[FallingIntoStrangers]

...Oaky, just hear me out...

What with all the "modern 20th century girl/boy thrust into M.E. and/or Tolkine character thrust into Modern 20th Century Earth stories out there, I am surprised no one has done this... or that I have seen...:

What if:

Our world as it is, is the world that is in the future of Middle Earth? Imagine that you went to school learning about Frodo and the Ring of Doom, as your history, and there are Holidays celebrating it, and Minas Tirith is a place you go on Field Trips, but Dwarves, Elves and Hobbits are in the past, and only Men inhabit M.E.? Imagine a world just like ours, same techonologu and idiosyncracies, but our style of dress and architecture and way of life is deeply rooted in that of Gondor, instead of ancient Rome and Greece as ours is? Imagine a world where the Government has programs to find proof of Valinor, or to recover archaelogical artifacts of historical significance? Imagine that the State Museum houses the clothing Frodo wore the day he destroyed the ring, Sams Red book is in a display case, Aragorns Crown is protected as tightly as the Tower of London?

Imagine that world.... Our world, where Lord of the Rings is NOT fiction, but our history and we live with reminders of it every single day, every single moment?

Now go forth and write...

It can be any kind of story.... Done in any style... Long or short, funny or serious.... Ficlet or epic...

If you bring any Tolkien characters into it, it cannot be any of the Hobbits, or Men, or Arwen, or anyone that died in any of Tolkiens books.... Bringing Gandalf/Olorin into it would be really appreciated.... cuz I worship him.... heh heh....

Anyhoo, I am talking too long... I will now go back to nursing my poor toe.... and wondering why I like this Franz Ferdinand band so much.....

Just do whatever you want with this idea... just trying to give a little bit of inspiration in case anyone has run out of ideas....

[FallingIntoStrangers]

Oh and also, I am looking for some really good Aragorn ficcies' any recommendations?

Also, I must add that there needs to be more Aragorn ficcies... but that's just because I can't help fantasizing about Viggo...

But hey, we are all guilty of that...aren't we...

anyone...anyone...?

Slinks into the corner.... sheepishly

[DarkElfChilde]

mmm...Viggo.

I like him, but not as much as Orlando...Mr. elf boy...haha




- DEC

[DarkElfChilde]

Oh and I like the idea of yours.

I was thinking of something like this, but very different.

[FallingIntoStrangers]

Heeeee.... yer funny.... Okay, yes, Orli has a certain I want to shag him into teh ground in a gleeful way quality to him.... but... mmmmm.... Viggo is older and ...fwah........

[SecretKeeper]

You have read my mind...ish...I mean I wanted to write something like that for a long time! By Eru....you're awesome! *squeals in delight*


Ok...can re-incarnation be brought into it......hm....that may work.....Oh by Eru....that's awesomnosity! *




Try going to Devaeriel's site or even Krystallin's can be found on Devaeriel's Domain....awesome fics. Not sure I should be all promotional about it though...

[FallingIntoStrangers]

Awwwwwwwww You are too sweet for words!

yeh you can do some reincarnation if ya want...

Like I said pretty much anything can go... I just hoped that someone would write a 20th century story set IN 20th Century M.E. I mean, cuz how does their society progress thousands, or tens of thousands of years down the road...? I have alweays wondered that... Would they have developed like we did? Renaissance into Industrial Revolution into Space Age?

Kinda makes ya think don't it...? Heeeeeeee...!!!!!

Now back to my regularly scheduled lusting of Gerard Butler!!!

[SecretKeeper]

Well looking at the movies, Saruman was on the right track. He did say in the films (give or take): "The forests will be cleared away and burned to make way for industry..."

He was on the right track there...I think the fourth age was one of industry, renaissance and such. Hmm....wanna help me write a fic on those ideas? Me and thinking about collaborations...ehh....hmm.....let's think.

Say it was the year 1982 in the Age of Stars a.k.a. the Seventeenth Age, scientists of Middle-earth find a 'black hole' in space. Said black hole was a dark abyss of a sort holding great heaps of energy and really close to Arda. One of these scientists, Benjamin Burkely, a well respected and to do man is pulled into an adventure concerning said black hole by twelve others and the elusive Mr. Grey, a powerful, mysterious and most of the time meddling old scientist. That in itself is based off on the adventures of THE HOBBIT and by the time that's over and done with, a new dark age begins fifteen years later...ish.

Edit: Gerard Butler is an amazing Tenor. Man and that red outfit during the Masquerade sequence...*drools*

[Eyborg]

Hahaha... actually this bunny is something I've been thinking about writing about myself!
My idea about a "modern" Middle Earth is something like this:
Gondor is something like modern Southern Europe. In Minas Tirith, we have cafés and pizza stands on every corner.
Rohan would probably be something like Northern or Mid-Europe.
They might possibly still have a King (or a Queen) in Rohan, but probably a president in Gondor!
In the Shire, the Harfoot hobbits have disappeared underground and are (almost) never seen, but the Fallowhides (Tooks, Brandybucks and those) have mixed with the humans, so the Shire is only inhabited by humans now...
The elves, of course, have all left (and those who didn't leave have faded into nature somehow), and the dwarves are hiding somewhere...
My bunny is possibly about a Gondorian girl who studies at the university of Minas Tirith, and who gets to know a Rohirrim guy who runs business in Edoras (which is now a large, modern town... think Oslo or something like that). They drive together to the Shire, where they meet another girl who lives at the Brandywine, is human, but with distant hobbit ancestors (possibly Merry & Pip).
Wild, eh? BTW would this be considered an A/U bunny?

[SpaceWeavil]

Weird, but this was something I was thinking about writing recently as well, after a friend and I had a weird conversation about elves, and if Middle Earth (and all its races) had actually evolved into a modern day society, what sort of TV would elves watch. (No idea what got us started on that topic). But it spiralled off into a discussion about what sort of programmes the Hobbits would prefer (and we concluded something like Coronation Street, probably, as well as cookery / gardening programmes. We ended up with a sort of Hobbit-produced 'Ground Force' ), and it went on from there.

It's an interesting thought, a modern ME. But yeah, I think it would have to be AU, wouldn't it?

[VanatheEverYoung]

Sounds awesome, Eyborg! Can you imagine modern humans (even who knew about Middle-earth) meeting Tom Bombadil in the Old Forest? I wonder ... if these people remember a lot from Middle-earth (Let's not go illogical and say they remember everything), then do you suppose Gandalf would come back for visits to the Shire? Are there statues of Frodo and Sam in Minas Tirith? Do school children take field trips to Pelennor Fields to see where Merry and Eowyn killed the Witch-king?

This is a great plot bunny!!!! I wanna read it!!!

If you decide to write this story, I can give you some info on where certain things would be located (Yes, actual quotes from Tolkien himself). Oh, and yes, it would most definately be AU.

[Viv]

I've sort of written something similar, going on the assumption that in our modern world we're just too oblivious to notice all the fantastical stuff going on right under our noses. Elves are lounge singers and linguistics professors; dwarves still live in mountains but now carry shotguns. Etc. Not quite your idea, but it might feed your bunny. Title is Dawn Twilight.

[Sorcia]

Viv, any chance on a new chapter on that fic soon? Its really great!
Cheers

[FallingIntoStrangers]

i think all your ideas are fabulous and i totally encourage you all to write your ideas... in any form....

I really look forward to reading them....

Oh and I see how theres fanfics like one site is all kinds of fanfic and the others are indicidual types (such as a Buffy fanfic site)... I see how theres sites for LOTR and Pirates of the Carribean and Harry potter, etc... I think someone shoudl make one for Phantom of the opera now that it seems to be shooting up in popularity.... I really want to write a POTO fanfic, but I know I would go the cheesy route and do a MAry sue... only because I want to imagine Gerard Butler taking off my stockings with his teeth...


hee hee hee..........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SpaceWeavil]