OOOOH THAT MUSIC OOOOH OOOOOH I LOVEIT damn i need to go stand on a rugged cliffside with a stoic expression and my hair and kilt flapping in the wind
goooooooood Ricky. Your golden, golden tones. GOLDEN THROAT, GOLDEN HUMAN, GOLDEN HEART.
shitbiscuits, i’d forgotten how much exposition was at the beginning of this chapter (THE INTROS GET SHORTER THEY DO THEY DO, I get rid of em altogether after we’ve stopped skipping in time so much lmao I AM SO SORRY RICKY SO SO SORRY)
HEHEHEHE I love the mental image of Gloin fluffing up in anger like a Ghibli character heheheheheh
GIMLI @culumacilinte my star may there be all the shirtless Julian in you life FOR THE PEFECT HAPPINESS AND JOY AND GIMLINESS OF YOUR VOICE
your delivery oooh yes Ricky YESSSSSSSS OH YESSSS exposition me harder you fab fab monarch of the microphone
OH BOFUR OH BOMBUR OH GLOIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bombur you SWEETHEART oh my goddddddd your voice is the actual most cute most adorable most lovely most sweet most DELIGHTFUL voice ever oh MY GOOODNESSSSSSSS @liliumconcolor!!!!!
GLOIN MY DARLIN YOU HAVE ALL MY HEART. You’re a gem @hakira – you’re utterly wonderful, your every line made my heart warm and my face ache with smiling
AUGH BOFUR – good GRIEF breake my heart in the very next second, you wonder @theriza – RIZA HOW HOW DO YOU DO IT, such amazing and perfect delivery, your voice as always is a joy to hear and a pleasure on the ears, and your voice acting is SO ON-POINT AND GORGEOUS, gaaaah you’ve been reading my brain again
JON JON MY AMAZING FRIEND MY DEAR DEAR KING
lksjhdgfljshdgfsj HOW DO YOU MAKE EVERYTHING YOU SAY 900000% BETTER AND MORE POIGNANT AND FUNNIER AND MORE REAL THAN ANYTHING I COULD HAVE EVER IMAGINED
WITH JUST ONE LINE
“honey cakes…” LMAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
oh help
it’s bilbs
i’m crying already
@themadmanwithablog HOW HOW HOW every line, every line…! SO INCREDIBLE – all his properness and babble, but that undercurrent, so cleverly hidden, so cleverly and deeply, until it’s prodded… and oh his disapproval, it’s so amazing, you have it NAILED! I’m goggling here, I need a drink, he’s wonderful YOU’RE wonderful…!
BAAAHAHAHAHAHA ‘Or I’ll take it down and use it. Pass the scones?’ PERFECT. TOO PERFECT.
oh shit
Bifur
help that moment is tremendous – so powerful
amazing ALL OF YOU
LMAO awkward Bilbo is wonderful Bilbo! And the way you gave ‘i don’t suppose I shall ever marry’ and then ’…him…’ – OH GOD OH HELP OH MY SOUL JUST DEPARTED
AWWWWW IS THAT YOU PLAYING BARIS AWWW THAT’S LOVELY AWWW @the-dragongirl is there a single thing you can’t do…!!!
guhhhhh
Thorin
GUUHHHHH RICKY your beautiful, sensitive and gorgeous delivery making my heart hurt, I need a drink I need three drinks
OOOOH THAT SOUND EFFECT OF THE STARS OOOOH
GUH THORIN
buhbuhbuh KILI
ohshit Jon @dain-mothafocka I’m blubbering again, oh god this is amazing, this is a fucking tour-de-force, ‘don’t toy with me’, where’s your goddamn Oscar, where’s your Emmy, HOLY SHIT
BUHBUHBUH KILI @liketotessecret you precious wonderful human, you’re incredible
RICKKYYYYYY
MAAAATTTTT
JOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN
everyone is amazing, everyone is tearing me into small tiny pieces so exquisitely
oh kili oh bab
‘I can see all the things you had to lose, all the things you had to give up’ OWWWWW you gave that so beautifully, ‘it was only you’, help me help me help meeeee
‘for a century’ twist that knife TWIST IT
drip drip drip the echo this is amazing
I now have a drink I NEED IT OKAY
my nose is v red
kili this monologue is stupendous, it’s amazing, you’re AMAZING oh my darling kee, you wonderful person Matt this is just astonishingly beautiful, such mature and clever timing and delivery, sensitive and perfect AHHHHH
OH THORIN NO, OH JON PERFECTLY PERFECTLY DONE
‘my only purpose’ GUH ‘more than duty for me’ DOUBLE GUH ‘it is hopelessly late’ INFINITY GUH JON PLEASE JUST *throws heart at your feet* just have it
‘how annoying do you think i can be in that time?’ LMAAAAAO stupendously done, MATT SO PERFECTLY DONE
hsldkjfglajshdsdjhfgsljdhf end credits
now i stand at a cliff in my kilt CRYING MY FUCKING EYES OUT
As always full credits may be found below the cut, including all performers and attribution for the sound effects. We would, however, be remiss if we failed to highlight the contributions of @the-dragongirl, who not only has stepped into the role of audio engineer for our project but was also kind enough to provide additional flute noises for this chapter.
Chapter 4 is soon on the horizon. Here is the teaser to tide you over in the meantime. Full attribution below the cut, as always, but special thanks goes to @cagethesongbird for his assistance and @the-dragongirl for lending her exquisitely discriminating ear as a beta listener.
do you ever feel grateful for the wonderful artists and writers in your fandom? they could have loved another pairing. they could have been in another fandom completely. but no, they’re in your fandom creating for your pairing/fave characters and they’re sharing their talent with us all and I think that’s amazing
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 🙂
Phew, it’s been a long time Tumblr! I went back to the UK for a month, celebrated Christmas, my birthday, and had one of the worst journeys home in a really long time! (Shanghai airport and I clearly do not see eye to eye) I also had to suffer through just over a month of little to no internet. Which…yeah. That wasn’t all that fun.
Anyway, I didn’t get to say Merry Christmas to you all, or wish you a Happy New Year, so I just wanted to look back on the last year.
My resolution last year was to get more actively involved in fandom, and I can well and truly say that I did that! Joining the cast of @sansukhpodfic was probably the best thing to happen to me last year. I’ve made so many incredible friends, had so many amazing experiences and made so many fabulous things with my wonderful podficcing friends.
I have so much to be thankful for. @fuckthisimgoingtoerebor , @heuristicdevice, thank you for helping to make last year one of the best ones of my life. @ichijoukenichiro, thank you for sharing my sense of humour and screaming about foxes with me. @mckittericks, thank you for putting up with the screaming about foxes. Also, thank you for sharing your amazing art with the world. @the-dragongirl, thank you for being my podficcing partner in crime and staying up late to convert people to the wonders of podfic. @determamfidd, thank you for being a wonderful and supportive person. It’s an honour to be able to play in the sandbox you have created. @peggaboo, thank you for tagging me in cute fox gifs. You always make my day. @aviva0017, thank you for sharing all of your talents with the world. I always look forward to seeing what new thing you’ve recorded, drawn or written. @poplitealqueen, thanks for being the first person I properly spoke with, and for always lifting my spirits with you wonderful art and great sense of humour.
If I’ve had an interaction with you in the past year, chances are that I want to give you a massive hug!
*hugs, misty-eyed* oh my dear Merry <333 Thank you for being such a delight, for all your creative and positive energy, and for all the laughs. May 2016 be a triumph for you!!
The different peoples of Middle-Earth have their own ways of farewelling the old year and greeting the new. Each race has its own rich customs and traditions to mark the winter solstice and the longest night of the year. Each is as distinct and unique as snow is to fire.
Aw Yiss 