Jun 3, 2017
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Original, demonio
serenova reblogged your post Sometimes I really want to find more T... and added:
I feel you! I love LoTR and all the associated stuff, but sometimes I just want to be like “this fiction gave me...
hagane cosplay replied to your post: Sometimes I really want to find more T...
I’m not too surprised; the Tolkien fandom is very complex. Some people are VERY militant about canon, in a way that makes some of the arguments I’ve seen over video games look like nothing.
demmond replied to your post: Sometimes I really want to find more T...
Dude. I’m a HUGE LOTR fan! Spew away!!!
dangerbooze replied to your post: Sometimes I really want to find more T...
Yo~ Come vent to me. I love Tolkien fandom people who are stuck in a rut. I’m stuck as well with my fanfic that’s Tolkien universe based.
YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOU’RE UNLEASHING.
Most of the time I’m pretty good at putting together my thoughts into meta posts and I do fic recs which helps vent off some of my feelings, but sometimes that’s also just NOT ENOUGH, especially when a fic really sticks with me. I’m still thinking about And What Happened After by arrogantemu, because it achieved so much more than I was beginning to think possible: A Feanorian rebodiement fic that actually does justice to the idea! And not just the Feanorians, but the Hobbits and the world and what it means to heal in this world. That the ending of the book was lovely but it didn’t really show the actual healing part, given all that the characters had been through, especially those affected by the One Ring. (Spoilers for the fic beyond this point!) One of the things that especially impressed me was the conversation between Frodo and Celebrimbor, about how spending that much time with that spirit, having felt it so deeply, you couldn’t... you couldn’t hate it/hime and nobody else could really understand that. The idea that someone else understood that, it allowed such a great weight off both their shoulders, that they didn’t have to try to justify it or try to force themselves to not feel the way they did. It was magnificent the way the fic included that! But also. Holy shit, Feanor and Manwe sitting at the same dinner table!!! And the utterly huge significance of that (and their conversation!!!) was done justice! And how I wish the fic had been another 70k because I’m so sad that we never got to see more of the reunions. I wanted to see more focus on Nerdanel seeing her children again for the first time! I wanted to see Maedhros’ journey to accepting that the Oath had been lifted off him and readjusting to the world! I wanted to see Maedhros and Elrond’s reunion! More emphasis on Elrond and Maglor’s reunion! I wanted desperately to see how Feanor and Galadriel were/weren’t getting along these days! And Feanor’s reunions with his sons--!! HOW DID ALL OF THOSE GO??? I can’t stop thinking about this fic send help. ;__; /end spoilers
Currently, I’m also reading A Game of Chess by Altariel, which is post-ROTK Faramir/Eowyn fic where it’s not a perfect marriage and they’re having a lot of difficulties because Faramir has the LOTR equivalent of PTSD and it’s so good. Like, I would have expected to be all huffy about HOW DARE YOU SULLY MY PERFECT FAIRY TALE WEDDING except the author does such an engaging job that I’m sucked right in. And the thing is that I feel for everyone in this fic, that every time I start feeling swayed to one side or the other, the other pov comes along and I 100% understand how they got there and what they’re going through. I’m enjoying it because there are no villains here, there are people Dealing With Shit and not being able to be perfect all the time, but at their cores are wholly good people who love each other more than anything. It’s gorgeous and I want all the Faramir/Eowyn fic in the world, especially if it gives them thorny issues to work through, as they both have wrapped up in their characters in canon already. I also read Twilight by Melina, which is another post-ROTK fic, centered on Legolas and I desperately need people to read it because it’s so, so incredibly perfect to my views of the character and what he does/where he goes after canon. The friendship with Aragorn and how the losses of his mortal friends hurts so terribly but he accepts it and knew he made this choice. The reunions with his parents in Aman. The reason why he went to Ithilien is spot on--after all that fighting, he needed to help heal something, to work on something with his own hands. And wanting to be close to his mortal friends while he had them, it makes sense. Arwen’s grief that could be felt through his pov, the whole cast of characters (except Celeborn, I missed him ;__; ) being there and feeling the sense of connection between them all, I just really need to share feelings about this fic. Also, as always, I’m having pining Sindar feelings. I just want so many wee bb!Thranduil fics in Doriath where Uncle Thingol (I haven’t decided if it’s on Oropher’s side or Thranduil’s mother’s side, but you’ll tear the headcanon of them being kin from my cold dead hands) totally dotes on the stoic-faced child who is far too serious for his own good even at such a young age. /cries about Elf feelings