harrikka:

Here’s an OC for @determamfidd ! This took over 5 hours to do, and I would actually give him a body, but I am too fucking tired to do that.

Aaaanyway, I bestow up you, our favourite honey badger-turned-elf, Laindawar. We haven’t had much of him in your story yet, but I still love his character, and your idea to give Legolas some siblings. 

I’m not too fond of how I’ve done his hair, as I haven’t really properly painted hair before, but I suppose it’s too bad for a first try.

But, I’m not gonna complain anymore, and instead, just say how much I love all your work! Keep ‘em coming, babe!

this is YOUR FIRST TIME DOING HAIR??? FIRST TIME??? oh my GOD, it’s amazing, he’s absolutely ABSOLUTELY AMAZING holy crap

thank you, thank you so so sos ooo much! that is an incredible amount of work, and it is gorgeous, he’s wonderful. LOOK. AT THOSE. EYES. That expression is 110% pure Laindawar, flatly unimpressed and two seconds away from ignoring you. AND I LOVE HIS HAIR. LOVE IT. 

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. 

Re: Sneak Peak 2 – Loving the letter fomat! Poor Leggy. I can feel the anxiety radiating off that letter. All those false starts and cautious wording. (Also Poor Laindawar – all those short jokes XD) Gimli’s letter is absolutely everything and makes me so incredibly happy.

HELLO THERE HOOPY FROOD, HOW YOU BEEN *hugs*

yeah, Legolas is a lot more cautious than Gimli. Like, a lot. A LOT. It’s not that he’s more afraid? He’s doing this, after all, he’s putting pen to paper and writing it down, which is a very brave thing to do. But he has over 2000 years of family history with these people, and he is a prince, he has a high station to uphold… and he knows what his father has lost. nnngh idk, I wanted to find the young Legolas in that letter, the child we see in Midwinter. Like all his years and layers strip away. These are people he’s always looked up to, and he is

almost more

frightened of disappointment than he is of disapproval. 

Gimli has plenty of trepidation too – but he’s very much of the ‘RIP THE BAND-AID OFF IN ONE GO, FAST AS POSSIBLE’ school of thought, lmao!!! “here’s the situation, I know you’re gonna hate it, someone stop Bofur laughing, do it for me please.” End of story. 

he’ll chew it endlessly in his own mind, of course. But as he said before, what can be more scary than facing the entire horde of Mordor without a hope of victory? he’s totally riding on wings of HOLY SHIT WE WON, SOMEONE BUY ME A LOTTERY TICKET, audacious little thing!

HAHAHAHAHAHA LAINDAWAR THE GRUMPY TERRIER ELF AND HIS TEASING TALL YOUNGER BROS welp I’m definitely shorter than him, so he’d be able to look down his long aristocratic nose at me as well 🙂

Hi! I absolutley love Sansukh! I want to read it more than I want to read the actual books half the time. Everything about it kills me and I love it. I was just wondering, how did you come up with Legolas’s brothers? And um will we ever find out everyone’s dark names? (Especially the Ri Brothers and Dwalin cause I love all the dwarves but especially them and I think you already told us Kili’s so I don’t think I need to ask about him.)

Alaksjdfaljshdlasjdhfa THANK YOU SO MUCH NONNIE Oh my goodness, my face is scarlet. 

Ahhhh okay! Well, the idea behind Legolas’ brothers was born out of a half-formed idea from an earlier one-shot fic, From One Age to Another. When I was writing Chapter 16? I think it is? of Sansukh, all of a sudden there they were, nearly fully-formed. 

Plus, Legolas as a character is given some new dimensions when he is given more family members, because it gives him more relationships. And his brothers themselves roughly embody some possible Elven attitudes: Laindawar is aloof, disdainful and martial, a believer in Elven superiority of might. Laerophen is brilliant and learned and introverted, a (former!!!) believer in Elven superiority of intellect. There’s more to them than that, of course, and Legolas shares some of these beliefs at first. It has been interesting to play with how Thranduil’s own attitudes might have been adopted in different ways by THREE different offspring, rather than just the one. Resentment towards the other houses of the Elves, for example, or attitudes towards the other peoples of Middle-Earth. 

It also makes Legolas the youngest of three, and I personally like that dynamic for him. He has a lightness and a recklessness and a… spontaneous gaiety in the books? If you know what I mean? He’s singing all the time, or making ridiculous pronouncements (”I go to find the sun!”) that feels less… responsible? Staid and sober? Than a Crown Prince would seem. 

I feel like I am not putting this well!

I ALSO wanted a representative of the Wood-Elves at each place of battle, to be our Elven focal point. I consciously arranged it so that we would be able to see one of the sons of Thranduil in each location, their attitudes being challenged by whatever they confront. So, Laerophen at Erebor – the bookish, awkward outsider in a realm of Dwarves. Laindawar in Mirkwood – in his element, defending his home guerrilla-warfare style, but having to deal with pesky posh Galadhrim and a bloody Brown Wizard. And of course, Legolas at the epicentre of it all.

IDK, it happened and I ran with it! 🙂

Oh, dark names! I had fun with these! Yes, we have a list of them already! Here’s the list, and here’s the meanings of some of them! And here’s my dark-names tag for you!

(yep, I have done the whole Company, and so Dwalin’s name and the Ri Bros are there!)

thesherrifssecretpolice:

a lil comic for @determamfidd

my head canon for how laindiwar *finally* accepts dwarves. i’m sorry for my bad writing. script is as under:

-Laindiwar: ‘i don’t understand. how could my brothers, ever faithful to my father, befriend the naugrim?’

-frerinith: *appears*

-frerinith: ‘hey mister! you’re reaaaaally tall!’

-Laindiwar:*sudden realization of the beauty and lovableness of dwarves*

OH SWEET HEAVENS I LOVE IT

SO SO MUCH

LSKJDHFLSHADFLA HIS BIG SHINY EYES

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THANK YOU THIS IS ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!

what are your head canons for thranduil’s wife?

Awww, thank you for asking! Spoilers under the cut:

I have named her ‘Aelir’ (”Birdsong”) and she was a Silvan Elf, not a Sinda. Her hair was very pale gold, rather than the Sindar white/silver. 

She was incredibly close to the trees, even more than is usual for Elves. She would have been the sort of Elf who began ‘waking up the Trees, teaching them to speak’ and walking with the Ents, had she been around in the Age of the Lamps, for example. 

She was tall and athletic, and never wore gowns or jewels except for a single necklace of white gems, a courting gift to her from her husband. She always wore green, and usually went barefoot, with grass-stains on her feet. Thranduil courted her for decades, fascinated by her strength and her freedom and her wisdom and her gentleness, all the joy she found in her home and in the things that grow. She was not a skilled and deadly warrior, as he was – but she was quite a wild thing nevertheless, forever clambering into the canopy of the trees like a squirrel, or flitting through the forest, constantly singing to the leaves and the sky. She hated the idea of being confined to formality and pomp (not unlike Bomfris, but of course Bomfris wouldn’t give two hoots about trees) – but in those days Thranduil was gentler and less chilly, and his tenderness and respect eventually won her over. She carefully unearthed his deep-buried heart as though it was one of her beloved trees, and she coaxed it back into bloom. They would dance amidst the leaves season after season, lost in the whispering of the wind. 

She loved completely, and fully – her husband, her children, her home. Her elder two boys were much like Thranduil in demeanor, dignified and reserved (though Laerophen gained her lanky height, and Laindawar had her lithe, squirrelish strength and her delight in the woods). However, her third child was most like her in spirit – in wide-eyed love with the world, singing constantly and heedlessly, sensitive to the green, slow unspoken world of growing things. (ALSO he managed to inherit her slightly obvious and oblivious manner!!)

As Thranduil became more and more involved in trying to keep his Kingdom free from the taint of the growing darkness, he missed the first signs in his wild Silvan wife. By the middle of the Third Age, Aelir had sickened greatly, practically reflecting the sickness creeping through the wood, and it was too late for any healer to halt its progression. The only cure was to go over the sea, to Valinor, where healing would come. 

But once there, there is no coming back. No ship comes East through the mists.

It was an awful time. For all of them. And yet another loss for Thranduil to endure, surrounding his heart in yet another layer of ice. All he has left, he clings to all the more tightly

Laindawar rides a stag? *pictures Legolas riding into Mirkwood and Laindawar riding up alongside him* Really, Legolas? A horse? *Legolas lifts an eyebrow* We went through Rohan, what do you expect? *Gimli from behind him* Just be glad he didn’t bring back a Mumakil. *Laindawar lifts both eyebrows*

HAHAHAHAHA PERFECT! Gimli is obvs still sore about that Oliphaunt, ha. And yeah, Laindawar does ride a stag! We first see it in Chapter 38 – “a young, proud buck”. 

no he doesn’t ride it to make himself look taller, that is a vicious untruth spread about by his younger brothers