So. A guy who calls himself “Lord of Gifts” has a big workshop in a land full of holly where he tells a bunch of elves to make cool objects. Later he travels around the world dropping off these cool things as presents for people who he thinks show potential.
I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I choose to believe it would work if I could think about it long enough.
SANTATAR
He sees you when you’re sleeping And he knows when you’re awake He knows you’ve kept the Three from him Give them up now for goodness sake
the first time Sauron tried to create a banner for himself went very wrong. a dark lord he may be, an artist he is not. Melkor gets banished to the couch that day
I’m trying to decide whether he’d try to use the ring himself, or if he’d scoff and consider it inferior workmanship, therefore being the only person TOO ambitious for the ring to control
oh, most of the Hobbit4Ham stuff is the work of the inestimable @culturalrebel. She submits the amazingness to me, and I publish it.
She made a ‘You’ll be Back’ version from Thranduil’s POV which is absolutely goddamn delightful (so delightful I had to sing it!!!) but we haven’t tried a Sauron or Saruman one! Perhaps we should, that’s a great idea!
AWW WAIT WHAT, I made you feel sorry for Sauron and not Mahal?! WHOOPS, author fail, whoooooops!!! 😀
eeep, yeah, the Sam moment, with the ‘I didn’t leave him’ – that was something I’ve wanted to write for AGES. So. Yep. *dodges the flying vegetables*
OOOH I am thrilled you liked the quiet little moment with Thorin and his decision about his beard! For such a short and unobtrusive little scene, it’s actually the culmination of a LOT of character threads and development, and lots of stuff that came before… like, a physical indication of just how far he has come, it’s actually a hugely big moment, wrapped up in a very small and gentle one 🙂
Hrera is my darling Queen of the Universe and I adore her lots.
HEHEHE, I am so happy you liked the letters, thank you! Thank you for a lovely comment and a lovely review, Nonnie!
okay when I started this series I sort of assumed sauron did not actually have fans
i hadn’t been on the internet long enough, apparently
is a Maia of Aulë; that never ends well
has as many names as Túrin Turambar without the excuse of being an angsty teenager
tortures finrod’s backup singers to death in his dungeons
sinks a continent with the socratic method
sends out the werewolves one by one to fight Lúthien what
for that matter why couldn’t he figure out who finrod is without the torture? how many blonde Elven princes were there in Beleriand at the time?
there were two. finrod and orodreth. and tbh if you can’t figure out whether the Elf who just challenged you to a song duel is Finrod or Orodreth then you don’t deserve to be Melkor’s right hand
oh, yeah, chief lieutenant of the embodiment of evil there’s a case that that is problematic
Aw Yiss 