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SilverMoonLady
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 Goody!
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Ariel
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| Quote: | | Well, I must say I agree with her, in general and in specifics:) Perfection is boring:) |
Hear! Hear! Yes, do recruit her, Eyborg - there are LOTS of good hobbit smuts that we can recommend to someone new come to the field. There may not be many, in the grand scheme of things, but over the past 4 years, I have collected most of them. 
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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 I'm still trying to read all the goodies on your list, my dear:)))
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Ariel
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Oh, that reminds me! I have an absolutely sizzling Merry fic for you, but the author hasn't sent it to me and the archive it was on vanished one day! You've reminded me to send her another reminder!
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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*big cheezy grin* Hmmmm... fresh fic:)
Bring it on... and bring her here!
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Ariel
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Well, I've reminded this gal a couple of times that I wanted her fic and she's been a bit absent minded. Heck, if someone, out of the BLUE, wrote me a letter and said 'I love this story of yours. Could you send me a copy of it?' I'd be falling all over myself to get it to them! Oh, well, everyone is not me.
Tell you what, if this gal never does send this story to me, I may just write something similar. It was a great tale - sexy, smoltering and heart wrenching. It was worth a look.
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Eyborg
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:48 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, a Merry smut story???  What was it about? (Apart from the smut?) |
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SilverMoonLady
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmmmmm... sexy, smoldering AND heartwrenching? Gotta have that!
Yeah... I think I'd be flattered to the moon and back... maybe she's left the fandom..
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Ariel
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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It was about his meeting with his soon to be wife, though it wasn't Estella. Though it was well written enough that you didn't care (and it very well could have been about Estella).
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Eyborg
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| Ariel wrote: | | It was about his meeting with his soon to be wife, though it wasn't Estella. Though it was well written enough that you didn't care (and it very well could have been about Estella). |
Ahhh. So it was like, an AU fic? |
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Ariel
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| Posted: Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but that was the only AU thing about it.
I've emailed the gal, hopefully she has found the fic and can send it along. Really it is worth seeing.
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GypsieRose
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| SilverMoonLady wrote: | | The Men and Elves in ME are much 'bigger' than we are; they are heroic and superhuman, compared to us, due to circumstance and their own nature. |
Welllll...not all the Men. Barliman Butterbur seems quite "life-sized," for instance, as does Ioreth, annoying as she is. Even Beregond has points the average person can identify with, I think--a soldier with a kid to care for, fond of horses but doesn't get to see them much in the city, eventually faced with the dilemma of whether to disobey orders in order to save a life. And Strider doesn't seem terribly remote to me, except in the sense of being somewhat emotionally closed-off; it's only when he starts to morph into Aragorn that the language really distances us from him.
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SilverMoonLady
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OH, I didn't mean that I couldn't relate to the Men of ME (I actually find them quite interesting and noteworthy in oh so many ways  ), just that in hobbits I find my own little point of view reflected and expressed most often 
It is certain that not all of ME Men are heroic, in fact I'm sure most of them were not (in the "grand" sense), save in their own small human ways (just like the hobbits).
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Viv
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:28 am Post subject: |
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| Ariel wrote: | | *Ariel caves* |
Woot!
| Quote: | I did notice something rather interesting about Space Weavil's statistics though - note how though hobbit fics make up only part of the 10% of 'other' fics in terms of number of reads, they make up a full 20% of the fics in the highest votes. That tells me that though there aren't many hobbit fics, the ones that are here are pretty highly thought of.
That's an encouraging thought.
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Now you mention it, I think you're right. Hobbitfic on OSA is like Silmfic on OSA: not a lot of it, but pretty much all of the ones I've read have been above-average. I just sort of figured all hobbitfic was better. No? |
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Ariel
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| Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 11:39 am Post subject: |
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| Viv wrote: | | I just sort of figured all hobbitfic was better. No? |
*Ariel refuses to answer on the grounds that it may serve to prove that she is a canon snob and expects far more of 'her folk' than she usually gets.*
Actually, I think it is more a case of the quality of the hobbit authors you've managed to attract to OSA. On the whole, we probably have as many good and bad authors as any other group.
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