still alive, more or less; why Aragorn is (and isn't) sexy
Real life sucks. Especially in the winter when you cannot sail. I was going to rant about various things that have kept me in LJ exile, but now that I've written the above few sentences, I think that pretty much says it all, and the details would only be boring. But I'm back, and I missed you guys, much! It will take me a little while to get caught
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Now to go read my flist back to like skip=300 and figure out at least a vague idea of what I've been missing in all of your lives...
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As to the absence, it was quit cold turkey or not at all, and not at all wasn't an option these past few weeks. The withdrawal symptoms were terrible, though, let me tell you!
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I also fell for Strider *hardcore* when I read the books for the first time (age ten? eleven?). He was my absolute favoritest thing about Fellowship. And yeah, he's soooo much cooler as the Ranger, mysterious and alone and so capable it hurts, than when he gets dragged off to be responsible and be king.
Mind you, I think the movies do a pretty good job of making his ascent to kingship *noble*, but hot it isn't. Damnit.
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Ohhh! *licks your gorgeous, sexy description* "...mysterious and alone and so capable it hurts..." Aieeeeee. That is it, exactly. And another early Strider fan, hurray. My father was a LOTR junkie (my mom actually made him a t-shirt with runes on it, back in the day, though they're not fannish at all) and started me on the series early.
Mind you, I think the movies do a pretty good job of making his ascent to kingship *noble*, but hot it isn't. Damnit.
Amen. :)
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As near as I can figure out, it was set up as a response to all those anonymous fandom deathmatch journals...and I think it friended people who were mentioned in or friended by the various deathmatch LJ's in the hopes that they (i.e., you *g*) would want to participate in voting the fandom bnfdeathmatch Lj's off the island. :)
Personally? I'm just ignoring it. *g*
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Hee hee, you zeroed in on the addendum to this post that I didn't write out, but thought about. :)
Yes, despite my ranting and raving and exaggerating wildly in search of a point, I totally agree that there are all kinds of compelling stories to be written about being king. Theoden's a great example. What you need for a story is movement and change, so what happens to Theoden, who has his power taken away, is given it back, and then must prove once more that he is entitled to it, is a classic one. And in that kind of story, where there is a struggle, and the mysteries are back, the sexiness comes back too.
Maybe it's because Theoden's story is about *being* king rather than *becoming* king? I think you have it there exactly. Theoden's "being king" story is a sort I like very much, an adult story about losing what you have worked for during your life and fighting to get it back. But Aragorn' ( ... )
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I would be ALL OVER that.
Most especially if the forest were Mirkwood, and he hooked up with an old friend there, and....
Er.
But even without the slashy goodness, it would rock.
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Most especially if the forest were Mirkwood, and he hooked up with an old friend there, and....
Er.
Heh. LOTR makes me a teeny bit twitchy slash-wise, because I read it so young - that childhood-innocence thing.
Except that somehow that fact didn't stop me from thinking, as I was walking home today after posting that reply, "What if when Aragorn heads for the hills, he takes Faramir *with* him..."
Mirkwood, hmm? Help! I'm being despoiled!
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