted and then done the lot all over again… and it still sounds like

augh why do i suck