Of Elves, Dwarves and Updates

So something that writing my current little Lord of the Rings AU has done is remind me just how different the movies are from the books. I'd already known about a good deal of those differences myself so I wasn't too worried about it really, but this writing project has shown me just how many people only know the movies and not the books.

The most common thing I've seen is: why didn't the elves/dwarves help more?

The fact is, they did.

The dwarves fought heavily in the north alongside men from the Kingdom of Dale, during one of the biggest battles Dain, King Under the Mountain (remember him from the third Hobbit movie?) dies alongside Bard's grandson King Brand. In addition the dwarves sent a force of fighters to Minas Tirith to help hold the city against Sauron's army during the siege. Interestingly, there are seven dwarf clans total and at least one of these (possibly as many as four of the clans) fought on the side of Sauron in the war.

As for the elves, both Lothlorien and Mirkwood were attacked by Sauron and while the elves appear to be removed and distant in the movies they actually fight a series of brutal battles against Sauron's forces in the north (alongside men and dwarves), eventually assaulting and destroying their fortress at Dol Guldur and driving Sauron and his allies out of the north entirely (even Thranduil in all his magnificent asinine glory fights in these battles alongside Galadriel and her husband Celeborn).

The movies (for obvious screentime and storytelling reasons) do not go into this northern war ever, and admittedly the books do not go into much detail either, but they do mention the battles and Gandalf even speaks of the death of Dain, saying that while it is tragic that he passed, that he died as impressive a warrior as when he'd been much younger (Dain was over 200 when he died).

There are of course numerous other differences but that one is the most mentioned I've seen so I figured I might as well mention it.

Now for something else entirely.

I've posted a few different things in the past couple days and apparently people aren't getting updates(?) of these postings.

Can you guys confirm/deny whether you're seeing updates from me please so I can figure out if it's an isolated thing or widespread?

Also I'm unable to view who faves my work which is kinda annoying.

If it is a bigger problem I will bug the help desk and see what they can say about it.