Every time I’ve ever seen your dad, he’s either drinking wine or is about to.
Gimli to Legolas (probably)
Tag: thranduil
*mad cackling*
Thorin kills Azog the Defiler, but at the cost of his life. His nephews mourn, as Fili, blinded in one eye from his brush with death on Ravenhill, is crowned King Under the Mountain. He will see Erebor restored, and while some grumble at his freeness with the wealth of the mountain in aiding others, none will ever say that he might fall to gold sickness. Erebor will know peace, under him.
Meanwhile, Bard the Bowman heroically have his life fighting to save the people of Laketown, now Dale. Queen Sigrid is crowned, the eldest heir of Girion, and the daughter of the Dragonslayer. She is firm, and crafty, and any who doubt her soon gain a strong respect for her caring heart and quick mind. She is grieving for her father, and trying her best to raise her siblings after tragedy; but she is strong.
The Elvenking fought like a hurricane, but was overwhelmed by a swarm of orcs as he was thrown from his mount. His body was found hours after the battle, in a circle of mutilated orcs. His son, who has never been the type for politics, puts aside his joy in patrolling with the guard and takes up his father’s crown. Legolas Thranduilion is perhaps not the best of kings, but he is kind, well-liked, and will not lead his people astray
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Dets’ reaction: I DID, I DID ASK FOR THIS
augh yessss THE DELICIOUS DEVASTATION
SO: King George III Thranduil has a few words to say in light of these developments…..
Lyrics are the work of the fiendish @culturalrebel, and are here!
[THRANDUIL]
You say…the price of my peace is not a price that you’re willing to pay.
Insane! You cheat with that Hobbit.
Now my army’s encamped on the plains.
Why so blue?
I thought that we’d make some arrangements
When you went away.
Your will, mine to subdue!
Well, even despite our estrangement,
I’ve got a small query for you:
What comes next?
The Mountain’s freed.
Did you know gold would create such greed?
You’re on your own.
AWESOME! WOW!
Do you have a clue what happens now?
The Greenwood will rise.
Erebor will fall!
Don’t make this harder, Thorin: it’s your call.
All alone, starved and besieged.
When your brethren say they hate you.
Don’t come crawling back to me!
Da da da dat da dat da da da
Da ya da
Da da dat
Da da ya da…
You’re on your own.
Hi! I absolutley love Sansukh! I want to read it more than I want to read the actual books half the time. Everything about it kills me and I love it. I was just wondering, how did you come up with Legolas’s brothers? And um will we ever find out everyone’s dark names? (Especially the Ri Brothers and Dwalin cause I love all the dwarves but especially them and I think you already told us Kili’s so I don’t think I need to ask about him.)
Alaksjdfaljshdlasjdhfa THANK YOU SO MUCH NONNIE Oh my goodness, my face is scarlet.
Ahhhh okay! Well, the idea behind Legolas’ brothers was born out of a half-formed idea from an earlier one-shot fic, From One Age to Another. When I was writing Chapter 16? I think it is? of Sansukh, all of a sudden there they were, nearly fully-formed.
Plus, Legolas as a character is given some new dimensions when he is given more family members, because it gives him more relationships. And his brothers themselves roughly embody some possible Elven attitudes: Laindawar is aloof, disdainful and martial, a believer in Elven superiority of might. Laerophen is brilliant and learned and introverted, a (former!!!) believer in Elven superiority of intellect. There’s more to them than that, of course, and Legolas shares some of these beliefs at first. It has been interesting to play with how Thranduil’s own attitudes might have been adopted in different ways by THREE different offspring, rather than just the one. Resentment towards the other houses of the Elves, for example, or attitudes towards the other peoples of Middle-Earth.
It also makes Legolas the youngest of three, and I personally like that dynamic for him. He has a lightness and a recklessness and a… spontaneous gaiety in the books? If you know what I mean? He’s singing all the time, or making ridiculous pronouncements (”I go to find the sun!”) that feels less… responsible? Staid and sober? Than a Crown Prince would seem.
I feel like I am not putting this well!
I ALSO wanted a representative of the Wood-Elves at each place of battle, to be our Elven focal point. I consciously arranged it so that we would be able to see one of the sons of Thranduil in each location, their attitudes being challenged by whatever they confront. So, Laerophen at Erebor – the bookish, awkward outsider in a realm of Dwarves. Laindawar in Mirkwood – in his element, defending his home guerrilla-warfare style, but having to deal with pesky posh Galadhrim and a bloody Brown Wizard. And of course, Legolas at the epicentre of it all.
IDK, it happened and I ran with it! 🙂
Oh, dark names! I had fun with these! Yes, we have a list of them already! Here’s the list, and here’s the meanings of some of them! And here’s my dark-names tag for you!
(yep, I have done the whole Company, and so Dwalin’s name and the Ri Bros are there!)
the hobbit bts:
⇨ Billy Connolly about Lee PaceBilly Connolly is all of us.
I need to see Thranduil reunited with his wife in the grey Havens; so many emotions are needed rn, and just – he deserves to much better than this pain *I have a lot of Thrandy emotions, okay?*
*patpat* Oh, Thrandy. He’s tremendously closed-off, the way I write him. Proud, protective, solitary – and yes, very hurt.
But please remember too, Nonnie, that events have been intruding upon his cold solitude in a big way lately, thanks to this stupid war. He has discovered, once again, that he is still a part of the world… not only a part, but a powerful part. He can be an active force for good… if he can put aside old disputes.
(And he’s about to discover a truly shocking bit of news… one that might just jolt him out of his long, icy contemplation of his past pain and hurtle him straight into the present moment.)
Omg yeah the geography of M-E in the movies (LotR too) bothers me! Like in TTT Leggy says “The Uruks turn *north-east*!” Like you were chasing them from east to west and Isengard is not in north-east! (p.s. You can publish this publically, I don’t mind^^)
oh god yes that bit oh my godddd, Legolas. Isn’t there even a shot of them running into the sunset?!
i think that it’s now pretty much taken as read by the fandom as a whole that the Elves of Mirkwood are one of the following:
- permanently lost,
- always facing the wrong way,
- confused about these weird mortal compass-point names
- and/or terrible with directions
(It probably makes Thorin feel a little better about being directionally challenged, himself)
my fave option is 2 heheheh
Aw Yiss 