I’m reading Sansûkh right now and I am
suffering
AHH THANK YOU! And yeah, re: your tags, everything is quite angsty and augh until ch9… then it starts picking up speed! Sorry in advance for ch8. *sheepish look*
(are you the wonderful mouse? If so, DOUBLY THANK YOU – those comments have been MASSIVELY helpful and beneficial during a bit of a stressful period!)
I started dying at Tauriel calling Thorin ‘my guy’ and haven’t stopped
Heeeeeeey my guy, looking good, looking… a lot less dead-ish. All right? *finger guns* heeeeeey uh, yeah, cool beans… so um, if you could just refrain from making with the stabbity, could you point me in the direction of… what. what – is there something on my face? What?!? WHAT the HELL IS SO FUNNY.
Hey Nonnie!
BELIEVE ME. WE ARE INTERESTED. SO SO INTERESTED.
Soooooooooo interested. VERY.
I know it can be difficult to comment for some folks: I don’t think that post is contesting that.
It is simply the most amazing, rewarding thing to have a comment. Even if it is ‘extra kudos!’… Or even just a keysmash.
True, every so often there is a cruddy comment from an entitled and crusty crudmachine. It’s the nice comments, the ones that encourage me along, that help me battle my reaction to those.
and when you’re writing something that takes a very long time, that encouragement goes a VERY long way towards keeping you engaged.
From the fic itself:
A burly young Dwarf, not even seventy, was stacking wood for the braziers that would warm the night-watchmen. His bright red hair was pulled back into workman’s braids, his short beard thick on his cheeks and tied into two small braids that stuck out either side of his chin. His face was set and pale. “Glóin’s son,” he said in surprise.
“Aye,” said Frerin. “Did you forget him?”
(ch2)
And
Mizim smiled at him, and threaded two golden beads onto the short tufting braids of his beard. “You look very handsome,” she told him.
“For a troll,” Gimrís added cheerfully.
“Gimrís!” Mizim snapped. Her daughter rolled her eyes.
(Ch3)
OH AND AND AND ALSOOOO
“Oh,” Frodo said, and he looked puzzled for a moment. “It seems so strange. I mean, sixty is passing middle-age for a Hobbit, and yet it’s only young to a Dwarf.”
Gimli smiled at him. “Very young. Your uncle met me a few years after the Quest, and no doubt he thought me a very raw and callous youth. Why, I could barely braid my beard properly, and it stuck out in two tufts! Terribly embarrassing. I’m glad none here saw it!”
(Ch11)
LASTLYYYYY
From Follow the Leader:
He bows his head, and then he looks up once more, a sad smile tugging at the corner of his mouth. He reaches up and unbinds his short beard before taking out his belt-knife and cutting three locks from it. Hair already dusts the feet of the three statues: some more will not make an appreciable difference. His bright red hair joins the others, to moulder away along with the bones of the honoured dead.
“You bloody sods,” he says, and then he laughs softly. The echoes laugh back: a thousand Gimlis are laughing at him. “My beard is long enough to braid now,” he says to the solemn face of Kíli. “No more tufts. How jealous you would be!”
SO yeah – the answer is yes, he had an awkward tufty time of it for a while.
*lies facedown on the floor*
I KNOW.
Arrrrgh.
Hey Dets! I drew a bunch of Dwarrowdams for you and Tumblr won’t let me upload them, but I put them on imgur! If you want you can add them to this post or something if Tumblr isn’t borking on your end, or not, whatever you want. Either way, sweet character designs for you! If you can tell who each one is supposed to be, that means I did a good job.
AHHHH!
omg look ppl, this is brilliant!!!
THERE’s MORE TOO – go look omg go look this is amazing
(I AM IN LOVE WITH THAT HRERA AND BARIS – OMFG THEY ARE AMAZINGGGGGG)
@the-anchorless-moon thank you so so so so SO MUCH!!
good fics need good covers @avelera @determamfidd @omgkatsudonplease @hannicanny
OH YOUR BEAUTIFUL HEART, FISHY
I love it!!! Aaaaaah sneaky anvil reference, I spy you 😉
Damn, your skills are incredible! Thank you again, I LOVE IT, and you!
Perhaps he’s afraid?”
“I am sitting right here,” Thorin growled, and his nephews both shrugged.
“Since you never talk about anything, we have to speculate,” Fíli pointed out with unassailable (and impertinent) logic.
Kili, Thorin and Fili (chp. 17)
Sansûkh by determamfidd
(AO3)
The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit – Teen/Mature – Bilbo
Baggins/Thorin Oakenshield, Gimli/Legolas Greenleaf
#Canon Add-on #Angst #Slow Build #Happy Ending #Dead Peanut
Gallery #Thorin POV #Neurodiversity #Epic #Incomplete
From a Hobbitkink prompt:
The battle was over, and Thorin Oakenshield awoke, naked and
shivering, in the Halls of his Ancestors.
The novelty of being dead fades quickly, and watching over
his companions soon fills him with grief and guilt. Oddly, a faint flicker of
hope arises in the form of his youngest kinsman, a Dwarf of Durin’s line with
bright red hair.
(Follows the story of the War of the Ring).
(Bagginshield, Gimli/Legolas) In which recovery takes
time, the dead members of the Company take to watching Gimli as though he’s a
soap opera, the living struggle with being left behind, Legolas is confused,
Khuzdul is abused, and Thorin is four feet and ten inches of guilt and anger.
(via quotablefanfiction)
!!!
I just blurted ‘NO WAY’ very loudly at my screen… so loudly that I woke up my my cat and she was so discombobulated that she fell off the couch
THAT IS STUPENDOUS. THAT IS HONESTLY – friend, I hope it’s ok that I’m posting this publically – I have to scream the names of two particular people, very loudly!
@fuckthisimgoingtoerebor!!! @heuristicdevice!!! RICKY AND HD, LOOK. oh my gosh, LOOK.
A fiery dwarrow yesterday, a fiery dwarrowdam today: Bomfrís, daughter of Bombur!
(Bomfrís is such a prickly freckly angel but I think her smile is even more astounding for it being the rarer)
OH WOW
OH MY ABSOLUTE WOW
HELLOOOO NOT-QUEEN OF EREBOR, OH MY GOSH SHE IS BEAUTIFUL
good god, no wonder the Stonehelm fell so damn fast…! SHE’S UTTERLY GLORIOUS. ohhhhh my gosh that smile! and lasdjhflsajh her COLOURS too, that brown and green and once again, your skill at eyes quite honestly stops my heart
hello there, my aggressive glorious awkward raven girl ❤ aaaah thank you SO SO MUCH. Thank you so so SO SO SO MUCH.
Aw Yiss 