#ohsofa----

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Freya from @striving-artist‘s “Oh Son of A---“ https://archiveofourown.org/works/3822802/

A Hobbit fic which I binged in a week, and don’t regret it one bit. My little love letter to Frey is under the cut:

I just love her 💕💖💝💘💗💓 I never knew I needed a “modern girl in Middle Earth” fic, but I did. Without spoiling it all I can say is that she goes through a lot, and deserves a world. She is so sharp and brave and likable. And so multidimensional, the story and setup work so well in making you feel that. From the outside, from other characters’ POV, she’s legitimately a prophet with supernatural knowledge (real source of that knowledge notwithstanding), and she is a bit unhinged and feral, cause to survive wargs and giant spiders and worse things, she has to be. And the language barrier and resulting caveman-speech makes her seem simple, which is so effective that I, while reading, felt like my opinion of her was slightly influenced by that whenever she was trying to speak Westron.

And on the other hand, she’s sarcastic, she’s clever and thorough, she’s funny and optimistic, and doesn’t actually know what she’s doing a lot of the time, and is from another world and frame of reference than the people surrounding her. She’s all those things, and you know that depending on which of the characters you ask, you’ll get a different description of her.

The fic itself is a roller coaster, and sometimes the “everybody lives” tag is a blessing, and sometimes it’s a curse, because hell, this fic doesn’t even need to kill anyone to make you cry. I found it by browsing Bilbo/Thorin tag, and I stayed for Freya.

If you’re in the Hobbit/Lotr fandom at all, and you haven’t read it: I can’t recommend it enough.

[striving-artist]

ok. half edited and formatted. 

and may I just say: oof. 

[striving-artist]

so guys, I’m formatting sofa for print, and I’m moving all the language translations to bottom of the page footnotes, which, yay, that’s where I always wanted them anyway, but now I have a question. 

Do I need to do a translation every time? words like Nadad, or Uzbad, or Amad? At what point can I trust readers have them memorized? or is that answer never, and I need the footnote on every single one?

[striving-artist]

Oh Son Of A, 11?

Favorite thing about it? The language barrier. Hands down. I mean, it was the origin of the whole idea, but it was the gift that just kept giving. I could hide things in the lines people didn’t understand. I could let people be honest. I got to play with the way we learn language with broken grammar, and the way that she learned some of it wrong, so kept making the same mistake over and over. AND, getting to learn khuzdul so that they could say things that others didn’t know. 

[striving-artist]

Holy crap I love Frey. 

[striving-artist]

for a hobbit wip: jump

Thorin slashed through the torso of an orc on a warg with Orcrist, throwing the creature to the ground where another breath saw the orc dead. Tauriel leapt onto the back of the beast, driving a knife through its ear and jumping clear as it crashed into dirt.

From Oh Sofa----

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