At some point Laerophen has to hold the baby, and he is just stock-still in a mixture of absolute terror and being overcome with the cute. Thorin 3: “should we … Help him out?” Bomfris:” give it a minute, he’s not going to drop the baby. I want to enjoy the look on his face a moment longer.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

oh my god, Bomfris totally would. She would. 300% would. Awesome!

I have been explaining to my mom the intricacies of fandom/fanfic/the Sansukh podfic process, and to help her keep things straight Laerophen is simply referred to as “The Cookie Thief”

PFFFFFFFFT

Awwww, Nonnie! That is adorable, I am cooing a bit at the screen. Laerophen The Cookie Thief, alskdgflajsgflajhfd (Gimizh Approves)

If Laerophen stays in Erebor long enough for royal baby, there is going to be /so much/ Elven awe for newborns. :)

He will be all “EPIC AMAZEMENT AND HEART EYES” and also “AHHH TERRIFIED NOW, SO TINY AND FRAGILE OH HELP IT MOVED, WHAT DOOOO”

Will Laindawar make an appearance in Sansukh? (Help, I think I’m becoming a Laerophen fan)

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!)

hi dets! i’ve recently reread From One Age to Another, and i’m kinda curious about Legolas’ brothers in that fic. like, are they similar to Laerophen and Laindawar, what’re their relationships with family members like, stuff like that… any thoughts you’d like to share?

LOL, I didn’t go into the kind of detail on those brothers as I have for Sansukh’s Laindawar and Laerophen – those Elves were basically me playing with the idea of having Legolas as not-an-only-child. FOATA was me testing the waters in a lot of ways: it was my first LOTR fic ever, and I was experimenting a bit with style and narrative and characterisation. Those two Elves are the proto-Laerophen and the proto-Laindawar, really. They barely turn up for more than a couple of sentences, so I didn’t need to go to the in-depth lengths of character-building I spent on the Sansukh characters. Sorry I can’t give you more detail on them!

Gimizh’s reaction to finding out he and Laerophen are related is going to be priceless.

OH MY GOODNESS I just realized that Legolas and Bofur are going to be brother’s-in-law?!?!?!? (I mean hopefully I mean I’m assuming that’s what Sansukh’s leading to). And Gimizh’s uncle and his elf friend Laerophen’s brother are going to be together?!?!?!? (married or whatever they choose but together wink wink) So clearly Gimizh and Laerophen have to be the best men at the wedding.

~~the number of Dwarves that are going to discover that they are related to Thranduil, it is sorta awesome hahaha~~

This comes apropos of nothing, but just now, I misread “Jeri” as “Jeff” (don’t ask me how, I probably need new glasses), and now I’m imagining the adventures of a Dwarf named Jeff and I just want this. Anyway.

JEFF

(along with Larry the Elf and Brad the Bowman, lolololol!)

dyt laerophen is going to watch gimizh go through his emo phase

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.

😀

do you think they call laerophen “larry” because i would

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

(I am forcefully reminded of the ‘Brad the Bowman’ post, snrk)