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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!)

I have two questions, sorry in advance! The picture on ff for Sansukh, is it supposed to mean something? And (this one isn’t about Sansukh, sorry!) what do you think would have happened if Dis had been part of the Fellowship of the Ring? I mean, she had to stay home while three people she loved marched off only a few decades and it ended in their deaths. What if she accompanied Gimli and Gloin to Rivendell and decided to be part of the Fellowship?

Hi Nonnie, thank you for dropping by! 🙂

Uh, not sure what is meant by ‘ff’ – if you mean FFN, there’s no picture on FFN specifically for Sansukh… just my old author pic (which was the delightful and delicious Eddie Izzard himself, wearing a tiara).

Oh god, hello wonderful story idea. Wow.

Well, for a start, I suspect that she and Boromir would have INSTANTLY understood each other. Also, that people would have TALKED about the Ring’s effect upon them. Y’know, instead of trying to hide it, and so struggle in isolation… and eventually succumb.

I also think that Legolas would have been even more discombobulated. Considering. I mean, one Dwarf is bad enough, the son of one he imprisoned… but hey, let’s throw in the sole surviving member of that branch of the family.

Gimli would have been less alone. He’s the only Dwarf we get to know in any depth in the whole of LOTR, after all.

I actually HUGELY doubt they would have gone through Moria. She LIVED through that bloodbath – she saw fully one half of her people die before that gate. It cost her her King and grandfather, and her brother, and many of her cousins. If I were Dis, I wouldn’t want to see a pebble of that place.

This means that the Balrog lives. This also means that Gandalf is not reborn as Gandalf the White… which means that Saruman keeps his rank as the head and most powerful of the Istari… nnngh, possibly. Possibly… there’s an argument to be made there, but let’s leave that for now.

No Lothlorien. No light of Galadriel. No three hairs. No friendship between Gimli and Legolas.

Perhaps they go via the Gap of Rohan after all, Dis supporting her friend Boromir’s suggestion. He is encouraged to speak about his fears and the increasing pull of the Ring upon his thoughts. So by the time they enter the lands of the horse-lords, he is very aware of his danger and is ready to go back home in order to keep the Quest safe and secret.

Merry and Pippin do not get captured by Orcs. Gimli said he would go to Mordor with them, and so the four Hobbits and Gimli, traipse off towards the Black Gate. “Faithless is he who says farewell when the road darkens” etc.

But entering Rohan would bring new problems – Saruman, and the Wild Men, and Grima, and the enchantment of Theoden.

But Theodred is still alive. If they pass through Rohan and Gandalf overthrows Saruman’s hold on Theoden’s mind earlier, then his son still lives. Dis, Boromir, Aragorn, Legolas and Gandalf are the new Five Hunters, but what they hunt is not Hobbits captured by Orcs. I can see Dis encouraging the Rohirrim to throw off Grima’s twisted policies and the sly sweet subtleties of Saruman before his stranglehold upon their kingdom becomes complete: his bid for power would be aborted before it could even begin…

Damn, this answer got long, and there’s even more I could go on with, but I am sure this is enough to be going on with for now (before I wrITE ANOTHER 400K MONSTERFIC)

What an amazing question, Nonnie!!!

poesiariptide:

So @determamfidd​ and her hilariously adorable portrayal of Galion in Sansukh did the unthinkable- finally inspired me, after over a
year, to write a fanfic drabble. *GASP* *dramatic drumroll*

So, my plot bunny- After
Galion’s first encounter with Dorwinion wine, Legolas and Tauriel have to half
drag, half carry him home. 

Dedicated to all who love Dets and her work! 

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BAAAAHAHAHAHA oh gosh, this is hilarious – I am feeling for Tauriel rn, surrounded by these goobs ❤ His FIRST encounter with dorwinion – goodness knows, it isn’t his last :DDD

Beautifully written and absolutely hilarious. This is awesome! ashdgfjashfd aaaah thank you SO SO SO much!

So Laerophen tells Gimizh some stories of Legolas being a silly little kid, figuring what’s the harm, the odds of them meeting are so slim…. as it happens, they all end up in the Mountain because Life Happens. Gimizh (bless his little mischief heart) asks Legolas if it’s true that he once wrapped up a baby bird in Kind Thranduil’s favorite robe, only for the bird to poop all over it … in front of the whole family. Legolas gave Laerophen such a stink-eye. Gloin laughed and laughed.

Brother, I will kill you.