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A quick drive-by LotR rec! This untitled ficlet by an anonymous author made me smile, so I wanted to share! Maglor & Aragorn have a difference of opinion about how much linguistic discussion is too much. :D
krait: a red-haired Elf with a blue star brooch (Maedhros)
I found these fun photos taken by an extra on the LOTR movie set while looking for something totally unrelated!

Gallery link here.
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More Legolas/Gimli recs to share! The sub-theme here is intercultural interaction. Or maybe it's outsider POV.

Six recs under the cut; various ratings )
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I am currently reading:

Blood of Elves, Andrzej Sapkowski
Promise of the Witch-King, RA Salvatore
Spock's World, Diane Duane

and currently rereading:

Return of the King, JRR Tolkien.



I'm at the "just started" stage on all of them, so not much to discuss yet, but I want to know what everybody else is reading and rereading!

LOTR recs

May. 5th, 2020 02:09 am
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LOTR recs, take two! These are mostly Aragorn-centric, gen and various pairings.

Gen recs below the cut. )

Slash and het recs below the cut. )

I was surprised to find no Aragorn/Arwen recs in my collection; past me apparently didn't find anything worth saving, but there must be lots of good fic out there. Please share if you have any!

LOTR Recs

Apr. 2nd, 2020 09:25 pm
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I'm still on an elf kick, and I bring recs! Lord of the Rings flavour, this time.

There are... a lot more... where these came from, so I'm going to try to do them in small batches, with a pairing or other element in common.

Five Recs, all Gimli&Legolas or Gimli/Legolas, below the cut. )
krait: a shirtless male elf reclining (Oglaf: hedonist)
I'm stuck on elves again. (This is a thing that happens to me periodically, I've learned. Although no, I haven't learned why it happens.) In the last month, I have:

* gone on a Forgotten Realms fanfic binge
* reread Salvatore's dark elf prequel trilogy (Homeland, Exile, & Soujourn)
* recced a bunch of Forgotten Realms fanfic
* started rereading Brust's Hawk
* purchased Vallista to follow it up with
* reread three Sidhe novels by Josepha Sherman
* read a bunch of LOTR fanfic
* watched 8 hours of LOTR films
* thought about going to the library for the LOTR books
* gone looking for my bootlegged Record of Lodoss War episodes

Oh, yeah, and

* acquired an elf-themed icon

So... send help?

And by help I definitely mean recs for elf-centric canons and fic. :D There must be things out there I haven't read yet! Save me from having to resort to Mercedes Lackey rereads, friends. :D

(As a side note, who has Sapkowski's Blood of Elves waiting in the to-be-read pile? Yeah, it's me! I've been meaning to pick up the Witcher novels for about a year now, before Netflix decided to make it a show; having elves in the title should bump it up the stack!)
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You know what? I have never had so strong a reaction to someone disrobing on screen as the one I have at the bit in Two Towers, where Aragorn at Helm's Deep is arming before the battle, still believing he's going to die with the Rohirrim on the walls. I just... Uhnf. I don't even have words. It makes me simultaneously want to pull on my own armour and pick up blade and join the hopeless defence as a comrade in arms, and kiss him like Arwen doesn't even exist, right there on the cavern floor with the remains of the Fellowship watching.
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You know what? I have never had so strong a reaction to someone disrobing on screen as the one I have at the bit in Two Towers, where Aragorn at Helm's Deep is arming before the battle, still believing he's going to die with the Rohirrim on the walls. I just... Uhnf. I don't even have words. It makes me simultaneously want to pull on my own armour and pick up blade and join the hopeless defence as a comrade in arms, and kiss him like Arwen doesn't even exist, right there on the cavern floor with the remains of the Fellowship watching.
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An Honest Man of Gondor, by Lullenny, has one of the most amazing outside-looking-in views on hobbits I've ever run across. She is one of the few authors I've read who does not treat hobbits as short Men, and who remembers that they are a species in their own right. Also, she uses another character's perspective to work her magic, which is always lovely.

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