Oh no! That's so upsetting, poor pip! I'm so sorry for your loss! Pippin's adventures will be sorely missed!

Micro dosage of story! Accept your fate! Hurrah!

I feel like I should judge you a bit simply because lotr is 90% of my childhood (totally not because I still play the shi outta lotro... totally not.) But I also understand where the struggle exists because reading the books is like that for me. If you ever get the patience, you should try at least

Parent-worldbuilder multiclass but lord forbid if I can manage a second properly named oc for the world XD so I guess there's some designer characteristics in there too. Yay me

I don't know about your area, but I know my local computer repair place charges 50 dollars, not including any parts that they need to order for the repair. But I don't know if that's just the small mom'n'pop shop price or is a decent price you can expect of other places.

Speaking of your shop, are we going to see any restocks of the keychains and standees of the two of you?