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I haven’t heard the originals, no, but I’ll check them out when I get the chance!

Here, I’ll make it easier for you :3

A lovely lullaby the author’s mother used to sing to her, her grandmother to her mother, etc. Now she sings it to her daughter. It’s mostly wordless, with just two voices, very soothing.

The other songs were written to fit in the “Sansûkh” ‘verse. (It’s an amazing story, very long, stock-full of character development, in which Thorin and the other Dwarves who died in The Hobbit and prior watch (over) the Fellowship in general and Gimli in particular. It’s super long – 500,000 words and counting – but worth every minute of reading. It’s Gimli/Legolas, well-written, so respectful of canon you won’t know what’s Tolkien and what’s Determamfidd (the author), and the Dwarf culture is extensive and inclusive and amazing. Anyway.)

  • Broadbeam cradle song, choral version. The Broadbeams are a Dwarf clan. It’s gentle, feels a little sad, reminds me of Russian folk songs. The solo version is here.
  • Gimli’s Jig, played on the violin (because she also plays multiple instruments. Yep.)
  • The Iron Hills Soldier’s Song, choral version. That’s the original of the song I posted :o) Seriously one of my very favourites.
  • And my very favourite, Light on the Horizon, which is not only choral but also orchestral! The lyrics are beautiful, the build-up is awesome, and the melody and arrangements will sweep you off your feet and right into Middle-earth. What I wouldn’t give to hear this will a full orchestra and choir!!

Anyway, there you go :o)

*falls off my chair* okay I am trying not to cry, thank you SO much, seriously thank you thank you SO SO MUCH SO SO SO MUCH

Well since everyone else is sharing their faves, I’ll do it too^^ (though you already know my faves) Baris and Bani, cutest lesbians ever, own my lesbian ass and heart <3

(hey erina!! *hugs and hugs and HUUUGS*)

I’ve fallen into doing this thing now, where I describe how the character would react to being told that they were your fave, i guess 🙂 I’ve done Baris, but here is our impatient, unobservant, clever-klutz Bani 😀

She’d probably open and close her mouth a couple of times, before she made this face:

and then she’d say, “thanks, but honestly, you should meet my girlfriend.”

Baris with her nervous nature and inventive mind, And Bomfris with her ‘take no prisoners’ approach to absolutely everything…except when it comes to Stonehelm, then she’s as adorably shy as her sister I just love those two so much

AHH THANK YOU *SCREAMS* HELLO YES THANK YOU, AHHHH MY POLAR OPPOSITE SISTERS THANK YOU SO SO MUCH i love these girls, GOD do I love them

Baris, with her mindbending talent and creativity, and crushingly insecure nature would at first think that you were paying her voice a compliment. She’s accustomed to that, and would be gracious and polished as she accepted it. 

Then she’d realise that no, it’s not exactly her staggering voice that you’re commenting upon, but her – her as a whole person, and her whole face would flush red as a tomato, all the way down her neck. Her practised poise would shatter in an instant, and she’d shuffle and look at her feet, her hands clasping over her smile to hide it, her eyes squeezing tight… and oh, how she would blush and beam and stammer into her hands! 

Bomfris would think you were making fun of her. She honestly would. She’d be all: “Right, you wanna go then?” and she’d be rolling up her sleeves even before you could have explained that no, you’re sincere, promise! 

Then she’d frown in confusion, and look at you suspiciously. “Are you sure?”

You’d have to reassure her once again that yes, you honestly think she’s pretty danged cool.

Then, just like flipping a switch, she’d change utterly from attack to FRIEND! At a loss for words, she’d throw her arms out and yell ‘Aaaaah!’ and you would be crushed in the most graceless and uncoordinated hug EVER – and probably the most enthusiastic also, because when Bomfris loves someone, she loves them COMPLETELY AND FEROCIOUSLY.  

Since we all seem to be taking turns with this- as awesome as Hrera, Orla and Dwerís are… snarky, brilliant, fierce, mithril-precious Narvi is everything to me. (pls publish this heartfelt statement Dets)

*heart eyes* AWW RIPPY hey there, friend ❤

Narvi would grunt in answer, fully preoccupied with what she is working upon. She’s always busy with something, and she’s nearly there… nearly… there… if she just adjusts this cog, then perhaps.. ach, no. All right, back from the beginning…

Later on (much, much later on), she would look up from her work and blink her sore eyes, and say very loudly and in some amount of shock: “Wait, what was that you said?!”

(Your every gift would be a miracle of engineering genius from that day on.)

Hey! I have a question if that’s ok?? I was rereading through the awesomeness that is sansukh and I saw in one part thorin was yelling that thranduil will ask for the white gems next. Does this mean in sansukh canon bilbo never gave them to thranduil after botfa, like he did in the book? Or was thorin still getting used to being dead that he didn’t know bilbo gave the elf king them? Thanks!! (I love your writing so much)

Hey Nonnie! 

Bilbo did NOT give Thranduil the white gems in the book – the white gems (and their background story etc etc) are an invention of the movies. 

All the book says is that the Elvenking is fond of white gems. 

Bilbo gave the Elvenking a silver and pearl necklace, actually, one that Dain had gifted to him 🙂

(Thorin didn’t know, and that is probably for the best, lmao)

Hey I was wondering if you could help me for this: in the hobbit, when passing through the Misty Mountains, the company kills the Great Goblin of Goblin-town and I was wondering who replaced the leader afterwards?

Hey Nonnie! 

Welp, I did a little digging, and Tolkien Gateway reckons that the goblins under the Great Goblin were only a sub-section of the Orcs of the Misty Mountains.

so it’s probable that they ended up at the Battle of Five Armies under the leadership of Bolg 🙂 

You know, this is probably kind of morbid, but I can’t keep off thinking about scene in DoS where Thorin and Co run into a chamber full of dwarven corpses. And the bodies look like porcelain dolls. And I’ve been thinking ever since, what if dwarves do turn back into stone after their death? that’s why they have to be burried inside mountain, that’s why Burnings after Azanulbizar were such a tragedy – they couldn’t return back to stone Mahal made them from.

AHH NONNIE – you’ve put your finger on one of my own headcanons!

I use this idea in Sansukh! We know from the Silmarilion that the elves believe that the dwarves ‘return to the earth and stone of which they were made’ (though in context this is sorta derogatory and suggests that Elves believe dwarves have no souls)

anyway, when I read that phrase i sorta gasped a bit – and then went slightly worldbuildery bonkers.  

So, the fic is peppered with phrases like ‘returned to the stone’ or ‘sleeps in stone’, and it’s not just figurative. 

We see skeletons in Moria, so I though ‘BONES OF STONE, BODIES OF EARTH PERHAPS?  Or maybe even dust?’ IDK, but it is such a great and slightly alien, nonhuman sort of concept aaaaaaaaaah 

Do you think the peanut gallery would have followed the Company’s journey to Erebor the way they follow the Fellowship? Without being able to influence them of course, but taking it in turns to watch over them?

Hey there Nonnie!

They didn’t watch in the same organised, scheduled manner as they have over the Fellowship. They didn’t really take turns, there was no roster, etc. That particular rota system was set up in response to the threat of the Ring War – and because Thorin couldn’t do it all on his own. 

(remember, he had to pass out in Gimlin-zaram before he finally accepted the necessity of it, lmao)

But yes, the peanut gallery did watch the Erebor Quest, absolutely, though it was in a disorganised, scattered and individual fashion. I’ve answered some questions before on who watched, and when!

here

here

here

and here!