laqwjhdfgljh thank you!
I do intend to finish that one – it’s on indefinite hiatus (everything is on indefinite hiatus, sorry bout that) but it will def be finished.
I enjoyed writing Sir Pterry-style footnotes FAR too much to give up on it forever 🙂
Legolas: *pulls back shower curtain on Gimli showering*
Legolas: Are we – stop screaming, it’s me – are we out of wine?
The Company was arranged in this way: Aragorn, Frodo, and Sam were in one boat; Boromir, Merry, and Pippin in another; and in the third were Legolas and Gimli, who had now become fast friends.
I imagine it takes a bit to get an elf drunk?? But I like the idea of Legolas becoming really giggly.
There was also supposed to be some fabric involved in this but I guess they’re naked now
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Laketown is Pugtown, this we know 😀
Erm. I think Elves would have hunting dogs, most likely: maybe not big packs of pursuers such as beagles, but certainly retrievers, pointers and birding dogs! They had Huan, after all, that we know of, and he was a hunting hound. Hunting dogs make sense with Elven choice of weaponry and lifestyle, also.
I feel like Hobbits would go in for the big packs; the more the merrier. Farmer Maggot had his dogs, Grip, Fang and Wolf, who were intimidating dogs that he would threaten to sic on people found stealing his mushrooms. But the dogs were actually big softies who wouldn’t harm anybody. They were trained only to scare thieves, not hurt them. They were so effective at this, in fact, that Frodo was still afraid of them thirty years after his youthful mushroom-rustling misadventures 🙂
I feel like sniffers/truffle hunters would also be highly prized by Hobbits. Because FOOD. Also sheepdogs. They would LOVE smart, intuitive, sheepdogs. Oh. So. Much.
idk about Dwarves! Perhaps burrowers or ratters? I feel like they would admire the go-get-em spirit of terriers. Also, a lot of Dwarf settlements seem to end up by rivers/the sea: perhaps they like water-dogs and fishing dogs such as spaniels! Which would be sorta awesome.
I wonder if it was the ancient Numenoreans who bred the fancy show dogs. It feels like the sort of thing the Numenoreans might do. Their mutt descendants might still be sniffing around Gondor, the carefully-purebred traits and characteristics all but erased.
There’s some ideas, Nonnie! Hope you like em.
aquilea-of-the-lonely-mountain:
“A fine hunt you have led us! Two hundred leagues, through fen and forest, battle and death, to rescue you! And here we find you feasting and idling – and smoking! Smoking! Where did you come by the weed, you villains? Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!”
“You speak for me, Gimli”, laughed Legolas. “Though I would sooner learn how they came by the wine.”
… Gimli has no chill and Legolas just proved that he is his father’s son.
if you call Samwise Gamgee the “”“true hero”“” of the story but put Frodo down or belittle his accomplishments in any way in the same post or breath then i hope you know that Sam Gamgee would be disgusted by you and that opinion
Aw Yiss 