#river running

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[dwellordream]

To make it clearer, lets say in your genderswapped Ned/Cat fic when civil war breaks out, Benjen and maybe Kit are dead. Is the North willing to unite behind Robb Tully with no adult male Starks around? Do they take a different approach than independence?

So in a scenario where the civil war starts for roughly the same reasons, I think the Riverlands are invaded, the North comes down to help (and possibly rescue hostages from King’s Landing, if there’s Starks or Tullys held at court), and I do not think this leads into a ‘King in the North’ scene! I think this leads into a ‘well, fuck the Lannisters, we’re definitely not kneeling to them, but *maybe* we’ll kneel to Stannis!’ scenario. I just cannot see most of the northern lords, even if they felt impressed with a Robb Tully born of a Stark mother, jumping to declaring him their king. Depending on whether Eddara is alive and well with her son, I think she’s arguing strongly that they need to get into communication with Stannis and see what his plans are. He had not officially declared his intent to seek the throne at that point, but I don’t think he’s going to rebuff their allegiance, either. It was also not necessarily widely known at that time that Joffrey was 100% not Robert’s son, but if Stannis presents his proof/claims I think the Tullys are convinced and default to supporting him as king. 

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[vintagerpg]

Another one of a pile of MERP books that I once owned, sold, then hunted down again only to find that I wasn’t really missing anything. Well, except that awesome Larry Elmore cover. Aside of the maybe-a-Palantir, nothing about it seems particularly Tolkien (probably exacerbated by Elmore’s inextricable D&D-ness to my eyes), but I am a sucker for a werewolf, and that is a mighty fine werewolf.

River Running is a square-bound adventure book that came out in 1992, toward the end of the initial iteration of MERP. It is a collection of loosely connected adventures set in the rustic wine country called the Land of Maidens, to the east of the Lonely Mountain. There’s nothing super interesting about the adventures – they are all variations of exterminator work. This one you kills some orcs, that one a werewolf, this one a dragon.

Shrug. At least the cover is cool.

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[dwellordream]

🗝️, 💡You're my river running high

When I wrote it I was thinking I needed to destress from writing But The Wolf which was the first one of my ASOIAF fics to ever get a ton of attention and critique and it was stressing me out a lot so I wanted to write something low key and fluffy, and that was basically my motivation too haha.

[dwellordream]

You're my river running high??

1. Robb being betrothed to a girl nicknamed Nell with a pink sigil was pretty heavy-handed foreshadowing on my part for Haunt/Hunt.

2. Alayne has three children with Robert Page, and ultimately as she learns the truth of her origins an adult, those children are named Kit, Ned, and Lysa. 3. Sansa weds into the Mallisters, and Arya into the Blackwoods. 4. Kit eventually winds up as some ruler’s Hand, potentially? 5. Bran marries into the North, possibly to Eddara Tallhart, which is kind of funny given his mother is also an Eddara.

[thedwarrowscholar]

Hello! I was wondering, is there a Khuzdul name for River Running? And, considering it flows out from a dwarven realm, do you think it could be possible that, etymologically, the Khuzdul name for the river is NOT a translation of "Running", but is something else, for example Gate Stream, Whiterapid, or Lonely Mountain River?

Well met!

Unlike the Sindarin name Celduin - which simply means “large flowing river” from “cell” (adj. “running, flowing”) + “duin” (“big and large river”), a meaning we also see used in “river Running”, the word for the river Running in Dwarvish is “Aklah'ân”, meaning “Source River”.

Stunning art “The Front Gate” by  Alan Lee (In which we see the river Running)..

It is likely the word here finds its origin in the fact that Halls of Erebor were built upon, around and even far beneath the source of the river, to eventually pour out of the Front Gate of the Lonely Mountain. The river source thus was so prominent in Erebor, that it simply became known as “The Source River”.

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The Dwarrow Scholar

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EFFECTive River Running Tactics

EFFECTive River Running Tactics

Looking back on my introduction to paddling on moving water, the extent of my tactical knowledge was based purely on ‘looking where I wanted to go’, developing my technical skills and progressing onto more difficult rivers. This approach soon put me in positions looking at eddies I want to be in as I flew past them! As technical proficiency and just ‘looking where I wanted to go’ wasn’t always…

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