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Eruanna
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 Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:36 pm Post subject: Re: The border boys! |
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| Alassante wrote: | | Eruanna wrote: |
But look further into the Silm and Lays of Beleriand, and you will lose your heart to Beleg and Mablung, also marchwards! You Haldir, Rumil and Orophin fans owe it to yourselves! Reading the Lays will have you falling in love with these two tragic beauties (no spoilers here...)  Gosh, just the way Tolkien describes Beleg will take your breath away.
--Eruanna |
You should read Inglor's story about Galadriel and Beleg. Very interesting... |
The great descriptions of Beleg (maybe even hotter than Haldir!) Cuthalion in Lays of the Children of Hurin from "The Lays of Beleriand." Just the majesty of JRRTs poetry is so wonderful and vivid to the mind's eye! I fell for Beleg...and hard, too!  He must have been the best "lay" in Beleriand!
I've read Inglor's Beleg-as-boytoy-to-Galadriel and found it very entertaining  . I saw Artanis as more Nerwen--a manmaiden. She'd have the carnel appetites and drives of a man.
It all made sense in Inglor's tale. This, however, is not my take on Cuthalion...one of the Two Captains.
--Eruanna
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JayofLasgalen
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Location: Devon, England
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: Re: The border boys! |
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| SpaceWeavil wrote: | For instance, I never write 'practical joker' twins, as that's not what I personally read into the text. I'm more of the 'serious, orc-killing, went off to avenge their mother and helped defeat Sauron' school.  |
The twins are my favourite characters to write as well. Tolkien gives them an intriguing background to start with, but I write them as children as well as adults. I see them as lively elflings, but never idiot pranksters, and having the responsibility of being the Lord's sons, and heirs to Imladris.
I also write about a close bond between them, but their occasional desire to be individuals, *not* just 'one of the twins'.
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Eyborg
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Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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| ArtanisOrangeBlossom wrote: |  Hey now...the dwarves need lovin' too! |
Amen to that! |
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Viv
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| Posted: Wed Feb 23, 2005 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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| ArtanisOrangeBlossom wrote: | | Hey now...the dwarves need lovin' too! |
All this support for dwarf-fic is making me very very happy. |
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Viv
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | Hmmm.... hobbitsmut from Viv?? I think I might die in a puddle  I'd be happy to be your voice coach |
Squee! There's such *good* hobbit stuff out there (yours, particularly). I don't even know where I'd start. But this is such a generous offer... |
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ArtanisOrangeBlossom
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LOL hmm..*thinks* Eyeborg...Viv...pm me. *grins*  |
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paranoidangel
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Location: Britain
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There's quite a few characters I like to write about really.
Firstly, there's Frodo and Sam. I think it's the great friendship between them I love. And of all the races in Middle-earth theyr're the most like us, which makes the research easier
Then there's Elrond, although usually he's best when interacting with his family (Celebrian, the twins, Arwen) and I include Aragorn in that family.
OK, that quite a few was a lie. it starts off as one or two but I'm often interested in them interating with others, which expands the list a bit.
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NancyBrooke
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| Monarch Snake wrote: | | Boromir (Much History, Much Personality, but Misunderstood) |
*Sigh* not if you’ve been reading my stories  , as you should be … 
| krazykat wrote: | | Reason i like to write about Rohan and Eomer = want the story to continue. |
Ah-Ahah-Ahah! I said that, too, in the "why do we write fanfic" thread and nobody commented ... Validation!!
| Alassante wrote: | | Okay I love to write about two characters: Eomer and Elrohir For some reason when I write about them, they write themselves with very little effort. |
Now, not to pick ... but I don't get how one can distinguish from Tolkien's work between Elladan and Elrohir. Why prefer one over the other?
| Eyborg wrote: | | Hey, how do you think dwarves reproduce? Test tubes? LOL! |
Yes … little mithril ones …
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SpaceWeavil
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| NancyBrooke wrote: |
| Alassante wrote: | | Okay I love to write about two characters: Eomer and Elrohir For some reason when I write about them, they write themselves with very little effort. |
Now, not to pick ... but I don't get how one can distinguish from Tolkien's work between Elladan and Elrohir. Why prefer one over the other?
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One of the reasons I tend to write Elrond stories pre-twins is that I usually have trouble keeping track of which one's which. 'Tale of the Sixth Age' is a nightmare at the moment and I'm cursing my urge to have Elves in leather (which is what prompted the twins being in that fic in the first place).
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sofia
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For me it is Legolas, Elladan, and Elrohir.
Mainly because for Legolas we barely know anything about him so its always fun to make stuff up when writing about him. And for the twins their mentioned but they don't really have a big part, in my opinion, and just like Legolas its fun to make stuff up.
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TrissMarigold
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In one of my stories (not posted anywhere yet) I'm writing Eomer and Theodred and enjoy it immensly, especially Theodred, because he gives so many possibilities. I can invent a huge part of him. Bad thing is - he won't live long. It's hard -or rather impossible- to write a story about them spanning centuries. That's why i'm currently very much interested in the Blue Wizards - here we've got even more place for imagination.
Can't forget about Glorfindel. He always was my favorite character. There is so little about his personal life, we need to write more about it ... I love the way Zimraphel portrays him in her stories.
| Quote: | | Hey now...the dwarves need lovin' too! |
And don't forget the Ents! |
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Eyborg
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Location: Reykjavík, Iceland
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| NancyBrooke wrote: | | Eyborg wrote: | | Hey, how do you think dwarves reproduce? Test tubes? LOL! |
Yes … little mithril ones … |
Eek! That gives me some weird images in my head of Aulë creating the dwarves in some creepy sci-fi way... 
TrissMarigold: Oh yes, the Ents! Yes of course! Well, there's a bunny.  |
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JayofLasgalen
Joined: 16 Aug 2003
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Location: Devon, England
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:21 am Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: |
Now, not to pick ... but I don't get how one can distinguish from Tolkien's work between Elladan and Elrohir. Why prefer one over the other?
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From what Tolkien said about the twins, you can't distinguish them. But since I've been writing them (and reading other fics with them) they seem quite different. There's a lot of similarities of course, but they have different characteristics and personalities. My favourite is Elrohir, though I like Elladan as well!
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Alassante
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:19 am Post subject: |
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| NancyBrooke wrote: |
| Alassante wrote: | | Okay I love to write about two characters: Eomer and Elrohir For some reason when I write about them, they write themselves with very little effort. |
Now, not to pick ... but I don't get how one can distinguish from Tolkien's work between Elladan and Elrohir. Why prefer one over the other? |
It started with my first story involving the twins. I gave each a certain personality. I have always stuck with it. I guess I could change and make Elladan have the personality that I have imagined Elrohir to have but it just seems kinda set in my mind which one is which.
| TrissMarigold wrote: | In one of my stories (not posted anywhere yet) I'm writing Eomer and Theodred and enjoy it immensly, especially Theodred, because he gives so many possibilities. I can invent a huge part of him. Bad thing is - he won't live long. It's hard -or rather impossible- to write a story about them spanning centuries. That's why i'm currently very much interested in the Blue Wizards - here we've got even more place for imagination.
Can't forget about Glorfindel. He always was my favorite character. There is so little about his personal life, we need to write more about it ... I love the way Zimraphel portrays him in her stories.
| Quote: | | Hey now...the dwarves need lovin' too! |
And don't forget the Ents! |
Ents? That would be a hard story to write but it would unique. Maybe Treebeard can find his ent wife.
I currently am posting a story about Eomer and one chapter is about Theodred. In my mind I was seeing the actor that played him (when Eomer finds him on the beach before he died not when he was all icky and dead) as far as his description. I don't know where I got the personality from. It just kinda happened and it might be totally opposite of the way he is portrayed by others.
GhettoElleth has a great story called Circle of Hands and Glorfindel is the main hottie but the twins, Haldir, Orophin, Rumil, etc are all there as well. And no, this is not a story of a Mary Sue that all of these men fall in love with her - they are just involed in her life like many people are involved in our life on a normal non-romantic way. It is a great story that involves many characters but they are in their enviroment more than in hers. What I mean is, when she goes to Rivendell the Rivendell elves are there rather than them always being around her. The story is more of a adventure/drama/romance but the whole story is not based on the romance. But Glorfindel is portrayed very well. I was not a Glorfindel fanatic before the story but I am now.
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TrissMarigold
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| Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Alassante, you sure know how to make me happy . Letting me know about good stories with Glorfindel in them  ... thank you! I'll check your story as well Now, to the stories. |
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