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Ellbee
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 Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:42 am Post subject: The NEW recommendation thread |
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How about we start a new thread for this. As Scribe pointed out, the other thread has gotten off track several times, and anyone who wanted recommendations would have to wade through about half a dozen different discussions. Worthy discussions, all of them, but maybe they should have separete threads.
So I'll start with the story I brought up before. It's actually a series of stories by Claudio: "How I Spent My Summer Vacation", "Home for the Holidays", and "From Rohan with Love". They are at http://imladris.nu/claudio/summervac1.html. And I'll tell you why I like them. They are , as I mentioned before, wildly AU and slashy in a nonsense type way, and they are absolutely hilarious. Elladan is an intelligent, self-centered, slightly anal college student who sometimes feels like the only sane person in an asylum full of people he loves. What I like the very most about it is that in spite of the over-the-top-ness of the whole thing, you still get a rather charming view of his relationship with (the mostly wasted and always irresponsible) Elrohir. I hope y'all will take a look at them. 
-Ell
Edit: Just corrected the URL, as indicated by sindohte. (Rob)
Oops. Thanks guys. -Ell
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sindohte
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Location: Rubbing up against an Elf
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 9:09 am Post subject: |
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Turns out that the link did not work b/c of a period at the end. The corrected URL is http://imladris.nu/claudio/summervac1.html
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ElizabethWyeth
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 9:20 am Post subject: |
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Yeah! Fic!
I'll go check this one out!
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Levade
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 2:38 pm Post subject: |
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Yay! Thanks for starting a new thread for this!
I like to think that if you want to promote good stories, you need to talk about the good (instead of complaining). So here are just a few ::snicker:: of my favourites. I love just about anything from goofy fluff that is written well, insanity with Balrogs, touching AU's that venture off to ideas Tolkien discarded and just about anything that has a well-written Glorfindel in it. 
I have more, but why flood the place... 
And, darnit...I think a few of them are only on HASA, in Beta form. But these, I can say I enjoyed, and I don't know that any of them get the kudos they deserve.
Levade
always on the prowl for a good story
Anticipation by LOTR lover
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=863270
A Glorfindel story. How much does a twice-born Balrog killer have to put up with, anyway?
Last Hope by AfterEver
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1450315
After Arathorn's death, Gilraen relocates to Rivendell; but adjusting to an elvish household
is a strange and difficult task. Features Elrond, Elladan, Elrohir & Aragorn.
Handful of Grey Ashes, Handful of Silver Tears
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1368822
He was hers once, and may yet be again, but for now he is only a child, and does not remember what once was. And reunions are rarely what we expect them to be.
Winter Solstice by LOTR lover
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1195554
Gilraen is trying to adapt to a new life in Imladris as Arathorn's widow and the single mother of a young son. Glorfindel is recovering from near-fatal wounds. When they meet at the Winter Solstice celebration, what will come of it?
The Elvish Way With All Good Beasts by Teanna
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1214845
What if "the elvish way" is something a young elf must learn the hard way...
Legolas story
The Prince and the Shipwright by Dragon Confused
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1258685
A young boy is sent to live with elves at the Havens. Young Gil-galad story. Main Characters: Ereinion, Cirdan, Fingon
The Littlest Balrog by Dragon Confused
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1334449
Or ‘Melkor’s Boys’. The Dark Lord has a very busy day looking after five cuddly little darlings. Well. . . almost little darlings. AU. Very very AU. Main characters: Melkor, Sauron, Gomig and various OBs. new Dinner time - Balrogling style!
A Great Ocean by Cirdan
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1156812
Elros and Gil-galad have had a fight, and even Elrond sides with Gil-galad. Elros feels miserable and chats with Cirdan.
The Lure of Taur na Rhun by Marnie
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1463496
Early in the Age of Stars Celeborn meets Treebeard for the first time, and, contrary as usual, feels the call of the East.
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ElizabethWyeth
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 2:55 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you Levade! A bunch of goodies for me to dig into!
Oh! And "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" was a riot. It took a second reading to really get to the point where I was truely into it. But I have it bookmarked forever now!!!!! What a riot!
E.W.
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Scribe
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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Good fics....hmmm depending on what you're into.
The Empty Vessel by ZeeDrippy Vessel (don't you just love that handle? I feel the need to imbibe some wild cocktail whenever I say it ) She's on this archive so I won't post the link.
Bagenders series by Lady Alyssa and Random Dent (my absolute favourite fan fic in the LOTR fandom)
http://bagenders.stormpages.com/
If you like smut and gratiutous helpings of it , Dolarabee's Laundry Day is very good.
I can't say that I read very much fan fic and that's the truth. Some of the poems in our Bombadil section have move me to tears
Help him by HazardousRaptor was brilliant as was Anglachel by Fileg. |
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ElizabethWyeth
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! "Help Him" was great. I was pretty moved by that one. still processing it, will need to reread it a couple more times.
E.W.
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Scribe
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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| ElizabethWyeth wrote: | Wow! "Help Him" was great. I was pretty moved by that one. still processing it, will need to reread it a couple more times.
E.W. |
It really was wasn't it, I mean I can't write poetry for anything. I can do just about anything but not that and that was so heart stabbingly poignant, I really felt sorry for the bugger. |
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Ariel
Joined: 24 Apr 2003
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Scribe wrote: | | If you like smut and gratiutous helpings of it , Dolarabee's Laundry Day is very good. |
Can I ask a silly question? Was that the fic that had a gun in it? I got to that part and just really felt lost. Could someone explain that to me? Or am I thinking of another fic entirely?
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 8:22 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, there's a gun in it.
The headers clearly explain - or so I thought - and the category in which the fic is placed should also kind of give a good indication that this fic is a crossover. The other fandom it's crossed with has guns. Granted, besides explaining why this story came about, there isn't much other details but that's why I set the type of this story to 'PWP?'. I really didn't think I overly used anything specific to The Magnificent Seven universe besides its Old West setting so the fic could be easily followed by someone not familiar with it. But should questions arise, I guess I figured the reader would come to me or run a quick search on Google about the other universe they've decided to have a glimpse in. I know that's what I'd do.
I hope this helps, Ariel.
do.
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Ariel
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| Posted: Sat Sep 13, 2003 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, thanks, Do....
It was a very hot fic but that was the part that threw me - I know I read the header, but I don't know anything about 'Magnificent Seven' so I was puzzled. I suppose that would be about the same reaction someone else would have reading one of the smut fics from my AU without knowing anything about the harem.
BTW, if anyone here has read any of those fics and wasn't sure what was going on, one of our girls wrote a LOVELY 'How Frodo's Harem Came Into Being' fic called "Beyond the White Towers" - it's G, by Igraine and just lovely! http://www.frodosharem.org/cgi-bin/stories/display.cgi?id=213&sort=date&cat=1 I probably like it much more than many others would because that AU suits me to a 'T' but it does offer a lovely explanation of why the AU might be so compelling to some.
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daw
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| Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 10:47 am Post subject: |
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"Small Soldiers" is a wonderful, single-chapter story about young Faramir by Corri Lannam:
http://www.henneth-annun.net/members/works/chapter.cfm?STID=1498
That's the HASA link. The story is at ff.net too but I can't search there right now because the link is down. The story is so well written that I can't begin to tell you. It is worked around an image of toy soldiers. |
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Dragon
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Just some really obscure stories that I liked, that I do not think anyone else will mention. I've got a long recommendation list on my website, so I do not think there is much point replicating the obvious ones here.
In the Fire of the Sun by alena
Story about Eöl after he throws the posioned javelin at Aredhel. It is fairly obscure, but is a really really good story. It's written from Eöl's point of view, and is very effective!
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=810500
Mists of Beleriand by Silmarien
I think that this is here too, but it's my favourite of all the little Ereinion stories and is so very cute without being typecast or anything.
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=1322121
The Gift by Ithilwen of Himring
Young Maedhros and father Feanor and it's really well done and extremely sad without making either of them bad.
http://www.fanfiction.net/read.php?storyid=802757
Hmm... they're all Silmarillion ones. Maybe I'll dig up some LoTR ones later. |
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| Ariel wrote: | | It was a very hot fic but that was the part that threw me |
No worries, Ariel. And thanks for the compliment!
do.
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Viv
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2003 8:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I feel a little silly, because you've all probably already read this gem, but KhazarKhum has posted The Cursed Queen of Angmar here. Don't let the multiple chapters fool you: it reads blindingly fast. There isn't an extra word in it; the writing is that tight. Who would've guessed that a story about the witch-king of Angmar and his cursed bride could be so spectacular? But it truly is. |
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