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NancyBrooke
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 Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject: Osgiliath Fic |
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Can anyone recommend any good Battle of Osgiliath fic? You know, the fight before the dream ... broken bridge ... Boromir and Faramir swimming to safety ...
I need to do a bit on this for a story I'm writing and am having trouble imagining it. Thought some 'research' might help.
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GypsieRose
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Nancy,
I love Osgiliath fic and simply cannot fathom why there isn't more of it around. To me, it's the best chapter that Tolkien never wrote!
Here are two of my favorites, both based on the book version of events:
"Messages" by Shakes
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=743200
or http://www.henneth-annun.net/stories/chapter.cfm?STID=21
This story is a WIP, but it's reached the evening after the battle. It's by far the longest and most detailed Osgiliath account I've found. The battle sequences are very detailed and gritty. Much of the story is taken up with OC's, but they merge well with the canon characters. I really like the way Shakes writes both Boromir and Faramir.
"Brothers in Arms" by Grey-Eyed Athena
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1274454
More about the aftermath than about the battle itself. This author also writes both brothers very well, with a particularly sympathetic Boromir, and really captures the closeness between them. Denethor makes an appearance, and he's severe but by no means a monster. One unusual angle in this story that I like is the hunt for the mystery of what creature caused the panic in the battle. I find the ending somewhat weak--I see a hiccup in Faramir's characterization which bothers me because he's been so well-written in the rest of it--but I just love about 90% of the story.
If anybody has other recommendations for good Osgiliath fic, please send them along! I'd love to read more of it.
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GypsieRose
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Oh, and P.S. I take Boromir's statement that Faramir first had the dream on the "eve" of the battle to mean that he had it on the night before the battle--as in Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve or All Hallows Eve.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks so much for the suggestions. I'll check 'em out.
| GypsieRose wrote: | | Oh, and P.S. I take Boromir's statement that Faramir first had the dream on the "eve" of the battle to mean that he had it on the night before the battle--as in Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve or All Hallows Eve. |
Yes, that's what I'd always assumed too.
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